My fingers are still dripping with the sugary sweetness of an outing to a maple sugar bush! Yummmm…. slurp! (Don’t worry, I’ve actually cleaned them so I’m not mucking up my keyboard!)
Aside from the headache I woke up with— thanks primarily to the three, extra-strength (6.1% alcohol/volume) Black Label Ice I indulged myself with last night— it was a mighty nice day today.
I got up late but still early enough to indulge in a little laying-about-in-bed-and-reading of the last part of my latest Sci-Fi subway book (Virgin Planet by Poul Anderson ©1959).
Then I got up, took a shower, ate some breakfast, made some tea for the road, checked for e-mail, engaged in a little ICQ chat, grabbed the camera, and hit the road to go the the meeting place.
I met other people on the outing, and took one passenger for the trip up to Kortright. We had to wait in a very long line to get into the parking lot, finally parked, went in, wandered around a bit, went for pancakes “with real maple syrup” (2 for $4.00, 3 for $5.00), went for a walk around the trail and learned The Story of Maple Syrup Making. Then I raided the gift shop and got lots of maple stuff— maple syrup, maple sugar candies, maple walnut scented candles, maple flavoured tea, maple sugar covered almonds (called “Beaver Droppings”!). The afternoon was winding down so I hung around some more waiting to see if my passenger had another ride back to her car, then finally came home.
My Oscar™ Night Predictions:
1. There will be no Red Carpet Ceremony. Instead, in “honour” of the War in Iraq, there will be a Persian Carpet Bombing Ceremony.
2. Thanks to having the dress she was scheduled to wear stolen from the designer’s car, Angelina Jolie will show up nekkid. But being Angelina Jolie, she will wear it well.
3. Chicago will take all the awards.
4. Because of the abbreviated entrance sequence (see #1 above), the show will be in danger of running short. To compensate, Susan Sarandon will give a 20-minute anti-war speech disguised as an introduction to the award she is supposed to be presenting.
5. I will be completely blasé about the whole thing, and will either find something else to watch on television, or will put music on and do other stuff around the house instead.
