Breakfast in the Bag

Today was a special day, I had breakfast. Well with the amount of food, let's be real and call it brunch!

I don't know if any of you doesn't know about this easy way to have a group of people have brunch all at the same time and to their own liking.

First you chopped-up all kind of food people would like in an omelet. We had celery, onions (fried and raw), peppers (red, yellow and orange), bacon, and mushrooms.

You boiled water in a big pot.

Meanwhile everyone break 1 or 2 eggs in a plastic identified freezer bag and scrambled them.

You added couple of spoon of milk. Then added what ever items you would like.

Remove the air from the bag and sealed the bag.

Once the water is boiling, deposit the bags in the pot. Constantly stirred the bags so that no bag get stuck on the side.

After 11 to 13 minutes removed the bags. Cut with scissor and your personnel omelet will just fall into your plate. All you need after is potatoes, more bacon and baked beans.

No need for butter, it's very healthy, everyone food is ready at the same time and it's fun!

Mium Mium

Coffee Break

One thing about me, I'm a creature of habits. I am a coffee drinker, I need that percolator beverage to boost my brain in the morning.

However, I don't just drink any flavor. For a long time, I've been drinking Raspberry chocolate flavor. One day at the cafeteria, my flavor was not available so I tried something named “cream of Caramel”. I enjoyed it so much that I switch right then and there. This love affair has been going on for over 10 years.

At home the only place I could find my flavor was at a fresh produce store. The store closed about 3 months ago. My life has been hell ever seen, I can't find my flavor any where. Believe me, I'm checking every time I see a coffee store. But so far no luck. 

Last week I went to one place that was only a coffee store, when I talked to the owner, he was kind of insult that I asked for a flavor coffee, he lecture me about how they were making flavor coffee and all the wrong thing with it.

I just thank him but I didn't care , I NEED MY CREAM OF CARAMEL'S COFFEE.

It's funny as I'm writing this post on the radio they are saying today is coffee day!

Life can be so difficult at time, don't you think so?

Party Animals

Three weeks ago, a couple a few doors down invited all of us to a bake-in-the-sand beans party. I thought the chance of the party happening were as slim as bears moving in the campground (but bears happened)... you see in our part of the world, the end of September means rain, cold and more rain. This is not the type of weather when you can have a fire outside all day long to bake beans outside.

Saturday was the day of the party. It was gorgeous! no cloud and warm, just to show you, I'm not a weather forecaster, I don't mind to be wrong once in a while!

In the afternoon, the hosts were not home for a little while and I decided to play a joke on them. I buried a can of baked beans in their sand.

All afternoon, every time I see the beans-baker-extraordinaire, I would tell them that we should do a taste test to see if the beans were getting ready. I would also tell them I smelt a little burn, maybe we should dig them out to make sure every thing was fine.

Around 4:30 PM the beans were dig out of their sand trap. I told the hosts that I wasn't sure about the beans and I cooked my own batch and then I dig out MY can of beans. LOL

We all had a great time and this event really mark the end of our summer social until their is another reason to have a party...

WAIT yesterday was blood moon, what did we do? We had a party to celebrate this phenomena. Two party two day in a row at the end of September, just outstanding!

Did you watch the moon last night? 

 

Care bear

So many things happening so little time... I'm just back from a trip to Quebec city, I'll be posting about that next week.

I'm a chronologically oriented person so I'll post today about the events of last week and further down, I'll be doing a lot of catching up for a while, hopefully every thing get back to slow city for a while (but it doesn't look that way)!

If you read my post on the thirteen, we had visitors, 3 bears decided to take residence in our campground. Those were not care bears nor berenstain bears, they were 2 cubs and their mother, which was only a teenager herself. Maybe at this point, I should talk about family planning and safe sex but I don't know much about bear's sexuality, so I'll just gone not say anything else on that matter!

The games warden were call. They showed up with 2 trucks and ONE cage. After a while they decided to setup the cage hoping that the cubs would go in and not be heavy enough to trigger the door and then their mother will follow and get caught.

They didn't had food for the bear, they picked in their own lunch bag to provided a meal to attracted the bears in the cage. By the time the wardens left, it was around supper time, the street where they had set the cage was blocked by a plastic fence but other than that nothing secure.

Around 9:30 PM, I heard a big noise, I knew that the cage was now occupied, it was dark and I didn't go to see what had been caught, I'm chicken that way LOL

Early in the morning, slowly I looked up and sure enough, there was 2 cubs in the cage and the mother was outside, keeping an eyes on her kids. So the plan didn't work!

When the wardens came back, they decided to release the cubs across in the mountain. It's about 5 KM (3 Miles) from the camping ground. Apparently the mother can smell her cubs within 10 KM.

Now I had my doubt about that, this whole family moved in where there was no food but just 500 feet down was the all-you-can-eat-buffet, also known as the garbage can of the camping.

The day after the cubs where removed, one person said that he saw either a bear or a dog... I guess he didn't had a 20/20 sight. But since then no more sighing of this un-welcome family!

Not an happy Mama!

 The cage is below the 10 Sign on the left. You can see one of the cub inside.

They are out there

Last week, I decided to do what a few other men before me did... I conquered fire!

This require flints, some dried tinder, and kindling on top. That is if you are a cave men. I had a lighter, paper and wood, so much easier!

This is not really an event as I live in a camping. But whenever the fire is light, friends come to share stories, wine and the heat.

The days are getting shorter, I didn't really notice until that night. After a while one couple left, then by the time the last couple went back to their own cave trailer, I looked at the time: 9:00 PM and it was pitch dark.

I looked up and the sky was illuminate by so many stars, I could even see the milky way. What a grandiose show! we are so thinly in this universe. For years I didn't look up at night, I forgot all about those celestial bodies that we can enjoy for almost anywhere. Tonight if the sky is clear, just take a few minutes and look up; They are out there! 

 

The Hard Way

Do you ever feel trap because you can't achieve your goals, here what might be a solution...

Bear with me

Sometimes going to the garbage bin can be soooo exciting!

After souper, I put my shoes on, took the garbage bag and proceed to go to the garbage bin which are located at the front of the camping ground.

It's about a 10 minutes walk, so I can do that while completely lost in my thoughts!

Suddenly I heard a strange noise coming from a very near pine tree. I looked up and there is 2 bears climbing it. I was so shocked! A few seconds before, I could have walk right by them and end up being their evening meals.

I walked back home, dropped the garbage bags back in the home, grab my camera and went to get few shots otherwise no one would ever believe me. See what the extend of being credible make me do, risk my life and all (ok a little dramatic).

I went around and warned everyone to be careful if they go out. What did everyone do? They also grab their camera and started shooting the bears.

Now I'm safely home, I'm looking at my fireplace, it would be so nice to have a bear skin laying in front of it, don't you think so?

This is Mom

This is the baby