Realism - more than Patriotism

[michaelmaltby]

April 27. Snow overnight after 24 hours of intensive rain

The disastrous news is that the railbed-road has washed out just above the Falls ... pictures will follow in due course. Wanted to motor down today but Big Red wouldn't co-operate. Water draining nicely from the basement

 

[javlin]

Mike hasn't MN figured out yet it's spring time the wife and I put about 6hrs in the front lawn yesterday(6+6=12hrs) getting ready for summer 78' with 55' in the morning.I have peaches,oranges,blueberries and blackberries all making fruit right now.The blackberries will be edible in a month,peaches/oranges about September and I am eating blueberries every morning off the bush.I have a plum tree that put out the best plums I have ever eaten last year none this year unbeknownst to me a high nitrogen fertilizer which I used will make the tree grow leaves not fruit!!You need to find a big breasted woman and have her show her goods to the sky and make God smile and the Sun melts all that snow

 

[michaelmaltby]

Willy's pictures of the washout
This will be expensive to fix ... and I doubt it can be done before the Annual General Meeting .. the road is still soft with the frost coming out.

 

[michaelmaltby]

May 10 Low 1 High 13 ...... Takin' Care Of Business

 

[javlin]

MM looks like some GW moving in kinda nice don't you think

 

[michaelmaltby]

time to adapt ... can't mitigate the sun.
Our adaptation may have to be to raise the road - 12 - 18 inches - in the region where the water flows onto the road .... costly with gravel or straight pit aggregate fill ... but could we raise it using trees, AKA, corduroy road ..? Topping with fill of course. My grandfather walked such roads in the spring, prior to 1914, to reach his hotel Rostrevor, on Lake Rosseau. And both the Germans and the Soviets mastered such roads for their T-34s and Tigers.
Our cottage association members aren't driving Tigers ....

 

[michaelmaltby]

May 19 weekend ..... sunny with brief tropical rain storms.
The Cottage Association voted unanimously to raise road dues to $225.00 from $125.00 to repair the washout and mitigate the overflow in the future.
Meanwhile back in Toronto, son Leks was on TV:

Growing an edible garden

 

[michaelmaltby]

May 24. Summer Hot, black flies, trilliums in bloom and progress on the washout.

 

[Shinpachi]

Life is not easy.
Please take care, MM.

 

[michaelmaltby]

May 31 .... mosquitoes are vicious ... planted the flower boxes .... great load of limestone

 

[Shinpachi]

Impressive pics, MM.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Rocket chose to stay up so he's back in his summer routine

 

[Shinpachi]

Quick and good job

 

[michaelmaltby]

June 15. Rainy and tormentingly buggy ..

Whatever is happening with the climate and CO2 levels ... the slow growing Hemlock on the bank seems to love it. No grass cut ... I'm in for buying a replacement mower. Hummingbirds .. hummingbirds ... hummingbirds.

 

[michaelmaltby]

June 21 - 22 Mission accomplished ...

Mosquitoes from Hell ... Rocket came to town with me after an eleven-nighter ... Leks and his mother-in-law are up tomorrow to put the dock in.

 

[Shinpachi]

Looks good exercise for the health.....

 

[michaelmaltby]

.... 10 minutes at a time is all I have endurance for ... I had help from Willy's riding mower ....

Dock in the water sent by Leks this AM. Once I can have easy dips the job gets easier ...

 

[michaelmaltby]

June 30 ..... tomorrow is Canada Day

"...hewers of wood and drawers of water ..."

 

[michaelmaltby]

In case anyone asks you who a Canadian is . . .

You probably missed it in the local news, but there was a report that someone in Pakistan had advertised in a newspaper an offer of a reward to anyone who killed a Canadian – any Canadian.

An Australian dentist wrote the following editorial to help define what a Canadian is, so they would know one when they found one.

"A Canadian can be English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. A Canadian can be Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, Arab, Pakistani or Afghan.
A Canadian may also be a Cree, Métis, Mohawk, Blackfoot, Sioux, or one of the many other tribes known as native Canadians. A Canadian's religious beliefs range from Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or none. In fact, there are more Muslims in Canada than in Afghanistan . The key difference is that in Canada they are free to worship as each of them chooses. Whether they have a religion or no religion, each Canadian ultimately answers only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.

A Canadian lives in one of the most prosperous lands in the history of the world. The root of that prosperity can be found in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms which recognize the right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.

A Canadian is generous and Canadians have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return. Canadians welcome the best of everything, the best products, the best books, the best music, the best food, the best services and the best minds.

But they also welcome the least – the oppressed, the outcast and the rejected.

These are the people who built Canada . You can try to kill a Canadian if you must as other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world have tried but in doing so you could just be killing a relative or a neighbour. This is because Canadians are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, can be a Canadian."

 

[michael rauls]

That's some beautiful country where you live.