Sunday, March 21, 2010
Firecrotch, Sugarbush and Maple Fudge
Lately our group has felt like we don’t do too much here in Newmarket. So one day at work when I was compiling a spreadsheet of all the maple sugar festivals in Ontario, I came up with the idea that I should go to Wendy’s for lunch. I decided that making the nine minute walk for a Home-style Chicken strip combo was worth it so I left the office and walked through the forest which led to the fast food place known to me as heaven. While I was sitting there eating my upgraded combo sized fries, I came up with the idea that I should go to the convenience store for a pack of gum. Once I got to the store, I picked up my pack of Stride Gum and began to wait in line. It was there that I saw a bunch of cute beaver and moose key chains and then I had my epiphany. Why buy one pack of Stride gum for 1.19 when I could get five packs of excel gum for 4.49. I now have a lot of gum at my office along with Doritos, Mimi-eggs and Betty Crocker cupcake mix. Anyways upon returning to the office I got right back to work, which was to finish the list of maple syrup festivals in southern Ontario. Even though I was at work I couldn’t help but thinking about our groups’ dilemma of having nothing to do this, weekend. Near the end of the day my boss called me down to her office and we talked about my maple syrup festival spread sheet. We discussed how fun it would be to go and how it is the perfect way to spend a Saturday Afternoon. I think my boss is great. She always has so many great ideas and is someone who is super active and in tune with events happening in our community. I bid everyone at the office farewell and returned to the Katimavik house for a quiet evening of Loup-Garou and relaxing. Oh someone came up with a great idea to go to a Maple Sugar festival that weekend. It was really random. We went to the sugarbush, made a fire with this wilderness lady, Shoshana stood over the fire giving her the name firecrotch, and I bought some maple fudge which was way better anything Wendy’s could make…other than their baconator.
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If your work is compiling lists of Ontario maple syrup festivals, do you get paid for this? I've been doing this for free for years! So where is your list? Which festival did you attend? And why make a random choice after spending time collating info on the festivals?
ReplyDeleteMy research shows that Katimavik is a Canadian government supported youth program. It sounds like it has good motives. Your project leaders make at least $25,000 per year plus accommodation and food. For that I think that your work should somehow pay for itself.
If send me your spreadsheet I'll crosscheck it with my list and send you back the results. My goal is simply to promote Ontario maple syrup. I make no money doing this, if fact it costs me to maintain my websites.
What the feck is a mimi-egg?
ReplyDeleteShoshana: um its the better version of Mini Eggs!!! but only I can eat them because they are so awesome.
ReplyDeleteAl: Katimavik is a nationally funded program that helps Canadian Youth travel the country and volunteer with different Non-Profit organizations so I don't get paid. As for the contact list it is actually a tourism list of many of the bureaus in and around the Oak Ridges Moraine sorry for the confusion :)