Cottage Visit... Surprise!

Come Spring time, we don't go to the cottage very often.  It is typically not nice, weather-wise and with the bugs and all, there is nothing too attractive about going up there.  But this weekend, we decided to go up for a couple of days since we had nothing else going on in town.  It was going to be a rainy weekend so we decided that we'd spend time in the kitchen cooking.  Always fun to do when you have time :)  We pulled up in our driveway and immediately noticed a strong smell, one of oil or gasoline.  Upon inspection of our cottage, everything seemed to be OK so Gord decided to walk around to our neighbors' properties to see if anything was up.  Within a few minutes, he ran back grabbed a large BBQ pan and ran off agian without so much as uttering a word.  After running after him, I saw what he saw.  A hole in the neighbor's oil tank with the oil making its way into the lack.  Wow! This is soooo bad....  We immediately called the owner of the cottage followed by some frantic calls to the oil company to come and syphon the oil out of the tanks.  Meantime, Gord is catching the spilling oil with BBQ pans and dumping into huge recycle bins while waiting for help.  Yeah.  This went n for hours, well into the night.  Environment Quebec came and started the emergency clean up.  It was quite the weekend.

In the meantime, the girls and I carried on with our kitchen weekend.  We made a huge pot of meat sauce and some fresh pasta.  Yummy!