Whitewater Granola Bar Success

Here it is, Rachael's granola bar made from the recipe in the Whitewater Cook Book. It tastes as good as it looks. It contains sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, oats, coconut, peanut butter, golden syrup and chocolate chips. Perfect after a day at the ski hill or in packed lunches.

The main news of this week is that we have been to buy ourselves a new washing machine. After 6 months using the top loader (yes, you really read top loader - these are still commonplace in Canada) that was in the house when we moved in we decided that we really didn't want it 'eating' our clothes any longer. We managed to find a front loading machine which seems to have a huge capacity and a direct drive system which makes it much quieter on the spin. The delivery guys brought it into the garage but we still had to lift it up one flight of stairs to the main house level and along to the utility room. Here it is at the bottom of the hallway stairs awaiting a lift.

Thankfully our very good neighbour Al came to help Shaun lift it upstairs and return the old one to the garage. We have only had it installed for 2 hours and already given it a test drive!

Shaun has got his first Canadian cold at the moment and is feeling quite poorly but he did manage to get up to the ski hill today for half a dozen runs as we had 10cm of fresh snow overnight and there was no way he was going to miss out on that! It was a beautiful day at the slopes and it kept snowing all day but it was relatively warm at about -3 degress C.

This picture was taken at the top of Summit lift just about to head down Bonanza run on a rare blue sky day.

We have also enjoyed our fix of Radio 2 this week. We 'listen again' to the Radio 2 shows when we have a moment including Terry Wogan, Ken Bruce, Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand. Whilst Rachael was waiting in for the washing machine to arrive one morning this week Ken Bruce kept her company whilst she was doing some ironing. Here is a picture of Phantom sat next to the laptop listening to dear old Ken.

We hope you are keeping well and we look forward to hearing from you.
Love Rachael, Shaun, Phantom and Harley.
xx