Blue Jays Baseball Game on Canada Day, July 1, 2014 courtesy photo by my sister
O Canada, I have not forgotten you,
and as I kneel in my canoe, beholding this vision
of a bookcase, I pray that I remain in your vast,
polar, North American memory.
You are the paddle, the snowshoe, the cabin in the pines.
You are Jean de Brébeuf with his martyr’s necklace of hatchet heads.
You are the moose in the clearing and the moosehead on the wall.
You are the rapids, the propeller, the kerosene lamp.
You are the dust that coats the roadside berries.
But not only that.
You are the two boys with pails walking along that road,
and one of them, the taller one minus the straw hat, is me.
Billy Collins, “Canada” from The Art of Drowning. Copyright © 1995 by Billy Collins. All rights are controlled by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Reprinted with the permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press, www.pitt.edu/~press/ (Source: The Art of Drowning (1995) via Poetry Foundation)
H A P P Y C A N A D A D A Y
Photographs and Memories 
Cheers! 😀
Way to celebrate! 🙂
If we can sing, otherwise, it will give us the gong!
The Beer Fridge!
Start singing!
wow that looks like quite the crowd there too 🙂
It does when it comes to sports. I am unsure whether this is in Toronto or Chicago.
mmm! think it’s Toronto, there’s this ROGERS logo on the bottom, my provider which I greatly dislike but it’s the only choice right now ugh
My sister just e-mailed me an it’s in Toronto and they are playing with Milwaukee Brewers.
ah hah! so I was rite 😀
Have a beer! 😛
Cheers! lol! you doing anything today?
At home, doing a whole lot of nothing? Are you out there celebrating?
lol I hate crowds, so I’m at work right now :S
Enjoy.
I shall try! oof it’s warm out
That’s why I’m staying indoors. 😛
Basement then lol
unfortunately not. I’m on the top floor, Facing west. All the blinds are close and the cats are suffering.
Keep the water going eh? nature gave them a fur coat but no way to cool off it seems
I might have to give them a shave. 😛
Think I heard claw marks across the floor from their attempting to escape 😛
Andy, get back to work…. 😆
Hey everyone is having a good time out while I’m indoors, I get my fun too lol 😛
Between you and my sister, kept sending me messages. Thank you for keeping me company. 😛
lol hey I gotta see the cats from their shaved fur! they prolly hatching a great escape plan now 😛
Must bring them to the groomers. They even won’t let me cut their toe nails and I have so many marks on my skin already.
With my calico she was okay with it, probably cause she could tell how nervous I was lol! but man, those nails don’t grow far from the vein inside :S very nerve wracking.
I know. I made a mistake drawing blood one day. It hurts!
Ouch! how long did it take the vet to patch it up? guessing your cats didn’t let you get close after huh :S
Kitty won’t let me forget it. Good thing, vet is not necessary.
Happy Canuck Day, dear seeker! Cher xo
You too, eh! xox seeker.
Yah, no doubt, eh? *grin* Cher xo