Good ol’ Woodford never fails to disappoint. If there is a slight chance of flurries in the area, it is a definite for here. Today marks our first snowfall of the Fall. I could hear students outside getting excited about it and running around after classes were over.
Of course my little sister calls us up to tell us that it is 18 C down in balmy New Brunswick..
We have been blessed a couple of nice warm fall days over the Thanksgiving weekend. We went for a walk and Naomi got a rare photo of me in front of the lens. And with Ellie!
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I don’t know why I can’t seem to sleep in anymore. The days that my alarm is set I can hit the snooze button five times before getting up. On days that I don’t have to get up I wake up about 10 minutes before my alarm would normally go off.. and I am wide awake! Irony is annoying.
Anyway.. I didn’t sleep in on Saturday morning of Thanksgivings Day weekend, and I decided that I would take off for a few hours to see some of the sights of a cold Fall morning in Ontario.
The fall colours this year are not very vibrant. I think it is because it has been warmer and we only had our first frost two nights ago. It is still beautiful, but we don’t see as many reds as in previous years.
Ever wonder why leaves change colour?
This morning I found myself in the shower with no soap. All I could find was this bottle of Secret Cottage: Sweet Summer Aloe & Cucumber Moisturizing Body Wash [Shampooing Hydratant]. My wife happened by and when I explained that there was no soap, she handed me a bottle of Mango Splash [with Moisturizing Cocoa Butter] Hydrating Body Wash.
Neither of these are soap. It is something called a “body wash” (which I think is marketing speak for things that used to be soap). Why is everything now some type of salad soap? If I wanted to smell like fruits or vegetables, I’d go and roll around in the produce aisle at the store.
And when you are in the shower, do you really need to be hydrated or made more moist?
Can you really get clean with this stuff? Can’t I just get a good ol’ industrial human degreaser? Whatever happened to soap?
A facinating map showing 5,000 years of history ofwar and land domination in the Middle East. Just about every major empire has overrun and occupied Israel at some point, yet the people, their culture, their identity, their religion remain.
He makes the nations great, then destroys them;
He enlarges the nations, then leads them away.Job 12:23
Courtesy Maps of War
