Pumpernickel Bread Love

Reader Contribution by Carol Winn
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Traditionally, I bake cookies and bread in the days before Christmas and share them with family, friends and at school where I work part-time. Cookies were baked and taken to school, but family and friends may receive their deliveries a little late or so late they might consider them an early gift for next Christmas.

You see, on December 21st an ice storm hit the area of Michigan where we live and knocked power out for thousands of homes. Fortunately, the day before those rain crystals began pitter pattering on roofs and roads, I had baked Pumpernickel bread and put two loaves in the freezer. There would be no more baking before Christmas. Electricity would not be restored until Christmas night and then lost again for the duration of the next day. Power was fully restored to our home the evening of December 26th, thanks to tree trimmers and lineman from Michigan and other states that surround us.

Grateful does not seem a strong enough word to express our feelings for the hard work that the employees of these power companies have performed.   As I finished writing that last sentence, five tree-trimming trucks rumbled by the house on their way to another destination hard hit by the storm. Hmmm … does that last sentence sound a little like a line from the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas 2013”?

For the Love of Bread-Baking

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