Ice huts must be winter substitutes for garages, where men go to escape.
Last winter when I was here in Fort Frances, sitting alone, eating my supper in the dining room at Place Rendezvous, looking out the big plate glass windows to the line of huts across the lake, I asked the waitress, "where do the women go to escape?"
She thought abit then said, well, I have a craft room. My husband is not allowed in there. Her sewing machine is in there. Her computer is in there. She does some scrapbooking, too, in her "room of one's own."
Does your husband have his own room, too? like a computer room just for him? I asked.
No, she replied, he has the couch and the big screen tv in the den.

I don't think I'll try crossing into the US this time. What would the border guards think of my husband and I together, both with Lebanese stamps in our passports? If we say we want to go shopping at KMart will they believe us? When we say we will have supper at Barney's will they doubt us? Does having Lebanese stamps in your passport put you at the bottom of the 13 country, 653 million person long US extra measures security list?
Guess we'll stay on the Canadian side.
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Oh, I am so sorry.
Well, I told my husband at lunch today, maybe we should cross over, although we will most likely have 2 things face us: 1. rejection after questioning and not allowed to cross, or 2. questioning and a search before being allowed in.
But it may be 3: just being waved through after showing our passports.
We'll go for a walk along the river board walk later today (on the Canadian side) and think about it.
I would be more afraid of being allowed to enter but not permitted to leave.
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