This is my snap setting hammer. I got it out on Friday to play with some snaps and I noticed that the handle felt a bit loose. I remembered that when I bought it the description had said something about a screwdriver in the handle so I unscrewed it to see what it was like.

Pretty nice. A good size too. It felt like there was something in the handle. I thought there might be other bits. So I screwed off the cap on the bottom of the handle.

Now that's pretty cute. A screwdriver in a screwdriver. Another handy size too. Still felt like there was something inside though.

Ta da! Another little screwdriver. I though this was pretty funny and went to show Rob. While we were laughing over it I noticed a grove around the bottom of the littlest screwdriver.

Yep ... it's a tiny screwdriver hiding out. My hammer is the screwdriver equivalent of a set of nesting dolls. This might be the coolest tool I own right now (plus it lets me install snaps.).

PS. I just took a bunch of eccles cakes out of the oven. They smell so good.

This was our breakfast this morning. Apple ginger muffins and home made ricotta cheese. Yum.

The muffins have chopped up candied ginger in them so every once in a while you get a little zing of ginger next to the sweetness of the apple. I got twelve large muffins from the recipe but you could probably squeeze out fifteen smaller ones.

My sister and I made this cheese yesterday as an experiment. It's quite creamy tasting and a bit tangy. Jane thought it would be good with a bit of salt but I wasn't sure how that would go with my muffin so I left it plain. The recipe made quite a lot of cheese (roughly two cups tightly packed) which we divided in half. We also made a paneer but were a little unsure about the flavour (ie. none). Neither of us have ever had paneer so we weren't really sure what it should taste like or how it's supposed to be eaten. It seems like the sort of thing that might absorb flavours if it's cooked in something strong like a curry.

We got back from our vacation around lunch time yesterday. We had a good time in Edmonton and I thought I would share it as a bunch of pictures. Sometimes we go on vacation and I'll take almost no pictures at all, other times I find myself keenly aware of how things might look as stills when we get home; this was one of those times. The picture above is my lemonade from dinner Sunday night; it was so refreshing.