The Antique Show is a small show held in the public school, it's great because you get to look at the kids art hanging on walls of the halls as you wander from the gymnasium to the main halls where the booths are set up. There are always interesting items to see at this show and the same dealers are there ready to talk and help. The Antique Show is the kind that you could find something very special, I saw lots that I liked but nothing I had to have this year. Darn!
After viewing the Antiques we drove down the main street of Warkworth, it was busy and they had the little farm animals in a pen for the children to pet and see. Warkworth is beautiful and is set in a valley surrounded by some of the most awesome drumlins in the county. We spent many weekends going to Warkworth as kids, I am happy to see it full of life.
One stop on the Centre Street in Warkworth we made was at Mark Pollards building he bought a few years ago. It was an Masonic Hall and really needed someone like Mark to realize the buildings potential. Mark rents out the front of the store to Mrs. McGarrilge's Fine Foods and he bakes his Sprucewood Handmade Cookies in the back. By bringing his bakery to Warkworth he has created 12 jobs in the village, that makes a huge difference in local village life. For the Festival Mark opened the back and had samples of his famous shortbread and savoury cookies which were created to be eaten while drinking wine - sounds great to me!
Marks parents and my Mom were friends in the 60's after we moved to Cobourg, so we have all known each other for a long time. His Mom is a great lady and that day my Mom really enjoyed seeing and talking to Mark. She was thrilled to hear a 'Shirley' story and was beaming all the way home with the memory of it. Mark sells his cookies around world; Switzerland, Belgium, Harrod's in London, six stores in France including one in Paris, which as my sister said, if you can sell food to the French you are doing something right! His cookies sold out at the Olympics and they would have, could have, sold more. But once they were sold out, it was difficult to bring more in as the American's had set up HomeLand Security in Vancouver. He was not complaining though, he was very happy to be a part of the Olympic Games food palate. Click Sprucewood Cookies to see Mark on YouTube.
We did nothing related to Maple Syrup though!! What a hoot!
Today I went to see a friend who has tapped his trees, to get the scoop on maple syrup. It turns out the sap has stopped running. The nights are not cold enough for the sap to run. If temperatures are warmer and more consistent from day to night, then all the sap goes to the buds and we know what that means. Get the garden tools out!!
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