How insignificant man is....
and how arrogant to think we mean anything at all in world of the universe.
The Mothering Bundles in Toronto
1 week ago
| You can find this recipe and others at www.WatkinsOnline.com/Dewing |
Ingredients |
| 1/2 cup/125 mL butter or margarine, softened 1 cup/250 mL sugar 1 egg 1 tsp/5 mL Original Double Strength Vanilla Extract 1/2 tsp/2.5 mL Butter Extract, 59 mL 1 package (3 oz/85 g) cream cheese, softened 2-1/4 cups/550 mL all-purpose flour 1/2 tsp/2.5 mL Baking Powder 1/4 tsp/1.2 mL salt 1/8 tsp/0.6 mL baking soda 1/4 cup/60 mL Baking Cocoa 1 tsp/5 mL Cinnamon 170 g Wooden sticks |
| Cooking Directions |
In large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg and extracts; mix well. Stir in cream cheese, blending well. In small bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda. Stir into creamed mixture; blend well. Divide dough in half. Add cocoa to one half of dough, blending well. Add cinnamon to other half. Cover each half of dough with plastic wrap and chill 15 minutes or until firm enough to roll. Roll dough between waxed paper into 9-inch/23-cm squares. Place chocolate dough on top of cinnamon dough; roll up in jelly-roll fashion. Wrap tightly in plastic wrap; chill several hours or overnight. Cut roll into ¼-inch/6-mm slices; place on ungreased cookie sheet. Place wooden stick through edge into center, pressing to hold in place. Bake at 350°F/180°C for 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove from cookie sheet; cool completely on wire racks.
Makes 36 cookies. |
One is the Purest Granulated (not ground) Black Pepper in the 170g tin for only $11.99 (save $2.00) and another is our Purest Ground Cinnamon (all natural) in the 170g tin for only $8.99 (save $1.00).
Anyway, he was complaining because China has just put something like a 22% tariff on cars made in the USA and he feels this is wrong. I don’t agree with it either but isn’t this pretty much the same thing that the US is doing with its “Buy American” policy? Aren’t we all just trying to discourage or block people from buying products from another country? Free trade my butt….
Don’t get me wrong… I agree that you should support your own Community-Area-Province-Country first, but at some price point or other we all say forget it. I try to support Manitoulin first but primarily I just go by what it’s going to cost me… but some people really take this stuff seriously. I personally feel that the reason that so many of our products come from other countries is because of the power that unions have here. Without them our costs would be dramatically lower than they are now and we would ALL be able to “Buy Canadian” only instead of importing the cheap, lead filled, toxic and uncontrolled products from other parts of the world. It’s great to “Buy Local” but compare the costs and it changes everything.
I suppose every generation needs their Woodstock but…
Has the banking system gotten out of hand? Yes, of course it has. Being able to give out multiple loans on money they don’t have just puts everything into a spiral that goes only one way… down. Add to that the compound interest on the interest on the interest on the interest and so on that has to be paid in larger and larger amounts has only one end… world wide financial disaster… and it’s coming. We will all be caught up in it. There will be no safe haven for our nest eggs and inflation will destroy the value of our cash no matter if we have it in our mattress or local bank vault.
Anyway, I believe the problem with recent public events is that the authorities have allowed it to get out of hand from day one. Yes, people have the right to lawful assembly but I’ve yet to see a public park that didn’t have signs posted stating “No Overnight Camping” or something to the effect. These people are nothing but squatters and should have been treated as such from the get go.
I’ve spent some time recently checking out the new Bebamikawe Memorial Trails in Wikwemikong. The first excursion was on the longer 4.4km “Red” trail and it made for great outing. It’s a bit slippery and steep in places but the view from the top made it worthwhile.




We’ve had a new visitor lately, a Flying Squirrel that of course I’ve named Rocky. (You’re old enough to remember why, right?) He (or she) appears just about every night between 9:45 and 10:00 and only stays long enough to fill his cheek pouches with sunflower seeds just once and then disappears until the following night.
I haven’t seen one of these things in years and it’s quite a novelty to me. It has the complete opposite attitude to the daytime red squirrels that used to drive me crazy before they learned to stay away or else. Those characters would just keep hauling seed until it was all gone and were always nervous for some reason… heh, heh, heh. This little fellow will watch us, looking in through the windows while we watch him looking out through the windows. If I open the door to the deck he takes off fast enough but as long as we study him quietly he appears to be doing the same to us.As “Canada’s 12th Wonder” Manitoulin Island holds a number of Canadian and world distinctions that we encourage you to explore when you visit our area. This blog is a collection of personal ramblings, comments and observations gathered first while traveling around the country for The North West Company and now during my retirement years on Manitoulin Island as an Independent Associate with Watkins. Feel free to comment, I thank you for stopping by and hope to hear from you soon!