Cape Breton Homemaker

Have you ever been to Cape Breton? If you have, you probably noticed that we have our own interesting way of speaking. Ok, well maybe not all of us but many of us use some interesting sayings to get our point across.  Even though Damon spent some summers as a child in Cape Breton, when these sayings come out of my mouth he can't help but chuckle. A really great chuckle. I'm glad that the way I talk is so funny to him. The most recent one that he heard come from me is "I fuckin' near piled 'er b'y" It was the first warm day here in Saskatchewan and we were outside cleaning the truck. I stepped on a spot of ice and I fuckin' near piled 'er b'y. Now, Damon understood what I meant because he saw it happen but later asked me where it came from. I almost fell, what did that have to do with a pile? Well, I almost fell into a pile. Simple. Right? Apparently not.

My house produces A LOT of garbage. I can't understand it, we are just 2 people. We don't eat a lot of packaged food. Yet, somehow we produce a lot of trash. For a while I didn't really notice it because I don't always take out the trash. But Hubby has been a little busier at work so I've been doing the trash a bit more than I normally would. And Holy Cow. There is just so much. I haven't told my Damon yet but I've made it my mission to cut down on our production of trash and I've started doing my research. I feel like he might find out when this post goes live. haha . Obviously I know that I should be taking reusable bags for groceries and such but I'm usually running out the door at the point that I remember them. I've decided to make it a priority, when I get the coolers ready to go to town for groceries I will also get the cloth bags ready and put them with the coolers. I have told him that I want to buy a giant thing of dish soap and ...

Hey there people! As the title of this post suggests, I'm going to tell you about the thing in my life that makes me the absolute happiest. The thing that makes me happiest is likely not what you would expect... I love my husband and my family, and they all make me happy. I love my pets and my home. I like to cook and hike and bake things and do all kinds of other exciting things. But the thing that makes me the happiest is strapping my booted feet onto a rigid board and propelling myself down a snow covered hill. On top of Ol' Smokey Snowboarding... Snowboarding is the thing in this world that makes me the happiest. Everything else in the world disappears when I'm strapped onto that thing. Now, I'm good at it, I'm not great. I can get from the top of the hill to the bottom without and issues, and I can do a little bit of showing off while getting there; but I cannot land a jump. I can certainly hit the jump, absolutely cannot land it. I know that th...