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Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Tuesday, 10 November 2015
REMEMBERING NOVEMBER 11.2015
Friday, 21 March 2014
FRIDAY 5s: RANDOM TRAVEL 21.3.14
and former classmate's wedding.
The festivities and rehearsal were great first time events, as was the rail journey,
Confederation Bridge over the Atlantic to Anne's Island and home for that year.
And wondering what injury had happened to my son
the first time I saw the red on his socks !
I was gifted a trip to England just following the loss of my father one autumn.
The requisite? Being open. Being willing. To venture. To discover...
* Sincerely, Paula * Friendship Friday * PinIt Friday * Crafty Spices *
Saturday, 30 June 2012
HaPpY 145th Canada Day !! 7/1/2012
Celebrating with Canadians Everywhere!
May the day be Sweet and Lonnng savoured . . . !
Welcome July !
to all our readers today as we begin the 2nd half of our year ~
Here are the promised ~FREE~PC Calendars / Wallpapers for this newest month!
Hoping they add to your day ~ brightening your computing world
and daily life spent in your office or workspace !
Remember to Right click to either save as or set as background / wallpaper
Celebrating with our US Neighbours
May today and July be especially blessed as we anticipate Summer's Sweetest !
Thursday, 28 June 2012
Annual Canadian Book Challenge July 1st!
Welcome today to the Annual Canadian Book Challenge!
Are you a Reader?
Looking for an interesting addition to your yearly reading Challenges?
The Canadian Book Challenge begins each midyear on Canada Day ~
this year we will begin the 6th Annual Challenge !
Sunday, Canada's 145th Birthday, this July 1st
The Canadian Book Challenge is an online reading challenge
in which participants from Canada and around the world
aim to read and review 13 or more Canadian books
{author or location}
in a one year span
~Canada Day to Canada Day~
Reviews must be posted online
{whether blog, goodreads, or retail sites}
Participants share links to their reviews
with other participants via monthly reading linky posts.
More on reviews and other FAQ's here.
Progress toward the goal of 13 books is recorded
and monthly book giveaways are offered.
No expectations or requirements other than having FuN reading!
No expectations or requirements other than having FuN reading!
Last evening I completed my 12 of the 13
I've recorded each on my Reading Challenges Page on the Right sidebar
as well as the button to the Challenge further down the sidebar.
I have every intention of completing my 13th this weekend!
The Canadian Book Challenge was founded by Canadian
John Mutford of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
who says
"I've lived north of 60 for 11 years,
I have 1 wife, 2 kids, and 1.245,607 books to be read."!
"I've lived north of 60 for 11 years,
I have 1 wife, 2 kids, and 1.245,607 books to be read."!
Keep an eye on John's blog for this year's signup
when Canada celebrates its 145th Birthday this weekend
July 1st !
Sunday, 9 October 2011
Friday, 19 August 2011
Friday Five from Rev Gal Blog Pals ~
here's today's Friday Five post
from Jan at Rev Gals Blog Pals
"My [Jan] husband and I just returned (on Wednesday night)
from a long road trip up the middle USA to Canada,
going through various national parks,
and on to the Puget Sound of Washington State.
This brought back memories of family road trips with my children and when I was a child,
so the idea of today's Friday Five arose."
"Tell us about five road trips--
"Tell us about five road trips--
in your childhood, in your family, in your recent past, with friends,
and/or hoped-for-places-to-drive-to.
Don't forget the one that stands out as the BEST or as the worst time."
If you play, leave a comment with a link so we can see where you've been...
If you play, leave a comment with a link so we can see where you've been...
here's my play ~
1 - the first one to pop into my mind is as an early adolescent travelling with my family of four,
returning my stepgrandma
to her home in a neighbouring Canadian province.
During our first nite sharing a motel room we were all dismayed
to have our sleep {and dreams} interrupted at the same time,
but each had a different reason for waking.
my father thought he'd heard a semi engine idling,
my mom thought she'd heard a coffee pot percolating,
and i thought i'd heard a sewing machine running.
in fact,
we'd all heard grandma snoring!
loud enough to wake us all ")
each of our personal takes quite revelatory!
2 - another road trip followed my graduation from high school.
the company i worked for decided to strike,
so i took that as a good sign for new adventures!
packed up a vw buggy and headed west...
resort-ing the next couple nites,
gorgeous Okanagan sapphire lakes, cherry and peach orchards.
fabulous.
it turned into an entire summer spent in Vancouver
with all it's sites and 'sounds'!
Queen Elizabeth Park, Pacific ocean, Kitsilano...
ferrying to Victoria, tea at the Empress Hotel,
i'm having an adventure reminiscing as i write!
3 - regular teenage road trips down to the States
for bargain shopping {SHOES!} and car races...
4 - road tripping with the kids to visit my parents
wintering in AZ.
Grand Canyon, Los Angeles, Universal Studios, Disney...
"moh-hm! {s}he's in my spaaace!"
oh yes. those were the days!
sold us on getting a van!
5 - fave road trip memories are of childhood trips
with my father.
long distance trucking in his semi
hauling new cars from the auto plants
to dealerships across the prairies.
stopping at wayside cafes ordering my fave grilled cheese sandwiches,
Dad's fave smoked salmon at Kakabeka Falls
getting to ride in the brand new cars
{new car smell!}
watching Dad's social connxn of the day - waving at other truckers
[the days before cb radios!]
and picking up gifts to take home... lovely memories~
many thanks Jan for this road trip down memory lane!
any road trips you'd like to journey with us?
feel free to leave your link when you chat ...
Thursday, 24 February 2011
Ann with an 'e'...
what fresh FuN!
when i discovered Renee Ann's
when i discovered Renee Ann's
i am not a fiction reader,
but Renee Ann
offered an open book choice
with review to be published from Feb 25th to 28th
and my fancy was captured!
probably due to the large amount of work scheduled
and recognizing i needed some distraction ~
'lite'!
'lite'!
so here's my contribution to be added to the review mix ~
Lucy Maud Montgomery's
"Anne of Avonlea"
published first in 1909
published first in 1909
reading this was like visiting an old friend!
the warmth and delight of discovering
impetuous red-haired Anne
as a child in "Anne of Green Gables"
impetuous red-haired Anne
as a child in "Anne of Green Gables"
now developed charmingly
through two years of her teen life
as her adventures are enlarged to include
the rural Prince Edward Island community of Avonlea...
" an August afternoon with blue hazes scarfing the harvest slopes, little winds whispering elfishly in the poplars and a dancing slendor of red poppies outflaming against the dark coppice of young firs in a corner of the cherry orchard was fitter for dreams than dead languages."
postponing her 17th birthday from the
vagaries of March in favour of a spring picnic with her friends,
the walk through vales and lanes spanning bridges and brooks
provides picturesque settings for their talk
that soon takes a 'heavenly' turn ~
"Minnie May asked me the other day if we would wear our best dresses
every day in heaven," laughed Diana.
"And didn't you tell her we would?" asked Anne.
"Mercy, no! I told her we wouldn't be thinkng of dresses at all there."
"oh, I think we will ... a little," said Anne earnestly.
"There'll be plenty of time in all eternity for it without neglecting more important things. I believe we'll all wear beautiful dresses...or I suppose raiment would be a more suitable way of speaking.
I shall want to wear pink for a few centuries at first...
it would take me that long to get tired of it,
I feel sure.
I do love pink so and I can never wear it in this world."
Anne's role as local school teacher providing
the rural Prince Edward Island community of Avonlea...
" an August afternoon with blue hazes scarfing the harvest slopes, little winds whispering elfishly in the poplars and a dancing slendor of red poppies outflaming against the dark coppice of young firs in a corner of the cherry orchard was fitter for dreams than dead languages."
postponing her 17th birthday from the
vagaries of March in favour of a spring picnic with her friends,
the walk through vales and lanes spanning bridges and brooks
provides picturesque settings for their talk
that soon takes a 'heavenly' turn ~
"Minnie May asked me the other day if we would wear our best dresses
every day in heaven," laughed Diana.
"And didn't you tell her we would?" asked Anne.
"Mercy, no! I told her we wouldn't be thinkng of dresses at all there."
"oh, I think we will ... a little," said Anne earnestly.
"There'll be plenty of time in all eternity for it without neglecting more important things. I believe we'll all wear beautiful dresses...or I suppose raiment would be a more suitable way of speaking.
I shall want to wear pink for a few centuries at first...
it would take me that long to get tired of it,
I feel sure.
I do love pink so and I can never wear it in this world."
vivid depictions of student and parent personalities,
scrapes of all kinds and disciplinary reactions
had me rolling with laughter!
the unexpected arrival of 6 year old twins
into her life when their mother dies
introduces comedic routine on a daily basis.
"If I'm as good as good can be all day tomorrow
will you let me be just as bad as I like all the next day?" asked Davy.
"If I'm as good as good can be all day tomorrow
will you let me be just as bad as I like all the next day?" asked Davy.
little Davy's propensity for trouble
is matched only by Anne's own.
her wit and creativity
her wit and creativity
in responding to their predicaments
is unmatched!
beautifully descriptive
of rural life of another century
Anne books
offer great reading satisfaction~
especially in light of having lived in Anne's land
of Prince Edward Island
and experiencing first hand
L.M. Montgomery's
accurate depictions of islanders 'thought'
regarding outsiders!
lovely opportunities for numerous
mouthwatering tea and garden parties,
proponents of conflicting theologies
within the same households,
well developed characters
and plentiful humour,
kept me enjoyably occupied
to the final page.
the variety of love stories
included
would satisfy the
most romantically inclined reader amongst us!
"Gilbert wisely said nothing more;
but in his silence he read the history of the next four years
in the light of Anne's remembered blush..."
tissues at hand,
definitely recommended!
a delightful break in my routine,
i sincerely thank you Renee Ann
for offering up this book challenge!
i do hope a reader of this review
will take "Anne of Avonlea" as a selection of their own.
would you let us know your response if you do?
*THANK YOU to you who already have!!*
many thanks for sharing my enjoyment!
Miss Spenser has tea for us today
in the tradition Anne would approve!
feel free to stop in ~
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
: C.S. Lewis
more reading challenges
is unmatched!
beautifully descriptive
of rural life of another century
Anne books
offer great reading satisfaction~
especially in light of having lived in Anne's land
of Prince Edward Island
and experiencing first hand
L.M. Montgomery's
accurate depictions of islanders 'thought'
regarding outsiders!
lovely opportunities for numerous
mouthwatering tea and garden parties,
within the same households,
well developed characters
and plentiful humour,
kept me enjoyably occupied
to the final page.
the variety of love stories
included
would satisfy the
most romantically inclined reader amongst us!
"Gilbert wisely said nothing more;
but in his silence he read the history of the next four years
in the light of Anne's remembered blush..."
tissues at hand,
definitely recommended!
a delightful break in my routine,
i sincerely thank you Renee Ann
for offering up this book challenge!
and many thanks also to Sharon of
who created the GorGeous velvet bookmark
for her One World One Heart GiveAway ~
i can hardly wait to begin using it for my upcoming reading!
will take "Anne of Avonlea" as a selection of their own.
would you let us know your response if you do?
*THANK YOU to you who already have!!*
many thanks for sharing my enjoyment!
Miss Spenser has tea for us today
in the tradition Anne would approve!
feel free to stop in ~
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
: C.S. Lewis
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