Happy Canada Day

[BiscuitHammer]

If there are any authors out there who are fellow Canuckleheads, I hope you're enjoying this day in your tiny social bubble safely.

Chug maple syrup, enjoy real beer, snarf poutine, and keep fighting for universal rights and equality.

- Biscuit Hammer (Savagely Canadian)

 

[Enchantment_of_Nyx]

If there are any authors out there who are fellow Canuckleheads, I hope you're enjoying this day in your tiny social bubble safely.

Chug maple syrup, enjoy real beer, snarf poutine, and keep fighting for universal rights and equality.

- Biscuit Hammer (Savagely Canadian)

Happy Canada Day to you, you savage Canadian!

 

[Candy_Kane54]

If there are any authors out there who are fellow Canuckleheads, I hope you're enjoying this day in your tiny social bubble safely.

Chug maple syrup, enjoy real beer, snarf poutine, and keep fighting for universal rights and equality.

- Biscuit Hammer (Savagely Canadian)

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"Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!"

 

[SimonDoom]

Happy Canada Day to all Canadian Lit folks!

 

[KeithD]

I'm not Canadian, but cheers to Canada Day. I was there in October. I great place.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Toi aussi, BH!

 

[yowser]

More than once I have wished I was in possession of a Canadian passport...

Congratulations, Northern Neighbors.

Live well.

 

[SamScribble]

Happy fireworks, girls and boys of the North

 

[ElectricBlue]

Put an extra bowl of milk out for the moose .

 

[SimonDoom]

Put an extra bowl of milk out for the moose .

I figured the moose in Canada drank beer!

 

[ElectricBlue]

I figured the moose in Canada drank beer!

Gotta cater for your teetotal moose and those who don't lick trees.

 

[R. Richard]

Wait a minute The moose are organized, they even have a club.

 

[Vix_Giovanni]

Happy Canada Day!
We’re celebrating here by listening to some Drake and Ann Murray

 

[BelleCanzuto]

Happy Canadia Day!

(Y'all should prolly keep the border closed a while yet...)
I do miss real maple syrup and the Ontarian pronunciation of "sorry"

 

[sirhugs]

I didn't even get woken up at midnight by fireworks, what gives?

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Thanks everyone, eh?

 

[TarnishedPenny]

I didn't even get woken up at midnight by fireworks, what gives?

Fireworks tonight. I suspect the delay might have been to allow some hope of the rain we've been having almost non-stop for the past fortnight to end.

They're supposed to be 'extra high' so people will be able to see them from a long way off and thus won't have to crowd.

Edit. How foolish of me. The ones tonight are not a delayed Canada Day display, they're the usual Stampede fireworks.

 

[sirhugs]

Fireworks tonight. I suspect the delay might have been to allow some hope of the rain we've been having almost non-stop for the past fortnight to end.

They're supposed to be 'extra high' so people will be able to see them from a long way off and thus won't have to crowd.

Edit. How foolish of me. The ones tonight are not a delayed Canada Day display, they're the usual Stampede fireworks.

without the usual Stampede.

 

[Piscator]

They're the usual Stampede fireworks.

without the usual Stampede.

Another covid-19 story in the making

 

[TarnishedPenny]

without the usual Stampede.

Another covid-19 story in the making

Yup. Six years ago, my city got hit by a monstrous flood. A quarter million people were forced to evacuate, thousands of homes were destroyed and it cost billions of dollars to repair the damage. We still had a Stampede. Now something you cannot even see has forced the first cancellation in a century.

 

[Piscator]

Stampede Fireworks

The usual Stampede fireworks,
without the usual Stampede.

I read that and felt a pang of nostalgia as
I grew up in Calgary and can’t imagine a
July without the Stampede, although
as a mildly agoraphobic personality,
even though I’m not sure can one have
a mild case of “having an extreme fear
of entering open or crowded places”
Anyway, I must admit that at a certain
age the midway magnet drew me in
and I’d inset my allowance coin
into the digger machine’s slot and
carefully manoeuvre the shovel
only to loose the prize at the last
second and so on to the rides, my
favourite was the Graviton but
that was well before all those
accidents and multi-party lawsuits.
To be honest I wasn’t all that
interested in the calf roping, bronco
and bull riding or chuckwagon races.
In my teens, we went for the concerts,
I remember seeing Valdy there and
later that week we went to see him in a
small downtown bar, where he may have
had even more to drink that we did.

While here in South Western Ontario, where
the nearest Chuckwagon is a small diner
in Woodstock, which seems to have good
reviews, although with covid-19 regulations,
it’s take out only but again I digress.
Anyhow, the Township canceled the
fireworks display here too, which made
the dogs happy, as they don’t like loud
noises and the community centre is just
across the street, though it’s cool to watch
them from our second story bedroom while
making love but then S was away that
night anyway.


I’m still waiting for my test results, which
I’m pretty sure is just seasonal allergies as
I usually have a bit of a runny nose this time
of year and S is a bit pissed because our son
was going to come over for the weekend.
But is not a biggie because he’s
good for next weekend too.
I just hope that I am.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Stampede Fireworks

The usual Stampede fireworks,
without the usual Stampede.

Your presentation, Piscator (presumably written on mobile phone?) makes this wonderfully poetic, with a whole different nuance. 5 stars .

 

[Piscator]

Your presentation, Piscator (presumably written on mobile phone?) makes this wonderfully poetic, with a whole different nuance. 5 stars .

Thanks eledticblue, sorry but my fingers have enough problems with a keyboard, and my kids laugh at my typo filled texts, but this did come fairly fast once it started.