Easter...sadly there were no gatherings planned on either side of the family soooo....I planned my own...My parents were nice enough to drive all the way to Winnipeg and pick up my grandma & grandpa Klassen as well as Laura! Grandma & grandpa Baldwin were also invited and never having been to our new home they followed mom & dad to town. Of course Dave & Char along with Charlie and Davien made it out too! We were very lucky that they all found a safe route to make it out to our island with all of the flooding going on! We had a wonderful huge lunch with ham, meatballs, veggies, scalloped potatoes, salads, and a very wonderful cheesecake for dessert. For Faspa(light supper) we had toasted cheese & salami buns, chips, and leftover ham!
Check out this picture...typical...Laura showing off her favorite food...mom looking over in disgust wondering where she went wrong...and dad's encouraging laugh egging us on.
Monday, Monday...
This morning began with a bang! I was a tiny bit slower getting up and getting ready for work...still on time though as I always aim to be 15min early for work so no biggy if I'm only 10min early! I got stuck behind every slow-assed old person driving 10km/hr...who by the way were ALL out early this morning (election day). When I got to work I began to make dough....a very large batch of dough so as to start fresh for today! The water/yeast mixture was bubbling away and it was time to add the flour and mix 'er up. BANG...BANG....ahhhh hit the stop button...the dough hook slid off....How is that possible? I tried to put it back on but it just kept sliding off. My boss came out of the walk-in to see what was going on and tried to help me. The hook had been causing us problems all week...we decided to try some duct tape :)... We thought it worked...the hook was staying on...and sitting straight...Press START. One swirl, two swirl, threeeeeeee ahhhhh dough flying everywhere BANG! Press STOP!
(this picture doesn't do the mess justice...plus the meat slicer is half in the way...but you get the idea)The hook slid off again...great now what...try putting it back on again....Uh Oh...or not. We broke it in half....lol oops...now what? Well we had to dump that large batch of unmixed dough liquid...it filled a giant garbage can...one of those ones that you wheel to the street with several bags of garbage in it...yeah. We remembered that we had a whisk attachment and started again....great idea up until all the dough clumped INTO the whisk and refused to be mixed...sigh...guess I'm mixing by hand today! What a workout....That should count as my 30min of daily exercise for today! Luckily my boss had ordered a new hook on saturday and guess what!? It arrived this afternoon...phew....Good thing cause I was not looking forward to mixing by hand tomorrow!
Yep broken...giant solid piece of metal...just like that! We're pretty lucky that nothing flew out and hit us!
Yep broken...giant solid piece of metal...just like that! We're pretty lucky that nothing flew out and hit us!