Sep 8 2022 - School Days - What to wear

 

Here are nine trends for children in back to school fashion for 2022: Wide-leg pants Barbiecore Matching athleisure  Platform shoes Belt bags Oversized sweaters Tie dye Bucket hats Head to toe denim My favourite trend is the platform shoes - the platforms are on the top of running shoes.   Think Nike and think expensive.  And what about "athleisure" - isn't that a great expression - hybrid clothing is what it is considered - for athletic activities and in other settings.  Think leggings as that seems to be the dominant item.  The barbiecore trend is how to wear pink.  It is considered a much-welcomed mood-booster for 2022.  Embrace those vibrant hues.  "Barbiecore is for everyone - not just back to school. " School uniforms? Here in Ontario they exist in the Roman Catholic school system and in private schools.  There are advertisements for trendy school uniforms as well.  I'm not sure how that would work.   Do you remember what you wore on one of your first days of school?  This likely applies to women more than men.

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June 13 20321 - No Slipping Up

 

Are you ready for banana peel bacon?  I expect this is the sort of thing that gives vegans the reputation for weird food.  Banana peels are trending now more than ever.   Here it is:  Scrape off the white inside part of very ripe banana peels, then marinade it in soy sauce, maple syrup, smoked paprika for 10 minutes to a few hours. Heat oil in the skillet, add the peels until golden and bubble up a little. They get crispier as they cool.  As I mentioned, banana peels are trending.  So many ways to eat them and things to do with banana peels. There's banana peel vegan pulled pork sandwiches, banana peel vinegar, banana peel flour.  And you can polish your silver, whiten your teeth, relieve itchy skin.   I wonder about vegan eating.  I notice is how vegan eating articles are focused on meat.  Are we by nature meat eaters and veganism is unnatural?  I hadn't thought that: my own theory is that we are protein and fat lovers.  But vegan articles seem to obsess on meat replacements.  One article shows you vegan haggis, vegan peking duck vegan shrimp, vegan sushi, vegan steaks, meat-less vegan jerky, vegantoona, black seaweed-caviar, and butter chik'un.    There is lots of evidence of weird combinations proposed in vegan cooking.  An article proposes avocado and chocolate, apples and hummus, pickles and peanut butter, pomegranate and guacamole.  It goes on with more of these sorts of combinations.  They look like things that fraternity parties would serve in U.S. colleges. This is the month of roses and rose bushes have more flowers than I can remember seeing in the past.  Today's picture is a garden in Queenston.

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May 6 2020 - Horoscopes or Sinkholes - News today

Searching for news today?  Your horoscope comes up on top. Can a horoscope be news?   The Times of India thinks it is and is predicting some long distance travel.  The Chicago Sun Times horoscope has a "Moon Alert" which is:  We have the all clear to shop and do business.  The moon is in Scorpio.  Should we thank the moon in Scorpio for opening up the stores? On the other hand, there is real news in terms of it being sinkhole season.  Spring and summer are the worst because frozen water underneath the surface will start to flow again.  A sinkhole in Central Saanich B.C. was in the news yesterday.  You know the headline:  It just opened up!  That's because that's what sinkholes do. There are permanent world wonder sinkholes.  The one that comes to mind is the Great Blue Hole - a giant submarine sinkhole in Belize.   Here's a picture of the Great Blue Hole - just over a thousand feet across and 407 feet deep and within a massive reef that can be seen from space.  It was made famous by Jacques Cousteau in 1971 who brought his ship, the Calypso to chart it.     The top fives is a YouTube channel with video of 5 sinkholes - two of the videos are real-time with the sinkhole consuming a dump trunk, and then opening up in a highway full of cars.  The video is Here.  Today's picture is a calmer sight, and was taken last Friday in Queenston.  This is the historic town of Laura Secord who saved the country, and William Lyon MacKenzie whose printing press is the oldest in Canada. Here's one of its prettiest  heritage houses with an ancient Magnolia tree in the front.

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Twelve Months a Year - Fishing in Niagara

The Lower Niagara River can be fished 12 months a year, and someone was out fishing a few weeks ago.  There are a lot of varieties of fish. Chinook and coho salmon, steelhead (rainbow trout), walleye, small mouth bass, white bass, carp, catfish, yellow perch and carp.  There are even Muskellunge and Northern Pike. There are sturgeon though these are endangered.  The deepest section below the falls is 170 feet deep, just below the Falls.  That's the same as the height of the Falls themselves.  I was curious how deep the sections of river are for the pictures we're looking at today. The first is the scenic look-out at Queenston - it faces towards Lake Ontario.  The second looks towards the Niagara Falls - this is the Queenston Bridge in the distance.  Our final image shows the Queenston docks withe the ubiquitous fisherman.

Be Aware of the Cat

In Queenston, a beautiful little town close-by to Niagara-on-the-Lake and Niagara Falls.  It is located on the Niagara River.  This is an old town and it was settled in the 1770's.  It is famous for being the homestead of Laura Secord  and the death place of Sir Isaac Brock during the war of 1812. 

Queenston marks the southern terminus of the Bruce Trail. The cairn marking the terminus of the trail is in a parking lot, about 160 metres (520 ft) from General Brock's Monument on the easterly side of the monument's park grounds.