Words and Warnings
I like to bake. Usually I just grab the flour and use it. But I couldn’t help notice the new packaging this time. It was no special type of flour, just your regular run-of-the-mill whole wheat stuff. It was exactly what the words on the front said it was:
But check out the back of the bag. Below the ingredients list there’s that very helpful orange exclamation mark so you can’t miss the allergy warning.
Because OMG apparently if you have a wheat allergy you need to be told that your whole WHEAT flour actually contains something called WHEAT!!
Good thing you were warned.
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Me and Some Girl on TV
Driving home last night from parts further south, I was stopped on a minor highway between two small Ontario towns. Cars and vans and miscellaneous vehicles lined both sides of the road, and a huge blinding spotlight was illuminating spooky fog swirls up ahead. I expected a R.I.D.E check but that wasn’t it.
We weren’t moving at all. Cars in front of me turned around and went back. After debating whether or not to do the same, to trust the road sign at the intersection I’d just crossed and detour on a road I’d never driven on before, I too turned around. Oh, sure, now some guy puts up a road closed sign. But I also saw a couple other guys on the side of the road dressed similarly in odd whitish/grey outfits. I decided to ask them what was going on as I drove by.
The answer? Filming for some TV show, I was told. Then the guy said, “Hey, you look like Being Erica‘s Erica.
I laughed, said thanks, and went on my way. I was thinking either the guy needs glasses or it was the fact that
- it was dark out
- and drizzling rain
- and I asked the question through the passenger side window while sitting in the driver’s seat so he couldn’t see clearly
Still, it’s okay to be mistaken for the star of a TV show who happens to be only 32. Hah!
(I confess to recognizing “Being Erica” as the title of a CBC TV show but it’s not one I’ve ever watched. I had to look it up today. The premise sounds cool. I might just have to check it out now.)
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G8…Gr8?
Between the natural world throwing us an earthquake yesterday, last night’s tornado off to the southwest of me, severe thunderstorm warnings here this morning (which amounted to only heavy rain, thankfully), and all the security and shenanigans associated with the G8, things here have been rather interesting lately.
Yesterday my kids came home excited to tell me about the military helicopter that landed across from the school and how everyone in a couple classroom portables abandoned their desks and ran outside for a better look. I guess some guy told them to get back and it took off again. The kids got a talking to from their teacher too.
And yesterday three very loud helicopters flew over the house a couple times. Those things are loud! The wildlife in my backyard was not too impressed. The low flying copters scared at least one heron and a turtle. I initially put the quake shake down to another flyover. Oops!
I know these things are necessary with an event such as the G8 and the important people attending it, but it’s a very odd juxtaposition to have such a technological military/security presence in such a rural region known for being a get-away-from-it-all vacation destination. Makes me appreciate the time when the peepers were my biggest noise complaint:
And I am fortunate that things will return to normal in just a matter of days.
G8?
Gr8
2 appreciate
1’s normal state
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Pansy Personality
Where did the week go? Been wearing the titles chauffeur, spectator, and convalescent this week. About to be immersed in the volunteer world of figure skating for a few days (don’t ask). So just a quick post of these photos snapped within the last couple days.
Some plants just seem to have personality, don’t you think?
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