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Obviously you fellas have never watched decapitated chickens doing the bird dance!

Looks like a fun day.

That was one intense, well played, 3rd period. The best hockey I've seen for some time.

IF we aren't allowed to enjoy food anymore, we might as well eat like livestock. Pass the soylent green please.

We grew up with the patented Finglish fish call Soooeeee Kuhla, kuhla, kuhla.

It is at the municipal community centre on Hwy#3

Ft Erie has one the first Sunday of March break. Been running `10 years now.

Just got back from Cooks Bay. Went out with Terry Goy's huts.. Simple, clean and warm huts, and hundreds of fish to catch. Unfortunately they were almost all dinks. Lots of pike keeping the perch spooked as well. We brought one of the toothy critters home as a dinner guest.

Glade to hear you are doing well.

I nearly pissed myself reading this. Wife had to rush over to see what's the matter. She now wants to blackmail you for the big dollars

Looks like I am heading up to Lady S Sunday morning. Have to make a tackle delivery. Hopefully we are going to get out on Cooks. I know the hut operators are waiting for a few more inches of ice. Would be best for a first time out with one of the grandaughters in tow. A mile walk in snow is not easy for a five year old.

With our growing family I had to bake 2 batches of pulla. One batch done as sweet rolls. The grandkids like it Frenchie style, smothered in icing (yeecchh). Must get it from their 1/2 French mother. The second batch done as loaves on Christmas eve which we will have for breakfast tomorrow slathered in butter. One thing I'm not used to any more is getting up at 5 am with the grandkids bouncing off the walls.

Cute little puppy. I won't show my wife or I'll end up with 3 dogs.

Merry Christmas Kelvin

She sure is cute. Christmas will get real exciting next year.

First rule of membership in a political family. Family members are merely eye candy subordinate to the politician and his/her party. There are rules of behaviour for family. Breaching the rules can sink a career as quickly as a politician's indiscretions in bed.. A classmate of mine was stuck in that trap as the son of a politician, and having to behave perfectly, without an opinion of his own for 15 years. Of course there are rewards for such submission, such as a well paid internship in the PMO for a summer. But you do not own your life. The party does. So now this lady is free to flap her gums any way she wants.

On the subject of bread... First batch of Finnish pulla is now resting on the counter. The house just reeks of yeast, cinnamon and cardamom. The kids wanted sticky buns for Christmas morning. I'll probably hunker down to batch #2 on Saturday. Tomorrow we be feasting on fish head soup and good dark rye

I like the solitude, but I also enjoy the company of like minded souls.

My son and I have gone out in the afternoon Christmas Day. Had nothing better to do as the family had planned the big dinner for Boxing Day.

One week til Christmas day and the kitchen now kicks into overdrive. Pulled pork simmering in the slow cooker, while I finish cleaning up today's baking assignment, traditional shortbreads. Tommorrow will be a stack of mini pizzas for the grandchildren and their friends.

Nat Kng Cole's "Christmas Song"

Yes I only use a shallow steam pan for about 15 minutes, but it does help deflect the heat that goes to the bottom of the loaf. The cast pot has different requirements from open loaf baking

Another alternative is a steam tray on a rack under the loaf

I don't trust factory pack meats. Freshness is not the only issue. A number of area meat shops/butchers have better prices on better quality meats, and certainly a lot fresher.