The Trucker

As I was typing the previous post I got a call from James. He is enroute to Manitoba, but wanted to stop by Hanley for some sustenance. He figured he should make it about supper time and wanted to make sure I would be cooking enough.

Hey, no problem there, I'll just throw another potato in the pot and we'll have lots for supper. Actually as it normally goes, we'll probably have lots for left-overs for tomorrow as well. The origial plan was to cook up some Drake sausage, scalloped potaotes, niblet corn and a few perogies. Now I'll just throw in a few more perogies and and an extra helping of sour scream and I know that the meal will stretch for the 3 (or 4) of us.

James is supposed to be in Macgregor, Manitoba by tomorrow morning. According to trusty old 'Streets and Trips' that is only a 650 km trip and should only take about 7 hours to get there. The roads in the south should be good shape. It was so warm today I thought I saw Shar-Lee out sunbathing in her backyard today on 'Google Earth'. At least the pic on her blog today showed just a lovely day in the south country. Of course James won't be travelling into the 'banana belt' of Weyburn, but the weather report for the south part of the province did sound darn nice for November 16th.

Speaking of the date, of course it is Shar-Lee's birthday today - 'Happy Birthday Shar-Lee !!!'. Now she probably can't remember back that many years (early ahlzheimer's setting in you know), but in 1974 the temperatures in Saskatoon were very similar to what we had today. There was only a skif of snow around and rather nice temperatures. So in reality, this is about normal temperatures for this time of the year.

Now I'd better 'publish' this and get out to the kitchen and rattle the pots and pans or we'll have an unhappy trucker coming by.