Parting Gift

My brother Tommy and his wife hosted Thanksgiving on the weekend and as a 'thank you for coming' I got 50 lbs of potatoes!  And not just any potatoes.  These were farmer fresh (picked earlier that day) and grown by Tom himself.  I am a lucky girl.

Now all I have to do is find a way to get through all 50 lbs!!  We already used some for the turkey dinner I made on Monday night, and we are having home made french fries tonight.  Good thing I like potatoes and there are so many ways to prepare them.

What is your favourite way to eat potatoes?

The Great Pumpkin Pie Hunt

Enjoyed turkey and Thanksgiving fun with my family yesterday.  On the way to dinner, Mom and I stopped at Zerhs to pick up a pumpkin pie and dinner rolls.  And so did the rest of Barrie apparently.  There were no pumpkin pies on any display table, no dinner rolls on any shelf.  We saw someone asking the guys in the bakery, and they still had a few pumpkin pies in the back.  We scored the third last one.  A few minutes later a man successfully got the very last pumpkin pie in all of the store.  All smiles, he held up his winnings and said: "Twenty bucks! Who wants it?"  He wasn't really trying to sell, but he did make price gouging hilarious!

A little later we asked the bakery guys if they had any dinner rolls in the back.  Not only did they have them, they were fresh and still warm from the oven.  The major bonus of our pie and dinner roll hunt was how happy the guys working in the bakery department were.  They were in their late teens or early twenties, and they seemed to genuinely enjoy so many people asking them for help and then being able to provide what was sought after.  One of the guys even chased down a customer with a pie he found.  What a delight to interact with people who actually like their jobs!

Another bonus? Pumpkin pie tastes amazing.  Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

Red Sky at Night

Beautiful sunset out there tonight.

Oro World's Fair Photo Round Up

Here's some highlights of the sights at the 2010 Oro World's Fair.  If you notice slight blurriness on the right side of some of the photos, that is compliments of my five year old nephew who put his adorable little fingers right on the lens.  Good thing he's cute.

The midway.

Caramel Popcorn was purchased here!

Local farmer's tractors on display.

Demonstrating how they used to saw logs back in the day.

My nephew Earl checks out a calf.

My sister-in-law won first prize for her 'Hungry Man Lunch' display.

The parade begins with a police escort and the fire department!

Oro-Medonte fire truck.

At this point the parade went to the dogs.

The crowd watches as the tractors join the parade. 

My brother driving my uncle's tractor.

The finale of the parade is the march of all the elementary school students.

W.R. Best was my school and I got to carry the banner in grade 7.  Represent!

The parade ends with the clumping of school children (a.k.a chaos)

Whose Service??

The Mayoral and Council elections are quickly approaching and I took notice of this sign that is posted all over the township.

I know I live in a small town, but isn't a giant Jesus fish on an election sign wildly inappropriate?  Also does the slogan "in your service" refer to me (a constituent) or is he referring to being in God's service?  I don't even know what this candidate's platform is, but based on his sign, he is really into his religious beliefs.  Maybe that is all I need to know...