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[Apr. 5th, 2012|01:54 pm] |
Stirling is Kraft/CBC Hockeyville for 2012. The attempt to win the prize was started when Jim Wilson, long-time arena manager, died suddenly. The photo is from my set of the Stirling Hockeyville parade that was staged early Saturday afternoon. At that time, the winner had not been announced. Depending on what figure you read, Stirling has a population of between 1,500 and 2,000 people. The consensus seems to be around 1,800. I think half of the village's population was marching in the parade.
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[Feb. 14th, 2012|11:51 am] |
I need some help on the sparrow identification. Tree sparrow is the best i can come up with so far. |
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| Bird Identification |
[Jan. 12th, 2012|08:19 pm] |
This hawk slammed into my kitchen solarium window while in hot pursuit of a Downy Woodpecker. The impact killed the woodpecker but only stunned the hawk which allowed me to take this photo before he gathered his wits and flew away.
I think that it is a Cooper's Hawk but it might be a Sharp-Shinned Hawk. Any ideas? According to the Cornell site, Stirling Ontario is right at the northern limit for both species in winter. |
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| Grammar |
[Nov. 22nd, 2011|01:47 pm] |
Not new but still funny:
On his 70th birthday, a man got a gift certificate from his wife. The certificate paid for a visit to a medicine man living on a nearby reservation who was rumored to have a wonderful cure for erectile dysfunction. After being persuaded, he drove to the reservation, handed his ticket to the medicine man, and wondered what he was in for.
The old man handed a potion to him, and with a grip on his shoulder, warned: ‘This is powerful medicine. You take only a teaspoonful and then say 1-2-3'.
When you do, you will become more manly than you have ever been in your life, and you can perform as long as you want."
The man was encouraged. As he walked away, he turned and asked, "How doI stop the medicine from working?"
"Your partner must say '1-2-3-4,'" he responded, "but when she does, the medicine will not work again until the next full moon."
He was very eager to see if it worked so he went home, showered, shaved, took a spoonful of the medicine, and then invited his wife to join him in the bedroom.
When she came in, he took off his clothes and said, "1-2-3 !"Immediately, he was the manliest of men. His wife was excited and began throwing off her clothes. Then she asked,"What was the 1-2-3 for?"
And that, boys and girls, is why we should never end our sentences with a preposition, because we could end up with a dangling participle . |
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| Christmas Lights |
[Nov. 14th, 2011|09:20 pm] |
I drove to Trenton on Sunday evening. I passed a house on the way all lit up with Christmas lights. While I expect retailers to be venal about this, I expect a little more restraint from people.
I was raised as a Protestant Christian although I no longer consider myself to be a believer in the supernatural. But I still inherited some Christmas tradition from my mother. First Christmas lights, beginning of Advent (Nov. 27). Lights and decorations come down on the Twelfth Day of Christmas (Twelfth Night, Epiphany), I noticed that last year, every house in Stirling doused their Christmas lights on Jan. 6. |
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| Remembrance Day |
[Nov. 11th, 2011|04:40 pm] |
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Individuals pay their respects at the Stirling cenotaph.
My father enisted for all six years of WWII and came back. My mother and my mother-in-law both lost their only brothers. |
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[Nov. 6th, 2011|08:25 pm] |
My brother-in-law treated his wife, Karen, his mother, Karen's and my father and me to lunch at the Marmora Inn this afternoon.
Who would have thought of a five-star restaurant in the heart of Hastings County?. Our waitress was the chef's daughter who talked very knowledgeably about the food and its preparation. After lunch, the chef himself came out to chat with us. It has been said in Toronto that if you want good seafood, visit a Portuguese restaurant.Chef Rui Pereira is certainly the embodiment of that idea. I have had gourmet meals in Prince Edward County but this is the first first-class restaurant that I have encountered in Hastings County. Pricing is a bit steep for this area but still half of what you would pay for a similar meal in Toronto.
http://www.marmorainn.com/index.html
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| Flickr |
[Sep. 26th, 2011|10:45 am] |
I made Flickr Explore for the first time on Sunday with this:
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