As we (all too quickly) approach Christmas 2021, I find myself looking back upon another year spent living with that most unpleasant of uninvited guests, Covid.  It has been a strange year, fires, floods, pandemic and highways rendered impassable.  We brought Supergirl to a close, and now are working on bringing a new TV series to life.  It has been another year of working from home, which is difficult professionally, but has been very nice personally.

We haven’t been able to spend time with family or friends as we would have liked, but we have used the means at hand to keep in touch and make sure everyone is doing ok.  It isn’t an easy time, but we are doing alright with it, and like everyone else we look forward to a day when we can again feel comfortable spending time.

Due to work constraints, I have found it hard getting to finalizing a few recipes that I am working on so that I can post them up.  I have been doing quite a bit of cooking, but most of it is the day to day stuff that really isn’t that interesting.  I have played with doing processed cheeses, something that has been both fun and productive.  I have also started to do some work with ground beef jerky and pepperoni, which has also been fun and productive.

I didn’t do much meat smoking this summer, the fires contributed more than enough smoke to the atmosphere, I just couldn’t bring myself to add to it.  I am hoping that over this Christmas break to be able to do some smoking, but first I need to tuck into some festive season baking.

Being home has allowed us to frequent some of our favourite restaurants and stores.  Some of these are old favorites, and a few are new.  We really are very fortunate to have such a selection of eateries and stores in Kamloops.  There have been a couple of new eateries open that we haven’t been able to attend yet, but we will as the current situations allow.  On that note, I will work on another post with some details on some of our favorites.

In closing, Kathy and I wish everyone a Merry Christmas, and a Happy and Healthy 2022.  May we all be together again next Christmas!

From our home to yours, all of our best

Scott and Kathy