Retired at 54 due to restructuring at work.  Certainly earlier than I planned but don’t miss work. 36 yrs was enough.  Do miss the people though.  DW retired this year and am looking forward to our 1st yr as snowbirds.  Many people work hard, die young and never get to enjoy the fruits of their labours.  I look around and see parts of our hous…[Read more]

The Cougars are very nice. Much improved decors/colours in the past few years.  We almost went with the 333mks but ended up going a bit bigger and got a Mountaineer 331.  You didn’t say if you are going with a 3/4T or 1T but most new 3/4 T with a diesel should have enough payload capacity for a 10,000# 5er but a 1T would give you more reserve c…[Read more]

Thanks Julie.  I’ve bookmarked them to my Recipe directory and will give them a try.  Isn’t this internet thing wonderfull.  Who buys cookbooks anymore.  DW has drawers full of her “favourite” cookbooks which seldom see the light of day.

DW is into the smoothies as well and we bought a Ninja blender for the house.  It has attachments just right for individual size smoothies so we can benefit from the powerful motor with all the settings but not take up as much storage space.  We have the salad spinner as well but have to say no to the bread maker.  Trying to reduce the waist li…[Read more]

We will definitely take the slow cooker with us on our Snowbird jaunt to Az this winter.  I love my eggs in the morning but hate cleaning up the frying pan.  DW found a couple of neat gizmos for doing poached eggs and an omelette maker, both for the microwave.  Real quick and cleanup is a breeze.