~ I rid my closet
and drawers of
two large garbagebags
full of clothes, and
still have too many.
Not that a girl can
really ever have
too many. ~

Waiting on the créme a sucre. It has to boil three minutes and then we keep it in the fridge and use it on pancakes or ice cream. Eat your heart out. Have I given you the recipe? I should, it's so damn easy:

Créme a Sucre

One cup brown sugar, one cup whipping cream, a dash of salt. Boil two or three minutes, then remove from stove. Cool, then add one teaspoon of vanilla and a dash of mapleine (I don't see why any maple flavouring wouldn't do as well.) This is a traditional French-Canadian sauce. I call it liquid fudge.

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Okay, that's done. The aroma of the chicken roasting in the oven has just started to reach out through the door. Scott and I snagged a few new potatoes and some young carrots from our garden. I took a frozen cherry pie out of the deep freeze. We are feasting tonight, peoples!

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We spent a hotel night (you know the sort: potato chips and pop in bed in front of the TV) at Manitou Beach after soaking an hour in the mineral waters. Picked Emil up this morning. He wasn't ready to come home of course. But he had a wonderful time.

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My aunt was going to bus it to Saskatoon on Monday, so I offered to delay my BC departure for several days and drive her instead.

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Best go wash those spuds.

xoxo
etc
Kate