Archive for November, 2008

Gorden Lightfoot – Love and Maplesyrup

Found a nice video on youtube. At the beginning of the video it looks like they are filming birch trees rather than sugar maples but you be the judge. I remember going to seeing Gorden Lightfoot in Orillia it was a great concert but I am not the biggest fan. Orillia was also a bit of a drag, we got into a bar fight with these guys we were hanging around with all night. They seems great at the time but when they had a few too may they went off.  But I digress, enjoy.

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Syrup as a commodity

I ran into this story about a shortage of maple syrup due to a new cook book by a Nigella Lawson. If you have syrup to sell to the UK now might be the time. It is funny because the recipt only calls for about 80ml of syrup. They are calling this the Nigella effect.  I just goes to show that when there is a demand for Maple Syrup it can shoot up at a moments notice.

Read the whole story here: Nigella effect strikes again as sales on maple syrup soar.

I also wanted to find out more about the industry on maple syrup in Ontario and Canada. I found the Statistics Canada commodity number which is 17022020 but that is about it.

Maybe I will pay the 3 bucks and get the report some day.


New Url – New Site

Hello

I have been working to create a new theme for this site and I think it looks pretty good. Word press is a very powerful and helpful tool for web developers. I want to put a bit more work into this site to see if I can keep it going all year. I found this fun little picture in my travels in cyber space.

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Someone was not thinking when they put this picture together!