My little François hit the big six five yesterday. Now for ten days I get to live with an older woman.

Fran’s special meal usually consists of caribou [this time ground] meat with duff on top, and I don’t mind that as one of my favorites is meat pies, meat pies without the bottom works.

The accompanying vegetables are plain, don’t want to take away from the taste of the meat, and it was very good indeed.

In lieu of a cake we had shortcake with strawberries and whipped cream.

A warm front took the temperature up to +4 yesterday, it was cloudy at first then some very light rain turning to very light snow later when the temp dropped to -7.