The transition has begun folks. The time is near.
The clocks have been set and the sun sits idle in the sky just a little bit longer.
It's taking over me,I swear I can smell it in the air.
Are you ready for it?
Oh yah,I'm talkin' bout SPRING!!!!!

I enjoyed my last Friday and Saturday shifts for awhile last week. I won't miss those hectic days at the shop! Sunday was a sunny beautiful day so Vern and I decided to head out and do some shopping. Until this weekend I had no idea that Vern had NEVER been to IKEA! Can you believe it? I almost couldn't! Of course I set out to fix that and we headed there first. I think we were in and out of there in a little over 30 minutes!And yes we actually bought stuff! "Follow the blue arrows" I kept saying...He learned his lesson once when we short cut and nearly missed the kitchen stuff (that's like the best part right?!) We really weren't there to buy much,mostly taking a mental inventory of all the things we need and all the things we want as we try to make ourselves comfortable here living at Del's for a few more years. 3 adults and one small dog are a tight fit in our little old house. We need all the IKEA space savers we can get!So we wizzed through,checked ourselves out and we were off  to Cash&Carry. For those of you who haven't been to Cash &Carry,it's a restaurant,coffee shop,catering supply type store. Vern likes to buy meat in large quantities and hand cut and package it at home.It also saves us a lot of money! (We had to stock up our freezer with meat for the new smoker!) This is also where we buy the ingredients for our homemade espresso drinks! It saves me quite a bit of money every week :) Then we headed home to enjoy the rest of the sunny afternoon. These cute birds were playing in a puddle nearby and so I got as close as I could....

Looked like it was bath time!

Last but not least I bring you some more food porn....
Remember the pork loin? I diced a few slices up real small and then  added my chicken fried rice leftovers from lunch and rolled them in the pre-made egg rolls wraps I bought for less than $2. I followed the instructions on the package and they were really easy to roll.

Then off to the deep fryer for 3-5 minutes!

Mmm...deep fried goodness :P

Am I making you hungry yet?
And finally the end result...the best egg rolls I have ever had!

It's so fun to play with food! These were a success and we'll be adding egg roll wraps to our regular grocery list. It's great way to use up leftovers and I'd like to also try them with cream cheese inside too. Perhaps I should put off canceling the gym membership....looks like we are going to be needing it more than ever!