The Canadian with the second-hand bread machine

-By Lisa 

 I am Canadian. 

• I could ice skate before I could walk.
• I say “eh” --- but only around Husband because he never makes fun of me for it. 
• I love Barenaked Ladies, especially the Gordon album. 
• I’m ok with it being called “socialized medicine.” 

And what is perhaps the most Canadian thing about me – I have a hard time being proud of anything. We are not a boastful people. 

But this, without doubt, is the proudest I’ve ever been of any green/simple adventure I’ve been on. This, ladies and gentlemen - is My Eight Dollar Bread Machine. 

 

• I am proud of myself for not spending two hundred dollars on the fancy bread machine I've had my eye on for months. 
• I am proud of myself for being patient and scouring the Goodwill until I found one. 
• I am proud of myself for not getting grossed out that it was kinda gross, and I just took a bucket of vinegar and a sponge to it. 
• I am proud that I Goggled the model number and downloaded the manual from the internet. 
• I am proud of the fact that my house smells like bread and we can now enjoy the most easy, tasty and beautiful bread I’ve ever seen. Not to mention chemical free.
  

   

I am still kind of shocked that making bread in a machine literally means throwing the ingredients in (all five of them, for the loaf to the left) pushing a button and waiting three hours for that pretty thing to emerge. Awesome. 

I am exceedingly proud of simple my score. But I’m still Canadian so I’m going to apologize for bragging. 

Soory.

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Comments

[Karen]

i am proud of u! now make me some bread, woman.

[Simplifying the Simple Life]

Thanks! I'll make you bread if you make butter to go with it. : )

-L