Our last Easter get together this year

Thanks for joining us on our journey of North America
 in our Holiday Rambler, since August 2006

Where are we today ?

New Hamburg Ontario

        Wore us out again yesterday, I slept even later this morning, like 7:15 a.m. wow! Its been years since I slept that long. Maybe because it was so cold and we have not put our comforter on the bed yet, just snuggle keeping warm, not wanting to get out of bed and turn the heat up. The comforter will go on tonight for sure. We must be healthy we have cold we noses, kinda reminds me of Eskimos, at least we don't have any snow.

        I missed the sunrise this morning and kinda screwed me all up. What to do?  Ok juice, a coffee, compute a bit, but have to take a trip to Pettigrew's Garage in town to talk to Dale our A-1 Mechanic. Just need a bit of service then take our coach for an emissions test. (required every two years in Ontario) Another government money grab!

        Back home I got the leftover ham out and trimmed it down  to the bone then put into a huge pot and simmer for a few hours to get a nice broth going  for the soup. Sandy will keep and eye on it then shut it down after a while. Oh it just smells so wonderful wish I could take a picture of the smell !

large Ham bone

         Now the plan today was to  get together at my mother's in Waterloo with my sister Louise and her husband, and brother Chris and his wife. Today worked for us because Sis and I are both retired but our baby brother  is (18 years younger) is still in the work force and Monday and Tuesdays are his days off.

Ma, looking good

Me baby sister and Paul

our baby brother and Sheri

         They all travelled a couple hours to visit, us we are only 20 minutes away.  So to make things easy for us we decided to keep it simple and ordered in a family favourite, Swiss Chalet Chicken. This in all about the visit not about the food today and we did have a great time. Chin wagging and catching up is always fun to do. A nice size group just 7 of us but at least we could all socialize and enjoy each others company.

        Shortly after 4 we all packed up and headed our separate ways back home, promising to get together sometime this summer. We will bring our house with us and stop by.

        Back home again, I took our simmered soup broth bones and de boned the rest of the meat and strained the broth. Now it goes into the fridge to cool overnight and tomorrow, I will first skim off the hardened fat and finish it off with the veggies, beans and spices.

        Then another bite to eat, (as if we needed it).  Some left over ham, rice, potato casserole, and tossed salad, kinda just filled a little empty gaps in our stomachs.

tatsy leftovers

        Now all the family get together's are done for this Easter, so nice to see everybody again after our six months way. Now the rest of the summer we will move around, different resorts, and visit more friends and family members again in smaller groups. Yes we do so love this lifestyle!

        Thanks for stopping by!

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