Iceburg

We figured out why the garage was flooding. It turns out there was a ton of snow packed into the underside of the truck from that morning Andrew drove the truck to the gym. Each day it would drip drip drip as it melted and flood the garage floor. There was enough water that it spread to the walls where normally water comes in so that is what threw us off. Andrew finally got under the truck to take a look and sure enough he found snow and so he chipped it out. So that is great news - I didn't think we'd had enough precipitation to cause flooding, normally that only happens when we get a tropical storm pass over in the summer. Last night I made another new soup and it is a keeper: a leek and artichoke soup with mascarpone cheese. I got this one from the Everyday Italian web site on the Food Network. The mascarpone cheese is very nice and I will try to find more recipes that use it. It is creamy and a little sweet, kinda like cream cheese but much smoother. Soup sure is an easy meal to make and and easy one to clean up, basically just one pot, a cutting board and a few knives. Also in this cold snap we've been having it is nice to have hot soup and bread for dinner.