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People who live in rural areas keep beer fridges because they cannot make the long drive to the market or grocery store as frequently as people who live in town. Some of my in-laws have 2 fridges and a deep-freeze in order to keep food stocked up. It's especially difficult to make the trip to the grocery store this time of year due to weather. Here in Canada it's often not worth the risk to go to the grocery store. They use the second fridge mostly for milk, fruit and yogurt. The freezer is for meat.

Add a little lemon zest to the recipe and you have one great treat. I was on a scone-baking kick a few months ago and used dried cranberries and lemon zest. They were great.

Purple has been my favorite colour since I was three years old. I switched to pink for about a year when I was 6 and got stuck with a pink bedroom. When I finally moved into an apartment I could paint, the bathroom was painted a bright, deep purple. I had repeatedly told my husband not to let me pick the colour, but he insisted. Half of my wardrobe is purple, and I picked my wedding dress because the colour accents were an "almost purple" shade of fuschia.

I wish I'd seen this last weekend. I had some extra pumpkin left over from making scones, and these look much tastier!