What might the green be roasting with these baby potatoes? If the Creative Cooking Group is serving rack of lamb, the answer is rosemary and mint straight out if the garden.
Category Archives: Interest Groups
Book group
Four of us were able to attend the book discussion group over lunch yesterday, but we were able to talk about a dozen or so books. Marian brought her copy of Significant Lives, which was self-published by our club a number of years ago. She was on the committee to produce it and told us many interesting anecdotes.
Leslie took notes with her beautiful script:
Dining out group
Our Dining out group went to Pinecroft yesterday…. A quintessential autumn delight. The drive on the backroads included fields of pumpkins and forests in dazzling reds, oranges and golds. Pinecroft is a cluster of log cabins nestled in the woods, complete with pottery studio, gift shop and restaurant. The food was sourced locally and beautifully prepared. Homemade soups, grilled cheese and BLTs, top notch Caesar salad (possibly my new gold standard!), and so much more. I think we were high on autumn because the laughter and joy at the table was ….delicious!
Walking group with attitude!
Dining out interest group — fall pics!
Biking group in Waterford
The biking group makes a favourite stop on the Waterford trail. The CFUW biking group cycle weekly from May to Sept.
August book group!
It was such an enjoyable lunch and book chat today, with varied discussions and a bevvy of books! The photo shows some of them, although the one on the left with the lavender book mark was not read, even though the author was at the table. That’s because this is the Ukrainian language edition of Marsha’s novel, Stolen Girl! Jean, our resident historian, brough three fascinating older books, shown above: Man and his world, which we all remembered from high school, Herstory III and a charmingly illustrated book called Still Glides the Stream. Norah told us about the book she’s reading, pictured above, called Lady in Waiting, and she’s really enjoying it. Our newest participant, Jeanne, had an eclectic and interesting variety:
Leslie also had some interesting books:
As did Marsha:
Perfection isn’t necessary
We have fast walkers and slow walkers in our Tuesday morning walking group. We have some who arrive late but jog to catch up and some who take their time and take pictures along the way or identify each bird call as it sounds. Some revel in the rain while others bring umbrellas. No matter what your thoughts are on a perfect walk, ours are all about friendship and exercise and great conversation. None of us is perfect, but we are all interesting and interested.
In tribute to Mary Laurie-Pile
We lost a dear longtime member recently: Mary Laurie-Pile, an amazing woman who left a deep imprint on our community in an amazing number of ways.
Here is her obituary.
She was a long time member of the walking group and as we walked, she would pick up trash along the way, determined to keep our public walkways clean. On our walk today, our thoughts were on Mary as we passed a giant can that someone carelessly tossed in the middle of the walking trail. Here’s Norah, picking up the trash and disposing it, in a tribute to dear Mary.
A lot of books!
We met again over lunch to talk about books and as always, we covered a LOT of ground. Always so interesting!