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Old 07-01-2012, 08:13 AM
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Happy Canada Day! Thanks, Google!
Happy Canada Day, everyone!

We even got a google doodle - a crowned beaver!
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Old 07-01-2012, 08:20 AM
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Happy Canada Day!

The BBQ is started, ready to slow smoke ribs all day long to torment the neighbors and the weather is perfect. I love summer.

And in honour of Canada day I give you Take off! with Bob & Doug and Geddy Lee.
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Old 07-01-2012, 08:28 AM
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Happy Canada Day, neighbours! Go stand on Saturna Island or Tumbo Island, and I'll stand in my driveway and we'll wave at each other! Or I'll wave to White Rock as I drive along Drayton Harbor!

OK, I know you might not be into it; but I, personally like Stompin' Tom Connors. I tried, but I couldn't resist posting the link.

Lots of fireworks last night, but we didn't walk down to the beach to watch them. The cat didn't seem to be bothered. I have a feeling he might hide under the bed for our Independence Day. Then it sounds like a war zone here.
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Old 07-01-2012, 08:53 AM
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And in honour of Canada day I give you Take off! with Bob & Doug and Geddy Lee.
Good idea, eh! fixed the link
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Old 07-01-2012, 09:19 AM
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Today - putter around the garden for the whole day!

Tomorrow - a day at the beach with my best friend, then a bbq dinner!

Happy Canada Day to all!
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Old 07-01-2012, 09:26 AM
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Since we're posting links: Rick Mercer: "Everything you always wanted to know about Canada, but were afraid to ask."
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Old 07-01-2012, 12:59 PM
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Crank up the Oscar Peterson, Neil Young, Natalie McMaster, Glenn Gould, Robbie Robertson, Gordon Lightfoot, Triumph, Nelly Furtado, and Barkenaked Ladies! Oh, and don't forget Men Without Hats!
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Old 07-01-2012, 01:11 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWQf13B8epw

(I'm wretched at the link thing, forgive me if it's wrong!)

Link to a song called "Wanna be Canadian!"

(Filmed right here in lovely London, Ontario, by a couple of graduate students from the local University.)
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Old 07-01-2012, 01:58 PM
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Oh gods, just when I got that song out of my head you had to go and-

Went to the flag-raising today & stayed to hear the whatever-number-it-is Highlanders. Now time to frig off to the beach. 32 feeakin' degrees here- yay!
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Old 07-03-2012, 11:01 PM
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Sorry, late to the party. Happy Canada Day!

We have a little holiday of our own today, down here....
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Old 07-03-2012, 11:17 PM
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Sorry, late to the party. Happy Canada Day!

We have a little holiday of our own today, down here....
Oh, really? Celebrating what occasion?

Seriously, Elendil's Heir, hope you have a great Independence Day!
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Old 07-04-2012, 12:52 PM
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Those Americans and their quaint little holidays...
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Old 07-04-2012, 01:09 PM
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Why don't you guys join us! Do you guys really need the UK anymore?

Imagine a whole continent lighting off explosives.
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Old 07-04-2012, 01:12 PM
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Imagine a whole continent lighting off explosives.
When we think we might want to join up with y'all, we do think of this.

Just more in an 'us getting blown up by all your guns' kind of way!
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Old 07-04-2012, 01:16 PM
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Sounds like you guys could use a 2nd Amendment.
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Old 07-04-2012, 01:24 PM
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Why don't you guys join us! Do you guys really need the UK anymore?
But...but...who would we put on our coins then?
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Imagine a whole continent lighting off explosives.
Okay, that does sound cool!
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Old 07-04-2012, 05:14 PM
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Sounds like you guys could use a 2nd Amendment.
Thank you for the offer, but we'll pass. We kinda love sanity
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Old 07-04-2012, 09:58 PM
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Thank you for the offer, but we'll pass. We kinda love sanity
And much, much lower gun violence rates, I daresay.
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Old 07-04-2012, 11:43 PM
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True. But even without guns, we have our own brand of crazy. See, for example, Luka Magnotta, Vince Weiguang Li, and Robert Pickton
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