Happy Canada Day!!
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Waiting for the Canada Day parade to begin
Watching the parade
Brothers
Have a great Canada Day!
Archive of ‘Canadian’
A BEAR!! In the Backyard!!
Friday, June 20th, 2008Just now, we, along with Nana and Papa, watched this big fellow for a while in the back field. He kept lying down and then disappeared.
At the River
Saturday, June 14th, 2008
All the close-ups of the children are in a private post.
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Canadian Twenty With a Red Stamp
Thursday, June 12th, 2008I came across a “Where’s Willy” bill yesterday, and just logged it. It had been over 300 days since the last time its journey was recorded.
Sunday
Monday, May 19th, 2008In the middle of the sermon yesterday, L3 rubbed his eye and got his top eyelashes stuck underneath his eyelid. Hello for a commotion with me trying to get his lashes free. We sit near the front, so dear knows what everyone was thinking I was doing to him. He also had a choke fest on his cup of water. I keep forgetting to teach C6 that you don’t turn around to look at the people behind you. And how many times should a child be allowed to ask, “Is it almost over?”
The sermon text scripture included the tag-line to my site, “That the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.” Romans 8:21 The responsive reading included one of my favorite verses, “He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.” Psalm 145:19
Grammie made a nice chicken dinner for all of us after church.
Then we went up the river to pick fiddleheads. Unfortunately, it was the beginning of the season, so there weren’t very many around. We did get enough for about four meals or more.
Fiddlehead picking in NB
Kind of dreary, huh.
You just wait, it will soon be the most beautiful place on earth.
Here are my and C6’s rubber boots.
Is that mud on our jeans?
Spring Fishing
Friday, May 2nd, 2008We live along a beautiful salmon-fishing river. My grandfather and his brothers have guided sports fishermen for years. They tend to come from America or Germany to fish in our river. Yesterday, the water was higher and swifter than usual, and it happened that a boat with two men on board capsized. One of the fishermen was an 85-year-old man with a pacemaker. They floated down the river, clinging to their upside-down boat. My 86-year-old great-uncle happened to be guiding and rescued the two men. With great difficulty, Uncle Danny kept the old man above the water, and encouraged the other man who almost gave up. Fortunately other people helped when they floated further down the river.
Freedom’s Home
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
In days of yore, from Britain’s shore,
Wolfe, the dauntless hero, came
And planted firm Britannia’s flag
On Canada’s fair domain!
Here may it wave, our boast, our pride,
And join in love together,
The Thistle, Shamrock, Rose entwine,
The Maple Leaf forever.The Maple Leaf, our emblem dear,
The Maple Leaf forever!
God save the King and Heaven bless
The Maple Leaf forever!At Queenston Heights and Lundy’s lane
Our brave fathers side by side
For freedom’s right and loved ones dear
Firmly stood and nobly died.
And those dear rights which they maintained
We swear to yield them never
Our watchword evermore shall be
The Maple Leaf forever.Our fair dominion now extends
From Cape Race to Nootka Sound;
May peace forever be our lot
And plenteous store abound;
And may those ties of love be ours
Which discord cannot sever,
And flourish green o’er Freedom’s home
The Maple Leaf forever.On merry England’s far-famed land
May kind Heaven sweetly smile;
God bless old Scotland evermore
And Ireland’s Emerald isle.
Then swell the song both loud and long,
Till rocks and forest quiver;
“God save our King and Heaven bless
The Maple Leaf forever!”
April Snow
Sunday, April 13th, 2008We woke up this morning to this:
Edited to add:
And after a walk at the park, we learned that Nana’s tulips were up - behind a melting mountain of snow.
What Happened to Freedom of Speech in Canada?
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008The Canadian conservative blogosphere is under attack
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/03/05/the-canadian-conservative-blogosphere-is-under-attack/
Free speech fund-raiser: The Canadian conservative blogosphere under attack
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/04/09/free-speech-fund-raiser-the-canadian-conservative-blogosphere-under-attack/
