Taste one. I have used them to melt to make chocolate sauce (2 parts chocolate to 1 part butter, put it in a jar. heat before putting on ice cream. It turns hard on the ice cream and is fantastic) Used a many year old chocolate bar and it was wonderful.

Let's see. Managed to leave the pump in the barn cistern running and decluttered ALL hte water to the corral and thence to the pasture. Thought it might make a good opportunity (since I'd messed up so bad) to get the pump put back on the switch,and called the electrician to do same and then figured to ask the fire department if they did not want to flush a pumper into my cistern (it fills from off the roof and I was not looking forward to much rain as it was bitter cold). Said electrician did not respond, so Tuesday my neighbor and I did the job, thus decluttering the barn of an underground splice kit(how I found THAT in the clutter in the barn was only prayer-no other way possible) and then 20 minutes later the electrician calls to say he's been out hunting and only just got the message. He was pleased that I' already done it as he could not get to it til yesterday when it POURED. So much for no more rain. And we did get 1000 liters from a neighbor, so we are OK now.

My friend the professional declutterer has been here twice and the jam is in the hall (which is being transformed into a storage area as we don't need it as a hall, and the living room is so close to losing an extra table! Very exciting. However, I have 3 shows underway (one opening tomorrow (strike Sunday) one opening next week and one in the planning stages (and one in the preplanning, but it is 2 shows in repertory, so a bigger deal) I may need to get my kids in on the decluttering act. It's just harder for exchange students who don't know the house very well yet....

AND we got the bottom of hte garage wall filled in today. It's only been waiting a year. and all the scraps are decluttering into the stove.

Whew!

Cami