That Dam Cake!

My friend Michelle's father is 90 years young this week! In his younger days, he was a concrete specialist --the first dam he worked on was on the northern section of the Ottawa River, the Des Joachims Dam also known as Swisha Dam in the late 1940s. As Michelle said, "Those bridges, dams, tunnels, highways -- in Canada, Algeria, Sri Lanka, India, China -- were and still are his passion." I hope he liked this dam cake!


The reviews are in. Here's the report I got this a.m. from Michelle and the birthday party. "Hey Ronna - "Who made the Dam cake!!???" - that was the big question last night. Dad really enjoyed it. And just before 'busting the dam' - he recounted a story of how the first water entering the spillway of that particular dam created a huge deep hole - and at this juncture he was using the tip of the knife to dig through the 'water' to demonstrate for us how wide and deep the hole was... It was great. Thanks very much!"