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  1. #juan

    Strawberry Shortcake

    Ingredients 1 four pound flat of fresh strawberries 1 plain white/yellow cake...no icing 2 tablespoons strawbery jam 250 grams fresh whipping cream about half a cup white sugar Directions Whip cream with three teaspoons of sugar and put it in the fridge Clean and separate strawberries...put...
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    Check out this Canadian artist

    He does a lot of flowers and he is very good at them. He also does very impressive seascapes. I wish he did more animals. He has the touch with horses. He is sort of the reverse of Robert Bateman who does mostly animals.
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    2013 women's world hockey championships

    Canada just defeated Switzerland 13 - 0 In an earlier game Canada beat the U.S. in a shoot out. I just heard about this tournament fifteen minutes ago. I didn't see either of these games. They were both on the tube.
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    Spring is Here...............

    Without trying to be difficult, at one time the hippies were the largest group of unwashed and they arrived in Vancouver from everywhere in Canada, Drawn, I guess, by dope and the warmer weather. In it's glory days, Fourth Avenue was the home of cheap dope and police were surprisingly...
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    Spring is Here...............

    We had a very light dusting of snow back in Nov. It was gone the very next day. I'll be very glad if that turns out to be the extent of our Winter. have spent part of my life in colder climes but I have no desire to go back to shoveling drivways.
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    Spring is Here...............

    Our house is a split level. One side is a sort of half basement but it is alll above the water table. We hope that is a permanent situation..:smile:
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    Spring is Here...............

    I know all about sump pumps. We just don't have one here.
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    Spring is Here...............

    Sump pump???
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    Spring is Here...............

    That is a problem....:smile: Nanaimo, British Columbia - 7 Day Forecast - Environment Canada
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    Spring is Here...............

    Hey Ron You won't have the 16 degrees, but looks like it will be sunny........lol
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    Spring is Here...............

    According to Environment Canada, Friday will be 16 degrees and sunny. That certainly sounds like Spring to me.....:lol:
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    What are you eating right now?

    Just had Kraft Dinner with bacon and real cheese. A little heavy on calories but very tasty.
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    What are you eating right now?

    The only time I've gotten a substantial increase in volume was by adding a pile of dry gluten that you can buy at the store for six or seven dollars a package, but never a loaf of bread for a cup of flour.
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    What are you eating right now?

    Food processors don't have to be super expensive, nor does the bread maker. We use the bread maker to make nearly all our bread and we use the food processor to make all kinds of things........like piecrust ....throw in the flour, the salt, the shortning, and a bit of water, and in three or...
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    Pot Roast to die for

    as an asside: The roasting pan I used was almost too small for that roast. I had to do everything I could just to shoe horn the roast into the pan. There wasn't more than a few cubic inches of space above the roast. I was surprised there was room for the liquids.
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    What are you eating right now?

    Sounds different. What did you do? whirl it all in the blender?
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    What are you eating right now?

    Leftover mushroom and pepperoni pizza from yesterday zapped in the microwave.. delicious.....:smile:
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    Iceland meat pies....no meat of any kind

    Iceland tests find meat pies contain no meat at all - World - CBC News They were testing for horsemeat but found no meat at all.
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    I really wish Harper's people would learn to count

    Military supply ships $1.5B over budget, watchdog says - Politics - CBC News At last count the ships were 4.3 billion over budget.
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    Their Magnificent neighbor to the north

    One version of Argo apparently won an Academy Award. Unfortunately, an Academy Award has nothing to do with th truth. Part of the true story was that the Canadian embassador to Iran, Ken Taylor, at great risk to himself, Organized a cover story for each of the half dozen Americans and...