We live in cycles even as modernity trys to drive them out. With the fall comes the quietening of the FM band so that weak but neighbouring NPR comes in clearly without the irritation of co-channel soft rock stations from Ottawa. With each week comes the end of the week and the end of work if only for a time. In the day there are the three parts of plot: the beginning, middle and end. Some points in these cycles of cyles seem exceedingly good and just like I notice - since the digital clock became common when I was exactly nine - when it is 12:34 pm more than most times, I notice how good 8:21 am on a Saturday is when there isn't much planned. Cheese toasts!
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Comments
Flea - October 14, 2006 2:37 PM
My big decision today is to decide which inconveniently located Loblaws I must travel to in order to track down some Pilgrim's Choice cheese.
Alan - October 14, 2006 4:38 PM
We must be separated at birth, you getting all the haberdasheriffic style as I hunted out Loblaws cheese today but found little worth glowing about. I was quite shocked how Beer Store it was - lots of selection but not much variety. I headed to my local Polish deli to renew my faith in mankind.
Flea - October 14, 2006 5:52 PM
No Loblaws for me in the end. I went to the St. Lawrence Market instead. Lots of cheese to think about but the closest thing I could find was an over-priced Guiness-laced cheddar I had tried in the past. At least my usual steak and kidney pies were in stock. Also, and this was the big score of the day, I picked up a 750ml bottle of amber maple syrup at the weekly farmer's market for eleven bucks. This is an excellent price for maple syrup in downtown Toronto even if I always balk at the stuff having been raised making our own on my parent's property. Note to self: make subtle hints to parental units how they should consider taking up syrup production again as a hobby.
Flea - October 14, 2006 5:54 PM
Scratch the "kidney" part. It was my usual steak and mushroom pies on hand. They almost never have steak and kidney due to Canadian anti-nephrophagism.
cm - October 14, 2006 6:36 PM
I'm sure I purchased steak and kidney pies last time I was down there. As for the maple syrup, my parents have never made their own but have always had friends who did and will easily spare a mickey for their eldest.
Alan - October 14, 2006 7:01 PM
I have this maple syrup source through the in-laws who only provides smokey dark which is made from sap filtered though old...private garments. If it did not glaze lamb leg so well I would be concerned.
gorthos - October 14, 2006 11:53 PM
I missed the Man U game because I was frigging with my blog, but the thought of cheese was obviously calming my mind as when sent to the local cheese facrtory to get butter for some maple roasted carrots my wife made (for Thanksgiving Part II wit the Inlaws) I picked up some of their "salsa" cheese. Ick. Ivanhoe regular cheese is passable (and 5 minutes away) as Canadian fromage but not as good as Mapledale 5 year old cheddar.
gorthos - October 14, 2006 11:55 PM
Mmm.. steak and kid pie. My wife the Farm Girl balks at my eating of the innards but when I can find it I do. Mayhap I will make one myself next weekend. Alan, would you like some sent to you roffice the following moonday?