Pancake Breakfast at MaryLou's

What a great time. Mary Lou has always told stories of her slaving away at boiling down a zillion gallons of maple sap (is that what it's called?) to make a gallon of pure maple syrup. Today we got a taste of all her diligence and hard work....Yummy!!!! We even got to see the famous fire pit, and her stock of wood to keep the fire burning for days and days (God love her for that, I don't think I could do it. I'd have to take a month off of work {sounds good but I don't think it would go over to big with the school district}). Of course I didn't think to take any pictures of the fire pit or the syrup that was being made at the time. I thought my assistant was taking care of that. I think I'll have to reprimand him for slacking off on the job. You just can't get good help these days :). I also learned about Bee keeping and may even get to experience it first hand. I didn't get any pic's of the fire pit but I did get the most important pictures. I tip my hat to the host and hostess with the mostest!

And here are all those who partook of this most enjoyable, delicious breakfast spread. What was on the menu you ask? We enjoyed: pancakes, Belgian waffles, bacon, sausage patties, breakfast sausage, cinnamon rolls, wholegrain raspberry bars, pound cake, cookies, Strawberry and Blueberry toppings, mimosa's, (what? it has Orange Juice in it...a very good breakfast drink indeed), coffee, tea, fresh fruit, and let's not forget the guest of honor, the fresh, home made Maple Syrup.

What a spread.

Some people are just ham's trying to corner the market on getting in on every picture. And what's he doing here? God only knows! :) Good Grief!



We had a few of our members unable to attend. One was Brian (a SUNY Bkpt. student) who sent an email to me, which I read for everyone, saying he was regretfully going to need some time off. However he did have a request that I eat 12 pancakes for him. There is no way I could eat 12 pancakes but I did make a pig of myself in YOUR honor. In fact when I took 5 pancakes, Nancy said: "are you eating for two?" Thus trying politely to remind me of my manners when eating out. I'm sure what she really wanted to say was "you're eating at someones house, don't be a pig." My answer of course was "YES" :). So Brian, we consumed: 1 mimosa (it was actually guzzled :)),
coffee, 5 pancakes topped with lot's of blueberry topping, whipped cream and strawberry on top, of course, maple syrup, 2 pieces of bacon, 1/4 of a waffle (I had planned on taking the rest of it home as I didn't want to waste it but someone felt the need to dispose of it...what a sin :)). Unfortunately, I fear I enjoyed it much more than you did. We will miss you Brian and hope to see you soon.





Here we have Mary Lou showing off her newest gift. She is so in her glory. She has
wanted a chainsaw for so many years and now she has one. Now she can cut her own firewood for next years maple tapping. ;)

Mary Lou and Dave, thank you so much for hosting such an extravaganza.
God Bless you!

By the way for anyone envious of my overindulgent plate, I was still full at dinner time and ate only a few of those oatmeal raspberry bars.

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