Partly Nonsense

ORIGINALLY WRITTEN JOEL KLAASSEN
For someone like me who likes ice cream as much as breathing, it was hard to believe we had never made homemade ice cream until last Thursday night. Not long ago, when we cleaned out my mom’s garage, she gave us their old ice-cream freezer, which my folks had when they still lived in Minnesota.

It seemed like a simple matter to make some of the stuff, but it wasn’t.

First, you aren’t supposed to make things with raw eggs and all of the recipes we found had raw eggs in them. Who else would we call but our own cooking columnist and recipe specialist Cheryl Jost?

She came through with a cooked-egg recipe and we were ready to go. We bought the ice and the rock salt, pulled the old freezer out of the box and set up.

I poured the liquid ice-cream stuff into the metal canister, popped on the lid and hooked up the motor and plugged it in. Things were turning and we started to put the ice and salt in.

Then the trouble began.

The plastic lid has a little finger that is supposed to turn the container one way and the paddle is supposed to go the other. The ice was catching on the seam on the container and the lid kept popping up. To make a long story shorter, it wasn’t working.

What to do now?

Jen asked if we had any duct tape, and of course we did. Everybody has duct tape.

The next step was to wrap the canister with duct tape all the way to the top, including all the way around the plastic lid.

Presto. The duct tape worked like a charm and the ice cream was very good. Could the R-value of the tape make it take longer to freeze?

I have had the privilege of working with the Hillsboro High School yearbook staff this year. They have put their heart and soul into this year’s edition and it will be special and unique. Hope they win an award for creativity because it is deserving in every way.

Dan and Jen went antiquing last week while visiting in the area and found a 1962 city map of Seattle in Peabody.

Here’s a new carpenter saying I have never heard. Maybe you have heard it or maybe you’ve done it.

“A little putty, a little paint,

Makes it look like what it ain’t.”

I heard that Randy Klassen recently scored two birdies on the seventh hole at Hillsboro Municipal Golf Course.

His tee shot hit and killed a bird flying across the fairway. Then he teed up again and scored a three on the par-4 hole. Jason Schroeder was a witness to the double birdie.

On a whim, we purchased a DVD player at Quick Flick one wintery Saturday night in January and just watched our second DVD movie last week.

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