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This week we tried two new dishes. The first was a stuffed red cabbage dish that Andrew picked out. We won't be making this one again because the red cabbage just wasn't cooked well and didn't taste that great. But the stuffing inside was quite good - it had raisins, apples, cottage cheese, red onion, carrots, chickpeas, honey, soy sauce and apple cider vinegar. The second dish was merely adapting an italian sausage pasta dish by substituting gimme lean sausage. I find that the vegetarian substitutes for sausage and pepperoni are very good since their taste is mostly due to the spices so the actual meat content is a non-issue. The week went by as usual, nothing much to report. On Friday after work we hung up our lame christmas light display. It is more of a bistro look I guess but then I never was much for decorating. The neighbors have all done it up like crazy but at least we have something. My sister should be coming down for christmas this year and she is insisting on a tree and some decorations so that will be something new for us in this house. Yesterday was a great yard work day and we got a lot accomplished. We started off by going to the quarry to get some pea gravel to finish off the greenhouse floor. We had quite a bit left over and decided to use it up by putting in french drains around the greenhouse and the shed. Evidence from a recent rain storm shows that water is getting inside the greenhouse coming in up through the floor, so we must try to carry that water away. Luckily the ground was soft from the rains so the digging was easy. We were also able to use up all our bits and pieces of drainage pipe and extra landscape fabric that we had lying around under the house from other projects. I love it when you don't have to buy anything and you just use up what you already have. Andrew then went to the store to buy some mulch which we spread out to stop the dirt from splashing up on the greenhouse and shed walls. I think that ends it for the hardscaping this season. We are both a little burned out so the last project, the brick paths, will have to wait until next year.