It's Almost Canada Day and I Know You Want To Be Canadian

I tried to paste in the video proper but it wouldn't work. Here's a linkie to a former posting.
Enjoy.
 
http://thegoatslunchpail.blogspot.com/2010/10/gratitude-monday-canadian-please-video.html

 Here's my sad attempt at embedding:


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Song & video produced by
Julia Bentley & Andrew Gunadie

Two-Sentence Tuesday -- It's Coming Along

My rewrite of BloodLovers is coming along. It's slow, but I managed to get at it for a while each day. It all adds up.

Here are a recent two sentences:

"He said it was an animal. Ain't no animal I ever heard tell of do that to a man."

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Reading has taken quite a beating lately. I'm not sure why. I love to read. It's seems these day, despite the lengthy daylight and me getting up between 5 a.m. and 5:30 a.m., there isn't enough time. I hope that changes soon.

Yesterday I picked up the guitar after letting it sit idle for much too long. It wasn't keen to be tuned right away and I ended up playing it until it decided that tuned was better.

I don't have much of an ear for music so an instrument has to be way out of sorts for me to notice. Yesterday, I noticed.

Here are two lines from the song Long, Long Ago  by  T. H. Bayly I played once the strings got sorted out properly:

"Tell me the tales that to me were so dear,

Long, long ago, "

If you're curious, or can't place the tune, here's how it should sound.

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Gratitude Monday -- Our Moment With Kirk

It was only a few seconds, but my friend Sylvia and I stood with William Shatner and had our photo taken.

I remember watching Star Trek back in first run. It was my favourite show. Still is. It at no point occurred to me back then that I would ever see in person Kirk and Spock, never mind get pictures.

I did. I have. And my best friend was with me on both occasions. In fact, it was her idea to go to The Nimoy Event in Vulcan last year and to ComicCon in Calgary this year.

Thank you.

Photo-Finish Friday -- Statuesque

Statue in a square in (I believe) Santa Clara, Cuba.
The man behind the statue was our tour guide.

It's Banff National Park's Birthday

Bow Lake along the Icefields Parkway

The first national park in Canada, Banff, was established today in 1887 after the passing of the Rocky Mountains Park Act.
Thank you, Sir John A. Macdonald.
Let's all go hug a mountain.
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Thanks to Messymimi for her listing of important things on this date.

Litha

It's the first day of summer in the northern hemisphere.
Happy Summer Solstice, Litha, Midsummer, the term of your choosing, or simply June 21.

Gratitude Monday -- Seeing William Shatner

The Shat in the Hat at ComicCon.

I saw William Shatner in person at the Calgary Comic Book and Entertainment Expo June 18, and I am grateful.
Saturday was, as my best friend Sylvia put it, "a lineful day." Thousands of people were crowded in at ComicCon, and a great many of them wanted their photo taken with Mr. Shatner, ourselves included.
We spent five hours out of the 10-hour day in line. One stellar half-hour saw us wait in line to get in the line to get our photo taken.
This probably sounds like I am complaining. I am not. We planned our "Shat On Sat." weekend for months. I got to spend time with my best friend, and now we've seen both Spock and Kirk.
This is good.
I am happy.
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In the pic Mr. Shatner is on stage at the Corral after having been 'white-hatted' by Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi. To be 'white-hatted' means he's now an honourary Calgarian.