General Chat

I think (infrequently, though), that I have to abandon this double x thread:

"" Don't have to worry about that anymore anyway, now that I have a personal washerman. I like to think of No.1 as the hired help ..."

while I can still squeak up! and do the dishes!

MJH

but, before I go, here, in the Golden Triangle, people don't buy a 2-4 to toast with it...

Let me explain. Returning from a trip out West, in May 1978, we spent a night in what was then a Provincial Park, Ipperwash... of Mike Harris fame, now. We had a young family and a tent. Next site over, at 2a.m., a latecomer arrived. Their tent was stacks of 2-4s, roofed with a tarp. Later in the increasingly loud night, we heard stories of a lady called Dawn... who they began to fight over, and ultimately were ejected for, because of the noise!

Victoria Day. here's to the memories!

Yes, well, the Golden Triangle is full of masses of the Great Unwashed then, isn't it?

In my neighbourhood, said masses amuse themselves this weekend throwing loud firecrackers at other people's houses and around the streets ...

meanwhile, all is quiet on the western edge!


everyone has gone camping , in the rain, as per usual!


but I've never heard the phrase 2-4 before



Janey ..... Victoria Day is designated as "the Monday closest to May 24th". so it may come before or after the actual day.




sylvia

We've had fireworks Friday, Saturday and Sunday night....and more tonight in the neighbourhood....and always just 5 mins after I've got the kids to bed !!!

We have had morons setting off dynamite late into the night for two nights now. Well, it sounded like dynamite, and it sounded like it was in the backyard. That's the problem in a dense urban neighbourhood -- you just can't tell where the things are going off, let alone where they're being thrown from.

No.1 figures he traced them to the source, a crappy multi-unit small building across the street and through the block from us. Same place they were coming from 5 years ago when one hit my house next door, according to my friend living there, and one hit the car in the driveway next door to it. Someone with a good arm can through an empty space between houses across the street to land there.

That time, the cops said, of course, there was nothing they could do, even after talking to the yahoos and essentially establishing that they were the ones doing it ...

I love cops. There was the time that I and a neighbour both reported a very suspicious descent onto our block by five cars that all disgorged several young men of the same ethnic group, who all went around the corner to a house there. Both she and I saw one remove a package from his car, an oblong shape, wrapped in a green garbage bag. When I asked her what it looked like to her, she said "a gun!" My thoughts exactly. So we told the cops when they came.

Well what do you want us to do about it? they asked.

I dunno ... maybe your job ...

I'm very surprised that you didn't tell them EXACTLY what to do Janey - were you having an 'off' day? :D


I can enjoy a firework display but despair at loutish behaviour with the things. However, my main concern (apart from sleeping children!) is the effect they have on animals.


When we used to have dogs, Bonfire night was a long hard trawl. We put music on the radio/stereo/tv etc. just to try and drown out the noise. More often than not, they ended up shivering on our laps.........and that was just the Dobermann :D


Cx

Sometimes, Cynthia, even I am nonplussed. ;)

I love fireworks displays almost as much as I love amusement park rides.

Both belong in their proper places. No firecrackers tossed around my block, and no fast driving and hairpin turns to a pounding beat soundtrack, either.

I'll be working tonight so not going out to see any displays ... besides, we're supposed to be getting the storm that just took out Missouri. At least where I am we don't ever get tornadoes.

careful, Janey!


I certainly hope you don't get tornadoes!





89 dead so far in Joplin, Missouri

no fireworks here Friday, Saturday or Sunday

....... not sure what will happen tonight



Mind you, the yobbos are all busy downtown supporting the Canuckles ..... either on the plaza outside the CBC, watching the big TV, or in one of the many drinking holes around.


we're off the beaten track here for them!





Vancouver will go absolutely wild if they win tomorrow night ...... that's a) the title, and b) into the Stanley Cup final.


I can remember what happened the last time they got this far, in 1994. Street scenes were unbelievable!



sylvia

Janey


did I ever tell you we were in Ottawa when Ottawa was in the Stanley Cup Final??


we stood at our bedroom window in the Westin, watching the game on the big screen TV on a plaza across the street ............... ?? outside City Hall?? There were hundreds of people out there.


The noise was unbelievable, even through hermetically sealed windows!




sylvia

Hmmmm. Canuckland sounds a very dangerous place to be at the moment. Take care all.



Sylvs, do you think you could pop today's date in your diary please? We could do with remembering the day that JC said that sometimes she is nonplussed!!! ;-)

done!