Blog Archives: April, 2006
Elmira Maple Syrup Festival
Tapped maple trees On April 1, I went to the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival, held in the town of Elmira, Ontario, which is not far from Waterloo. This wasn’t an April Fool’s Day joke; every year, the town of Elmira welcomes what must be tens of thousands of people to celebrate the maple syrup harvest. My housemates and I got up at the ungodly early hour of 6 am. We drove to Elmira, got on the back of a trailer to go into town, and proceeded to have pancakes and, what else, maple syrup for breakfast. 
Pancakes at the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival We visited a maple syrup bush and saw sap evaporating to syrup, and were home by noon. More pictures up here.
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Harper’s Nose
Solomon Buster Sitar and Stephen Harper This photo (from the CBC) of Stephen Harper is probably on the cover of a few national newspapers this morning. Aside from the amusement of seeing Stephen Harper get his nose tweaked on every newstand in Canada, it has a personal note: the baby is one Solomon Buster Sitar, the nephew of my good friend here in Waterloo, Scott Sitar. So I’ve got a Harper Nose Tweak Number of 3.
Update 2006/04/25: This has been all over the newspapers, with lots of editorial cartoons as well.
