First Rising

First Rising
Originally uploaded by Minnesota Daybreak

This is bread dough rising in my favorite bowl. :)
I love the aroma in my house on days when I bake bread.

In the past I baked bread in a bread machine.  It tasted good, but the shape of the loaf wasn't very appealing or useful.  I've switched to making bread with a Kitchenaid mixer doing the harder work of kneading the dough.  Other than that, the process is much like my great aunt, Elsie, used when I was growing up.  She always let me 'help' with her baking. Good memories and good eating.

Cross Reference

"Christianity is not a religion of rules. It is the religion of divine example." -George Hodges

Lake Ice Report - April 17,2009

The lake ice has that dark look it gets before it goes out, but no big cracks across it yet.


This is a pile of burned logs that were left on the ice in front of Glattley's place.

Kasper was groomed this week

I thought I would start posting here again with this very short entry.

Kasper, "the shaggy dog", had a bath and a haircut at Angie's Groom & Board. He looks, smells, and feels SO much better!

This is a "before" photo:


This is an "after" photo:

There are more photos of him on my Flickr pages.

(Lake of the Woods) Walleye

Recently while Brian & Wendy were rearranging some of their furniture they found a lost ‘memory stick’ from a camera that Glenn had accidently dropped down a hole while ice fishing one weekend in 2004. The camera didn’t survive, but the memory stick did and it held some great photos. I thought I’d post one of a walleye he caught and released. When I see photos of Glenn it helps me smile, even when I’m missing him most.