Remembrance day

 
The image of the aging veteran or soldier remembering his buddies with a tear rolling down his face sums up this day; the one we call Remembrance day or Veterans day depending where you live…
Always a sad day(and even sadder as RULING  human kind just doesn’t seem to, “get” ,the message about  the futility of [...]

Tons of rain(over for now)

We have so much rain in the past 24 hours, in fact close to 2 and a quarter INCHES(55 millimetres!)
That is like being in a rain forest(which in actuality we almost are, but the Majority of rain tends to be on the west coast of the island, not at the southern end!)
It was dreary and [...]

autumn trip (part five)

The next day we decided to go to the zoo.
This is a MUST for the visitor to San Diego; the zoo is world class and constantly undating and improving its already amazing facility.
We were in SD about 5 years ago so THIS time, had a chance to see the part of the zoo that we [...]

have readers but no commenters…

Ok you lot, I KNOW that there are people reading my blog; I have ways of tracking this(plus wordpress has it’s handy dandy stats counter, etc0
I often post things thinking,”now this is interesting, or maybe others feel this way”; but save for a few loyal visitors I get few comments.
Perhaps it is the summer and [...]

Hey Toronto, want to switch weather???

It continues to be scorching hot here in British Columbia.
It was recorded at noon to be 31 Celsius here( 87.88 Fahrenheit) and is now 32c(89.6 Fahrenheit). The Humidex says that it feels like 38c (100.4 Fahrenheit). It’s a heat wave!
We are dealing with it the best we can; but it’s a bit tough as hardly [...]