Monday Morning Musings

Posted on August 26, 2013 under Monday Morning Musings with 2 comments

Ah, life’s simple pleasures! We went on a very long hike over the weekend with our granddaughter at Beaver Mountain Park. This is another treasure that we have right in our back yard. If you haven’t been there , you should check it out. It is glorious in the summer and if you like cross country skiing, it is a treasure in the winter too. There are a few brooks that run through the park… a great place to play Pooh sticks. You don’t know how to play Pooh sticks ? Each player drops a stick on the upstream side of a bridge and the one whose stick first appears on the downstream side is the winner. There is an International Pooh Sticks championship held annually on the Thames River in England. I am not lying.

Tickets are now on sale for our big fundraiser coming up on September 26th. If you are reading this on my website, just click on the picture of me and Phil and you will find all the information about the event. People not reading this on my website, please go to www.week45.com. If you want to receive my stories regularly, just hit the “follow” button in the blackened area on the right of the home page. And speaking of my stories, I know a lot of people read them and occasionally I get comments. If you like a story and don’t have time to comment, please hit the” like” button.

The Eastern Nova Scotia Exhibition is just days away so I thought it only “fair” that I pen a story about this iconic institution. It is called “Fall Fare”. I don’t know if you have been following the story out of Ontario about the outbreak of food poisoning at their big exhibition, specifically the gourmet food “cronuts”. This is what got me thinking about our own Fall Fair and some of the delectable food served up every year. Can you say “cotton candy”? This story will also be appearing in next  week’s Casket.

And before you know it, school will be back in session. The population of our town will swell as more than 4,000 students from all over the world  start another academic year at St.F.X. I wrote a story a while ago while walking to work when the university was in session last Spring. It is called “Putting the Ant in Antigonish”. I noticed a long line of students walking down both sides of Hawthorne Street en route to campus. It did look like a colony of ants.

By the way, who votes this as “the best summer ever”? We have been blessed with amazing weather and by the looks of it, everyone took advantage of it.

Have a great weekend and I’m sure you know that next weekend is a holiday weekend. Woo hoo!!!

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