Burt's Bees is NOT the bee's knees!

I always have a story, but this one involves shopping. While I do not like to hock things online, I feel compelled to speak up as a consumer.  So, please bear with me, or delete! I am a B=I=G promoter of ALL things New Brunswick.  I support local, regional, and provincial businesses and entrepreneurs.  I must.  By supporting local, I am supporting jobs for friends, family, neighbours and fellow Maritimers.  Hence my gin of choice is Thuyla, from Distillerie des Fils du Roi in Paquetville, my dog food for Vimy from Corey's in Fredericton, my lip gloss from Marr's Sweet Syrup in Fredericton, my maple syrup from Riordon Maple, Ganong's Chocolates and so on and so on.   My son's recent birthday present was a basket of goodies from New Brunswick: i.e. dulse, a Palomine chocolate bar, with other foods and craft items from all over the province.  It was a shame I couldn't bring him any blueberry beer though; it would have been too heavy in my suitcase.

All of which brings me to the story behind this blog.  I just LOVE Marr's Sweet Syrup lip balm. I have bought it in all ten flavours, and have given countless lip balms as small gifts. I was down to one lip balm when I lost that one, out on supervision one day in the school yard, a few weeks ago.  I thought it had fallen through a hole in my coat pocket.  I didn't know that hole was there. I was devastated. Honest! I searched all over that darn school yard.  I can't buy them locally so I had a friend pick me up a few in the Moncton area, and send them up to me through another friend who was coming to visit.  I have THE  most wonderful friends, don't I!  When I got home that night, I sewed up the hole in my pocket. There! I would never lose another lip balm again.

The other night I put on the same coat to go for a walk, on a gorgeously warm, and full moonlight night. I felt something in my pocket, cylindrical in shape.  What was it?  I searched my pocket. Nothing there. However, I could feel the object through the lining of my coat. E+U+R+E+K+A!  It was my lost lip balm, fallen NOT through the hole onto the ground, as I had thought, but between my coat and its' lining. Which means that, because that lining is ALL sewn up around the coat, it was IMPOSSIBLE for the lip balm to have fallen out onto the ground in the first place. Most women would have clued in right away, that the stick had to be stuck somewhere BETWEEN the lining and the coat. NOT yours truly.  I am not smart enough in that department, because a domestic goddess... I am NOT.   Not to mention that I can occasionally lack a little common sense and forward thinking. In my defense, I WAS sick and stressed at the time.  So, when I got home out came the scissors to snip a small hole in my pocket and pull out my lip balm.  It was worth it, to undo my sewing job.  I sew, resew, and undo.... A LOT!  Sewing is a tortuous endeavour for me. LOL

The real bee's knees?  My Marr's Sweet Syrup lip balm,so smooth and silky on your lips, not thick and pasty.  Where can you get this great product, you might ask?  Available at 99 percent of NEEDS convenience stores in NB, through Marr's website or through that shopping behemoth, AMAZON.  Try this lip balm! You will LOVE it!!  No, I have not been paid to mention them in this blog!