Tuesday, December 13, 2011 Lethbridge

5:30 am

The temperature is -15° C, with a high predicted of -7° C. From the Environment Canada website: Today Mainly sunny. Fog patches early this morning. Wind south 20 km/h. High minus 7. Tonight A few clouds. Wind south 20 km/h becoming west 30 this evening. Temperature rising to minus 4 by morning. Normals Max: 0°C Min: -12°

11:00 am Photography

We went for a walk around the lake at Nicholas Sheran park this morning. The temperature was still -15° C at the time.

7:00 PM Cooking

This morning we decided to have chicken for dinner tonight. I happened to have an issue of the magazine Fine Cooking (which I bought while in Kingston this spring) in front of me and noticed the heading on the cover "Easy-to-cook Chicken Breasts". We had most of the ingredients for "Chicken cutlets with bell pepper ragout". We made a few adjustments and the result was superb!

9:00 PM Model Trains

I have completed all of the train movements for Session 2 from 7:00 am to 8:00 am. This is a true timeout from reality as I immerse myself in another era and focus on trying to run each of the trains according to its operating orders as well as the switching moves in the appropriate towns. Each "real" hour takes from one to two hours to complete the train moves.

The following is a new feature that I am testing.