Maple Sugar time again.

Last year at this time we traveled to the Pomeroy Sugar House on the other side of Westfield, for Breakfast. On last years trip took along Flat Stanley for an adventure. You might want to take a look at the Flat Stanley link because I included pictures last year. Pancakes with sausage and homefries, all covered with lots of Freshly made Pure Maple Syrup and lots of coffee to wash it all down. What can be better than that? Its really great to live in New England.

Pomeroy's Sugar House is on line if you want some information about them. Just click on the Sugar House Hyperlink. In case you might want some more Maple taste I am providing one of the Pomeroy's own recipes. I have tried it and it was excellent.
Maple Cream Cheese Pie
1 9" Graham Cracker Pie Crust
1 8oz. package of cream cheese
1 can Sweetened Condensed Milk
1/3 cup Lemon Juice
2 Tablespoons Maple Syrup

Beat Cream Cheese until fluffy; add Condensed Milk, Lemon Juice and Maple Syrup. Beat well. Pour into prepared Pie Crust and chill.

Topping:
1 Cup Maple Syrup
1/2 cup Water
1 Egg
1 1/2 tablespoon Corn Starch mixed in 1/4 cup of Water.
Bring Maple Syrup, water, beaten egg and cornstarch (dissolved in 1/4 cup of water) to a boil. Cook until thickened. Cool and spread on top

of Pie. Garnish with chopped nuts. Chill and serve.

Photo is Randy feeding the firewood into the evaporator. I hijacked this phot0 from the Pomeroy's web site.

Neat Photo

Thought that I might throw this picture in today. This is what my windshield looked like this morning at 8am. Yesterday at 8 it was 0 degrees and this morning it was 40. The sun was rising directly behind my truck so even though the temp was 40, the windshield was not directly in the sun. This was all ice crystals and it all quickly disappeared with one shot of windshield washer solution.

MSU or Uof M, what gives?

This posting is because I was challenged on what I said in an older posting "My Bear Killer": It was a gun posting about my Colt single action frontier scout .22 LR and in it I said "When I was off to college at Montana State University at Missoula, my Colt went with me." Then today I got a comment from Kerry who said "Just a technicality...but MSU is and always has been Montana State University in Bozeman. It is the rival school of University of Montana in Missoula. Because we are rivals we are a little sensitive about the common mix up". I sat in front of my computer screen trying to figure that out for a while and so I Googled Montana State University and it was obvious that MSU was in Bozeman Montana, not Missoula where I went to school. I went to school there 45 years ago and memories do fade and maybe I am getting the early stages of "Old Timers" disease just like my wife is always saying. I know 45 years is a long time but... So I went searching for my yearbook and there it was, right on the cover "Sentinel '62 Montana State University Missoula", on page 11 was The MSU-MSC Game at Bozeman. I was there as I took the pictures as yearbook photographer. The photo's were Extchrome taken with a 4x5 Graflex 'Press' camera. They were the first large format color photos I had taken as each slide was very expensive. MSU (Missoula) lost by one point to MSC (Bozeman). I was vindicated but what happened. We were the proud MSU GRIZZLES of the old Skyline Conference and someone came along and took all of that away and gave Missoula a different name, University of Montana. I remember a basketball game when our center, Steve Lowry battled "Bill the Hill McGill from Utah" in a classic basketball game. Is that gone also? They took Bozeman's name, MSC, away and gave them another name. Both MSU and MSC probably did something to tick off the state legislature and they then showed them by changing their name. Who became MSC if MSC was changed to MSU? Back in the "Old Days" State Legislatures worried about having three or four types of schools of higher learning spread across their state: State Teachers College; State College which held the Agricultural College; a University for a broader based education; a forth type would be a school of mines. Maybe that explains it. If you know what happened how about dropping me a comment.