Combien!

Never NEVAH have I seen such snow here in southern Ontario.

"Combien!" That's how the auctioneer started off his spiel today - a liquidation action in Leamington.  I went hoping for a oriental carpet for the living room.... and found one... plus one.

I bid - just once & won - an 8 x 12 "palace" sized oriental, brand new, lovely rust burgundy, creams, grey greens.  Brand new, high quality machine made, from Turkey.  Covers a good deal of the living room, but not too much, the beautiful wood still shows all around.

And the bonus was a small 3 x 5 handmade tribal carpet from Iran.  It's old, not sure how old, I'll be looking for the pattern on the internet.  It was almost as much as the 3 times bigger one.  It looks great in the middle of the kitchen, the glowing dark colours against the cream and putty of the stone-looking tiles.

On another thread.... I practiced more muffin types today - dark chocolate chip, lemon blueberry and pecan maple.  Chip & lemon/blueberry fantastic, pecan maple.... not offensive.... bland actually....  maybe sliced with maple butter would be the cure.

Found a fantastic new recipe for buttermilk pancakes - extremely fluffy and tasty.

D took some muffins back to Toronto (2 weeks left on his course) and I took a couple of each across the road to a neighbour who just broke both his legs in a snowmobiling accident - hit a snow-hidden cement thingee at a fair clip.

Sinus still on world-wide invasion kick.  I'm still on placebo antibiotics apparently. 

Today was "Family Day" national holiday.... back to school manana..... ciao