Topic: Happy Kat!
Happy Happy Joy Joy! According to the menu page, Pizza Pizza is now serving pizza made with a Gluten Free Crust. I Kan Haz Pizza!!! Here is the menu page from their website, and it says that the gluten free crust is chain wide. Now I can have pizza when we go to Toronto as there is a Pizza Pizza on almost every freaking corner, right beside the TenBux coffee place.
The weekend was nice. It rained on Saturday, like it always does. On Sunday we packed up the van and went off to Goderich. The drive was quite nice, albeit a little slow all the way to Stratford. The drive takes us through farm country and the summer of rain has turned the countryside a rich lush deep green. The forests are all deep green Mirkwoods, with the tree tops so dense that the forest floors are in perpetual dark with little other than the occasional wildflower as a beacon in the dark. The fields were green and gold, no failed crops, no bare earth, a surprisingly little storm damage.
The beach was quite nice. We prefer the beach that's beside the salt mine and the channel to the harbour. If we are really lucky we can see one of the big great lake freighters come in for salt. Guess what? We were lucky! A 200+meter behemoth came into the channel and stopped for a load of salt. It was one of the big Algoma Central ships for Sault Ste Marie. It wasn't as big as the Edmund Fitzgerald, the ship of legend and song. Yes, I did see the Edmund while it was sailing.
It was when i was a kid, and we were in Sault Ste Marie to visit relatives. We always made one trip to the locks to see the ships pass through. This day the US locks, the ones that handle the biggest ships; were closed for construction. The lock master said a big ship was due to arrive in half and hour and it was worth the wait, one of the largest on the lakes. We waited and were rewarded with a ship named Edmund Fitzgerald, a ship almost too big for the smaller Canadian side locks. It scraped the sides and it filled to lock end to end. It passed from Huron to Superior, meaning it began at the bottom of the lock and it rose up to the top. Then it went off into the river and many years later into history and song.
The ship first appeared as a huge black blob, it's forecastle appearing over the horizon before the rest of the ship. It was big enough far away and soon the pier along the channel was filled with people. We watched in come int the channel with two tug boats pushing it into place. It's quite impressive and if you want to see some pictures I posted then all on facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=5293&l=1f9b1&id=1076626334
I wanted to take pictures of the family, instead I took more pictures of the ship! We all had a good time, we all got a little bit sun kissed and we all got a little bit of beach sand in places where we didn't want sand. the water was as warm as Lake Huron can get and my new bikini bathing suit worked well. No one ran screaming from the beach. In all honesty, i don't know why i worry, there were plenty of women far larger than me in far skimpier suits.
Yesterday Dan was tied up with homework. He's still officially enrolled in college and he has to prepare frequent co-op internship reports with his professors and he's a bit behind, so yesterday gave him a chance to catch up. Me, Dave and Ben went off to a few places to look for some fresh picked in the morning corn on the cob. We went to a place on Erb Street, it was at one time someone's garage, then it was a small stand in front of the house, now it's a big store with a website, which you can see here: http://www.herrles.com/index.htm it's much bigger now and smells like pies fresh from the oven. We got some special extra sugar enhanced super sweet with a whole bunch of small letters behind the hybrid name bi colour corn with a minimum 50% sugar content. None of that stuff matters, all I know is that it was the sweetest corn I have ever tasted! And as a bonus, it keeps its sugar content for over a week before it turns to starch. Wow! It was also quite expensive, 5$ a dozen, but well worth it.
And that's all for now. I have nothing to do today, and most of the day to do it in. That's cool, and doesn't happen very often. So I'll get out my art stuff and spend the day painting. Later!
