Many (well, at least TWO) of XE's most faithful readers live in Canada, and since today is their grand national holiday, here's wishing both of them a very happy Canada Day!!
Canada is a fascinating place.
It has the highest quality of life of any nation in the world!!
I love Canada. I don't know what they include in the quality of life measure, but it's always seemed to me to be a VERY CIVILIZED PLACE!!
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
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Thanks, ME!!!
We had a GREAT Canada Day!
We're 142 years old today. As Andrew H. Malcom put it, "It's going to be a great country when they finish unpacking it".
Every year, we unpack a bit more.
PS You're welcome up here ANY TIME. Although, I think the USA could use more MEs.
oh, i've tried more than once to fill out canada immigration's visa application, and if i were a doctor, they'd roll out the red carpet. as it is, they think the USA should keep me.
p.s. i saw something wonderful about cuba yesterday, and if i can find it again, i'll forward it to you. you and yr husband seem to have discovered just that thing (whatever it was)....
hope you got to light a sparkler!
WOOHOO! Thanks for the Canada Day wishes.... it was a dull, cool, rather showery day here, too bad really as everyone likes to party hearty on Canada's birthday.
I wandered down to the local park enjoyed some Canada Day cake, enjoyed the music of The Blackboard Blues Band (a terrific 12 piece band made up entirely of teachers) in the big tent, and then, with about 2000 other people, I watched some wonderful fireworks in the park. In other words I saw my tax money going up in smoke. But it was worth it.
I'd like to visit once in a while, too.
But the next-to-last time I did so, I became an involuntary guest of the U.S. Customs hut at Niagara Falls for three hours, and I'm not anxious to repeat the experience.
Of course, that was in 1970.
And I had long hair and a beard.
And I was driving a Volkswagen bug with flower stickers all over it.
And the address on my driver's license was "Berkeley, California."
Still, what a crass thing for those rentapigs to do, y'know? They even took the wheels off the car lookin' for, well, who knows what, right?
Anyway, Happy North American Democracies Week!
Sherwood.... you didn't say if they found anything????
yes, sherwood....tell all!!
Not much more than that to be told. We were young and foolish, but not terminally stupid.
It was almost worth the three hours just to see the looks on the customs guys' faces when they had to finally give up.
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