A guy came around the other day selling pictures of the houses in our area. He’s a pilot and took the pictures from the air last autumn. He probably managed to sell a few pictures to the neighbours because they turned out well. This is a picture of our house from the northwest.

We had our first ever pig roast this weekend, and because of how successful it was, we hope to make it an annual event. The weather was beautiful for the entire day.

The roast was done cuban style and couldn’t have been easier to cook. I had to modify the pig holder because I couldn’t find aluminum mesh at Home Depot. I used steel mesh and rebar for the main part of the holder. It rusts easily, but also cleans up easily with some steel wool.

Oscar, the pig, was 63 pounds butchered weight and was bought from Beeton Meats. Thanks to everyone for bringing food and to Blair and Larissa for helping out.

Here are a couple of pictures of the roaster empty and then with Oscar cooking on it:

And here is Oscar getting ready for marination:

Here and here are refreshing posts (the former anyways) on some of the quackery that I put up with at work.

Warning: Do not chop wood while wearing open-toed flip flops. But which person in their right mind would do that anyway?

We’ve been busy with work, still getting over our coughs, and getting ready for a pig roast that we’re going to be holding this weekend.

Here are Blair and Larissa at their place on Blair’s birthday:

This is Lana and Reto visiting at our place on their honeymoon here:

And this is the Girl outside of the Canon theatre in Toronto after the last show of Martin Short’s new comedy, Fame Becomes Me. What a great show that was. It’s off to Chicago and then Broadway after.