Here are some pictures from our last 2 weeks - This first one is of Andrew and Gaia in the back yard - is that true love in Gaia's eyes, or what?!!Andrew and David made some great chocolate chip cookies last week - at least David put chocolate chips in his half. Andrew made some that were just plain dough (and just plain delicious, I might add), and some with cut up Kit Kats. He's a pretty creative cook.
They used the recipe from the back of the Toll House package, which is more involved than you might think - they don't sell Toll House chocolate chips here in Edmonton (and the recipe on the back of the chips they do sell just isn't as good!) so I had to write Danette so send us the "real" recipe from the States. Couldn't do without that!!
We got a compost bin last weekend. I'm amazed at how much kitchen waste we create every week that can go in the bin. To think of all the water and electricity we were wasting on the dispos-all. It feels good now to put that garbage to good use. 
Here you can see our first little layer of compost - ready to "cook"!Finally, check out the growth in our little garden - you can compare this picture below to the one below that, and see that the plants are actually growing! (As you can see, I'm new to this, and don't have a lot of faith in the process yet.)
There are a lot of holes in some of the rhubarb and raspberry leaves, and I really don't want to use any pesticides, so we'll have to see if the caterpillars, or whatever it is we're feeding out there, leave enough behind for us to get some fruit and veggies when it's all said and done. I'll keep you posted!!
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