Puppy Love (storey 9 of 40)

Fort Norman, N.W.T., Canada

Fasten your seatbelts, this storey jumps time and space and content, you are smart people you will figure it out.

Bored was a word that I don’t recall using as a child or hearing other kids use either. My grandfather stated, “Idle persons had weak minds.” “If you had nothing to do it was your own fault in this world of wonders. Right now we are wondering if stuffing candle ice and iodized salt into this old wooden ice cream maker will actually produce some form of ice cream. We all take turns hand cranking the handle. Our main ingredient is Pacific canned milk; we have sweetened the milk with white sugar.

Candle ice is rotten ice left over on the river banks after from the river has broken up; we have dug the silt covered particles out from under bushes on the banks of the McKenzie River. There isn’t a lot of ice left, we should have thought of this two weeks ago when the banks were covered in massive remnants of ice from break up.