“One of these knives is not like the others,” I says to my 16-yeard-old son, I says. “It even has a special name: bread knife.” Wow, ay? One of life’s lessons. Son wanted to cut his sub in half, but the big carving knife he chose didn’t do the job. I demonstrated with the proper [...]
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BEHOLD!! I Give You the Bread Knife!
Posted: January 11, 2012 in Surprise, Surprise!Tags: bread knife
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What is Brown Sugar?
Posted: February 17, 2011 in Surprise, Surprise!Tags: brown sugar, pure cane sugar, Redpath Sugar, sugar in Canada
According to Wikipedia, brown sugar is “a sucrose sugar product with a distinctive brown colour due to the presence of molasses. It is ether an unrefined or partially refined soft sugar consisting of sugar crytals with some residual molasses content or it is produced by the addition of molasses to refined white sugar.” It may [...]
New Zodiac Sign
Posted: January 14, 2011 in Surprise, Surprise!Tags: Auarius, Earth's wobble, new sign, new Zodiac Sign, Ophiucus, Sidereal zodiac, Western Fixed Zodiac, Zodiac, Zodiac Sign
Is the Age of Aquarius gone?! What does the new Zodiac Sign mean to us, we who follow and, possibly even, rely on, our daily horoscope? It seems a little complicated but astronomers say it’s high time we add another Zodiac Sign, but they claim that 13 Signs previously existed, it’s just that one got discarded [...]
Western Boots in Canada
Posted: January 7, 2011 in Surprise, Surprise!Tags: Alberta Canada, cowboy boots, Western boots
COWBOY WISDOM: “The only thing that works harder than a cowboy is his boots.”
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 9,700 times in 2010. That’s about 23 full [...]
Mike Fletcher on History Television
Posted: November 24, 2010 in Surprise, Surprise!Tags: Dive Detectives, diving, Edmund Fitzgerald, Great Lakes, History Television, Mike Fletcher, Ontario, ship wrecks, treasure
a world-class professional diver
Crazy Heart and Men Who Stare At Goats
Posted: August 24, 2010 in Surprise, Surprise!Tags: Cary Grant, Crazy Heart, Dyan Cannon, George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Oceans Eleven, Oscars
Sorry about that title, but after watching the Oscars this year, I dutifully wrote down the names of three award winning movies I intended to see: The Hurt Locker, Crazy Heart and Precious. I went to Super A Video and read the descriptions of Precious and the Hurt Locker. Precious, there is no way I [...]
Some Good Blogs
Posted: August 24, 2010 in Surprise, Surprise!Tags: Americans, blogs, children, mother, photography, travel
As a relative newcomer to blogging, I do frequent wordpress.com and click on one or two headliners there, and Planet Mom is one of my favorites. I do howl with laughter at it, not only because I too have wee children, but because she’s just so damn funny. Melina Wentzel is a woman and a [...]
Let’s All Just….Stay In Bed for Today!!!
Posted: August 22, 2010 in Surprise, Surprise!Tags: alcohol, Double-Double, stay in bed, Tim Horton's
Yes, folks, today was “one of those days.” Let’s see, where should I start? First off, I broke yet another bottle of expensive alcohol, only this time I have no recollection of how I did it! I placed a case on the floor, went and inquired the status of it (turns out, it’s not out [...]
The Karate Kid Movies
Posted: June 8, 2010 in Surprise, Surprise!Tags: California, Jackie Chan, Jayden Smith, martial arts, Okinawa, Pat Morita, Ralph Macchio, the Karate Kid
It’s Mr. Myagi, trying to catch a fly with chop sticks! One of the most prevailing images that pops into my head immediately whenever anyone brings up the subject of the Karate Kid movie or makes a joke reference to that movie, is that of Ralph Macchio balancing on top of the big post on [...]
