Waffles with butter and real maple syrup

Yumminess for breakfast all this week.  I finally got brave and bought real maple syrup.  I always passed because $$ so if I don't like it I'd feel bad for wasting money.  Of course now I'm like "ugh, have to eat up all the low sugar swill before I can buy more good stuff and this real stuff is $$" but at least knowing I like it I can go for the larger size discount when I've used up the fake stuff. 

The butter I think is a side effect of the gub'mint deciding that trans-fats were bad.  Now the groceries have multiple whipped butter options and few margarines (I was searching for one for travel hardiness.)    And butter is not expensive anymore.  Now it would take wanting hormone free stuff to get $$ I think.   Of course when I was a kid they didn't have the hormones to soup up dairy production so much and probably had less subsidies.  Although yogurt is plenty pricey.  I don't drink milk but I think the higher fat dairy stuff like butter, cream, sour cream is relatively cheaper but the lowfat items are not.   Heh, that works for me.  

Our fridge in the house has been not quite right so Dad bought a new one.  I'll have to get all the stuff into the fridge in the garage Sunday evening.   A good excuse to limit cooking this weekend at least.

I am behind on getting Tanza legged up.  I've been wimpy about riding him at home if its windy and about networking to find folks willing to meet up for riding away from home.   Oh well, we will get there for being ready for rides this summer.  I decided that I wanted to go to a multi-day ride in NM rather than try to do the BH 100 this summer so that takes pressure off.   Perhaps I will end up never trying that BH 100; but I think if  Tanza and I stay healthy I will feel like he has enough base to try it safely next year.