It's a slow news day. Ruben and I are both back to work, so posts might be slower to appear. My major activity Monday was baking muffins using rhubarb from the garden. And chia seeds as an egg replacer. I can't find ground flaxseed here, which is weird, but I can find chia seeds (I simply MUST have my vegetarian-sourced omega-3s). I'm getting sorted (that's a kiwism) regarding my limited kitchen. That's improving my mood immensely. The flowers are loving all the rain we've had lately and Rosalie's daisies are blooming. So I brought some inside.

Speaking of Rosalie's yard, did I mention that she has two chickens?

Henny and Penny

This morning Rosalie gave me two pretty brown eggs courtesy of these girls. I was tempted to make an omelet for dinner, but R has issues with breakfast food for dinner. So I guess that will wait for the weekend.

We are really enjoying Gore. If the gym was a little better (not enough cardio classes) I could live here. Ruben loves that he can bike to work in 5 minutes (downhill on the way there), see people he's met at church or at the bike shop, and have morning and afternoon tea breaks. He comes home for lunch, so I get to clean up after his breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Awesome.

In a few minutes I'll take off to hopefully meet some runners in a parking lot (this is my favorite thing to do). Finding said runners has been tricky, as I've been sent from person to person to person, but I think today's lead sounds promising. Word is folks from the group are recovering from the Kepler Challenge, a 60K trail race in Te Anu, held 1 Dec. Promising! Today is 11 Dec--10 days is plenty of rest!