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This is a long weekend in much of Canada...mostly referred to as the Civic Holiday Weekend.

When I was a kid, it was called Natal Day to celebrate the hometown's founding.

Natal Day Weekend was also commonly called Coon Christmas in those years...because it was the one weekend of the year when black people moved about the entire city and not just their part of town.

Pickup trucks filled with black kids would descend upon the Natal Day Fairgrounds...for most of us, it was the only time we saw black kids up close in numbers.

At night, some would walk home and experience white teens in their dad's cars playing a game called Broom a Coon, where you'd whack a black kid with a broom from the passenger side window.
 
So you see, things are much better now than when I was younger.

The USA now has a black President and has a woman running to replace him.

And the Gigafactory is the beginning of a revolution in energy production.
 
Natal Day? Broom a Coon? Where the hell was this? And how long ago?

Please ask your handyman dude for the fix for wasps/yellowjackets. They are driving me nuts here this weekend.


This is a long weekend in much of Canada...mostly referred to as the Civic Holiday Weekend.

When I was a kid, it was called Natal Day to celebrate the hometown's founding.

Natal Day Weekend was also commonly called Coon Christmas in those years...because it was the one weekend of the year when black people moved about the entire city and not just their part of town.

Pickup trucks filled with black kids would descend upon the Natal Day Fairgrounds...for most of us, it was the only time we saw black kids up close in numbers.

At night, some would walk home and experience white teens in their dad's cars playing a game called Broom a Coon, where you'd whack a black kid with a broom from the passenger side window.
 
Not a long holiday in Quebec. Go figure. However, the airports yesterday were booming. Toronto was a cluster fuck and in Montreal, there had to be 300 people waiting in line for a cab. :eek: Just getting out of there was a chore.
Do not fly during vacation weeks and holidays.
 
Please ask your handyman dude for the fix for wasps/yellowjackets. They are driving me nuts here this weekend.

Look under your deck....sometimes they nest there and every time you are hanging out above them, it disturbs them...the aerosol nest blaster spray works well if you can run fast.

Home Hardware has those fake wasp nests you hang up...they work well...wasps are territorial, so they won't hang out if they think there's another colony in the 'hood.


http://www.homehardware.ca/en/rec/i...Pack-Wasp-Deterrent/_/N-ntlknZ2pph/R-I5045100
 
Look under your deck....sometimes they nest there and every time you are hanging out above them, it disturbs them...the aerosol nest blaster spray works well if you can run fast.

Home Hardware has those fake wasp nests you hang up...they work well...wasps are territorial, so they won't hang out if they think there's another colony in the 'hood.


http://www.homehardware.ca/en/rec/i...Pack-Wasp-Deterrent/_/N-ntlknZ2pph/R-I5045100


Or, you can get a brown paper bag and poof it out to resemble a hornet's nest, then hang it near where you think the wasps and yellow jackets are living.
 
The lake is like two different places during the summer heat weeks.

Weekends are busy with families, friends, relatives, boats and jetskis buzzing around...and during the week almost completely vacant.
 
There's something about swimming in a natural body of water. Leave it to humans to sterilize such an earthy experience with chlorine and cement.
 
Hard bottomed glacial style lake; removing the mostly granite boulders reveals a coarse sand.

About 12' deep at the dropoff, not sure how deep it gets, maybe 20.

A hummingbird flew in while typing... Cool.
 
Someday, everyone will have their own threads as a paean to Blurty.
 
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