Day 5 of February

It's Sunday and I'm looking forward to Monday so I can relax. What a busy weekend. Friday I won a contest on the radio and I received $50.00 gas card and tickets to see the "Stampeders." Now if you're not from Calgary, and or Alberta, and or Canada - you might be wondering what the heck 'THEY" are. And if your not older than 50, you might be thinking "why would someone go and see a football team? Well the Stampeders are a Calgary band from back in "my" day of Junior High/High School. And what a band there were. Go to you tube and "Sweet City Woman" and that might bring back some memories. So the band was playing at the Deerfoot Inn and Casino. We had excellent seats - third row from the front. Considering how old these three guys are now, and how out of shape two of them are, they did a fantastic job - amazing guitar playing or as the drunk behind us said "they make those guitars dance!" I was able to contain myself in my chair for the first half of the show but when they got to Sweet City Woman, I was on the floor (thankfully we were next to the aisle and I wasn't blocking anyone) and feeling the music. At the end of the show, the line up for meeting and getting autographs was right in front of my chair - so I decided to be a great younger sister. I stood in line for a guitar pick for my sister. I asked Ronnie if he would sell me a guitar pick and he just gave me one from his pocket. Nothing fancy, but it can be added to Robin's collection (which I started for her) It was after 1:00 a.m. when we got home - thanks to the lovely road conditions and our "non-spring like weather" that I predicted - NOT.
Sunday, we headed to the Home and Garden Show (again with tickets I won on the radio) It was crowded-- Did I mention it was crowded? It was a blessing and a curse going with Bill - the curse being - he talked me out of buying everything - the blessing - he talked me out of buying everything. Bill had a good point, if you came away with one good point from the show, it was worth it (being free tickets and all) I learned that you can use parchment paper for cooking as well as baking. You just wet your paper and line any pan with it. You can also buy parchment bags for cooking - and then they are compostable. (Anything that helps my cooking is a bonus)
So later afternoon, we stopped at Peter's Drive-in for a late/early lunch supper. I love their vanilla milk shakes.
Have received text - messages from the kids and they are both alive - that's all I need to know (for now).
I hope to do a blog on Tuesday evening with some exciting news. Stay tuned!!!
Stacey