Had our annual blizzard yesterday.
As usual it caught a whole pile of people napping.
And they paid for it.
Yes, I know a lot of us have go out and do stuff. Sadly.
BUT REALLY!?
Just look out and window and take the day off – if you can.
This stuff can kill you …
or destroy your car … whatever.

Absolute mayhem.

I went out to shovel the sidewalk, but after about half an hour I gave up.
The snow drifts were over a foot deep in places.
I’m 77 now and with a pile of ailments.
So let God take care of it.
In a couple of days it will all melt as we regularly get
Chinooks winds that raise temperatures above zero.
I’m not going to kill myself.

Have a Good Christmas.
And don’t sweat the small stuff.

In my travels I’ve accidentally destroyed two (over) $500 cameras.
The first one, I fell into a creek up at Sheep River Falls.
The second camera was dropped in the sand at Puerto Vallarta.
So I had use my old backup camera when we went in Prince Edward Island. It’s on it’s last legs and did not perform well.
I’m a lousy photographer to begin with, so this didn’t help.
So are the few resulting photos.
But I’ve combined Roses photos with mine to improve the posts.

Travellin’ light:
(Truly, this IS pretty light for us.)

So:

ZOOOOOOM!!!
5 hours later …
Calgary to Prince Edward Island.

Hmmmm … gonna have to get used to all this French stuff.

And some Native stuff too:
“Pjila’si”???
Pjila’si is a Mi’kmaq native word that means “Welcome”
and can also be understood as “come in and sit down”
or “I’ll do my best”.

Well, we’ll sit down and do our best.

Our Steed:

The Volkswagen Taos
When we finally got to the car rental place, we discovered that the smart travelers had raced ahead and rented all the Ferraris and Rolls Royce’s.
That left us with Volkswagen Taos.
But you know what? It was pretty damn good.

We were ready to ramble/rumble.

But first: We head for our Digs:
After car rental we decided to economize and stay in a Mansion:

Whilst Jeeves took our ride ’round back
we decided to check things out:

WOW!

Next Post: Our Digs PEI

Christmas Quiz:

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From the popular Christmas song:
“The Twelve Days of Christmas“,
Quiz Question:
What happened on the
“12th Day of Christmas”?

Can you recall?

WRONG! Scrooge!

BUT don’t feel bad.
Because about 80% of people
cannot answer that question!

And you shouldn’t!

Have a great Christmas!

OH! The answer?

You’ll have to look it up.

O Little Town of Bethlehem / Barbra Streisand

“Above Thy deep and dreamless sleep …
the silent stars go by …”

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We stopped by the Little Church this Summer.
Maybe for the last time.

But I’ve never seen an Altar where I couldn’t
express my Thanks and Reverence.

Reverend Rose … Worthy.

A pilgrim arrives.

Let’s Celebrate!

It’s about Love.
Always has been.
Always will be.

And though I’m not that Graceful,
they provide me a seat anyway.

“Yet in Thy dark street shineth the everlasting light.”

See you there.

From Rose and I
To You!

Feelin’ Higher / Mcguinn, Clark & Hillman / 1979

When I look about in this troubled world,
I can only count my many, many Blessings.

I have food on my table,
A Home,
A Loving Partner,
My Health …
Love.
So many, many gifts,
that I need no presents.
For I have so many already.
And I hope the same for you.
So I send You my honest Blessings
and I pray You will go forward
with some degree of Joy
for now … and always.

Merry Christmas. 

For Quinn

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Quinn asked  me to post some photos from my recent trip to
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

So I will.

Canada is HUGE.
Prince Edward Island is small.

I lived in New Brunswick for 3 years in the late 60’s.
Finished High School there. But was never able to get over to
Prince Edward Island.
And I always regretted that.
So you might say that this on an unofficial goal
on my Bucket List.

So we flew from Calgary to Charlottetown 
Prince Edward Island (PEI).

The first (and only) official goal on my Bucket List
had been to sail on the famous Canadian Schooner:
THE BLUENOSE.

So I did.

Bluenose / Stan Rogers / 1978

Thanks to my partner Rose, I achieved this goal on July 28, 2016.

9 hours on the the Bluenose 2. What a Day!

It was the experience of a lifetime.

2016 … seems like a lifetime ago.

So how does a fishing schooner defeat racing yachts?
I think it was this guy:
Angus Walter / Skipper

OK … I’ll get to some PEI pics in my next post …

The Green Fields of France 2023 / John McDermott

I won’t wait.

In the early 70’s I had a
Soul Travel experience where
I found myself flying about a mile
above the Sahara Desert. As I looked down I
thought to myself: “I better make use of this experience.”
Just then I heard a voice say: “Take me to Karnak”.
The next I knew I could see a Temple Complex
below me.  When I came back from this
experience I realized I had never
heard the word Karnak before.

And I didn’t even know how to spell it.

I do now.

see you tomorrow …

Automobile / John Prine / 1979

My Saturday ride …

My Sunday ride …

Accidental image …

My Weekday ride …

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My real ride …

I have no complaints.

Working Man / Rita MacNeil / 1990

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Rita MacNeil

Rita MacNeil CM ONS (May 28, 1944 – April 16, 2013)
was a Canadian singer and songwriter from the community of
Big Pond on Nova Scotia‘s Cape Breton Island. Her biggest hit, “Flying On Your Own“, was a crossover Top 40 hit in 1987 and was covered by Anne Murray the following year, although she had hits on the country and adult contemporary charts throughout her career. In the United Kingdom, MacNeil’s song “Working Man” was a No. 11 hit in 1990.^[1]

In 1990, she was the bestselling country artist in Canada, outselling even Garth Brooks and Clint Black. She was also the only female singer ever to have three separate albums chart in the same year in Australia.^[2]

Through her career MacNeil received five honorary degrees, released 24 albums, won three Juno Awards, a SOCAN National Achievement Award,^[3] four CCMA awards, eleven ECMA awards, was inducted into the
Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame and was named to the
Order of Nova Scotia and Order of Canada.^[4]

On the eighth anniversary of her death, April 16, 2021, it was announced that Rita MacNeil would be inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame posthumously in May of that same year.^[5]

~ 1970 ~

In looking at photos of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,
I noticed that Paul Newman is wearing his pistol on his right hip.

And shoots Right Handed in the movie.
This piqued my interest because I know there’s a popular and long standing notion that Paul Newman was Left Handed.
This notion comes from a Western that he made early in his career:

Young Paul as ‘The Kid’.
He was 33.

Poster Art seemed to have declined …

… so i fixed this one:

I contend that Paul was actually pretending to be Left Handed
in The Left Handed Gun.
Because that’s what the role called for.
This is called ACTING:

This whole Left Handed notion originated from the famous
Tin Type photograph of Bill the Kid (1880):

Because Tin Type  photo images produce reverse (mirror) images
of the subject and therefore it appeared that The Kid was Left Handed.
This misconception was around for so long that
it became regarded as Fact.
The Kid was not Left Handed.

 
And I’ve got plenty of evidence that Paul Newman
wasn’t Left Handed either:

Possibly the best proof comes from his
Western Classic, Hombre (1967)

That’s definitely Right Handed Paul.

And Below: Paul as a right handed Apache.

And more Paul with the ‘Big Iron’ on his right hip: Below.

Even more evidence:

BWAM!!!

SLAM !!!

Thank You Maam.
That’s the Right Hand of the Law.

But there’s additional proof in
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid itself.

Pretty obvious.

I rest my case …

But there’s one more more weird twist to this trivia:
Robert Redford WAS Left Handed.

YET …
On the Official Poster for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid
they have reversed the image again!!!!

WHY?

You tell me?

Nobody … I guess?

 

 

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