Simon and Fiona, hand in hand, follow the crowd and help carry stuff home.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Santa Parade '09
A great time was had by all.....Simon and Fiona wait to see Santa, Moppets got some PR, and the Lady Godiva Band played....well they tried.
Dad and Chloe wait for Santa....
Chiclets
Does anybody recall a (yellow) plastic chiclet dispensing machine in the kitchen in Stoney Creek?
I think it actually took pennies and gave out the little 2 packs like we used to see at Halloween.
anything?
What was that doing there? Where'd it come from? or did I dream it....
Friday, November 13, 2009
Flu Update - the finale
My turn. I knew it was too good to be true that I could walk through this illness unscathed.
Although it's been three weeks since we got the vaccines -- you'd think I be immune.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Lest we forget...
With the whole family working through the flu, it was prudent not to bundle us up and go to the the cenotaph yesterday. Susan had a brilliant idea to reflect on the cost of war. It's hard to put the cost into perspective. So she looked up the number of Canadians who died in WWII. Turns out to be 42,789. So we spend much of the day drawing one cross on a page for each Canadian who died in that war. Took about 4 hours, with all of us working at various paces through the day.
many blocks of crosses, some interwoven art and messages.
I found it particularly interesting that at one point, it really felt like I was drawing cemeteries on the countryside.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
the manners club kid
Judi Vankevich known as the MANNERS LADY was in town. We got to see her on concert and Fiona was part of the Manners Kids on stage!
with her are three of the neighbourhood gals who came along to the concert too!
Flu Update part III
Natalie is better. Benjamin is sick today.
I feel like a walking time-bomb waiting for my turn.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
musical notes
Further to Lorne's notes -- and because my excerpts were too long to fit on a notes section of the blog:
Probably both those songs caught Dad's attention as popular recordings of pieces that were easy to learn when he first learned to play guitar. Pete Seeger recorded a version of Jimmy Crack Corn that was probably in the mainstream radio playlist in the late 50's, and the same is true of a recording of Big Rock Candy Mountain by Burl Ives, whom I know Dad liked.
From Wikipedia, see further quite interesting info re:
