The Victoria Night Life

 

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Victoria, BC was bustling with night life.
We had a wonderful view if her from our Hotel window.
The camera doesn't do it justice.
The parliament building was all lit up and it felt like Christmas.
The city has a wonderful Canadian flavor to it.
British Columbians love their city and what's not to love here.
It's so beautiful every where you go.

 

When we first entered our hotel room I was a bit confused as to what I was seeing here.
Then it dawned on me, that the beautiful Empress Hotel was just across the harbor and'so were the Parliament buildings.
We were seconds away from down town in the business section.
I remembered taking my mother there the last time we came which seems ages ago.
 She had dinner at the Elegant Empress Hotel.
We'd go more often except it costs a lot to cross from the mainland on the ferry boat
and waiting lines to get back could be terrible.
This time coming back, the 5:30  ferry was booked solid so we had to wait from 3:30 to 8:30
to catch the next ferry boat from Nanaimo.
It was another some 90 min plus ride to get across and then the drive home.
I guess you have to expect this but sitting in a parking lot surrounded by cars and trucks as not a way to spend a beautiful day in summer. We couldn't even go to the water front because it was gated off.
In winter it is raining most of the time most unpleasant so then you have to sit in your car to keep warm
covered in blankets.
Discovering this hotel I thought hmm
It must be wonderful to have a room here when they have fireworks.
It's nice to have a hotel room here at any time of the year. lol
What I liked was that it had a bathroom with a shower head you could move around you.
It is very convenient to have this.
The rest of the hotel is modern and beautiful too
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victorian jokes

What is the difference between a tube and a foolish Dutchman?
 One is a hollow cylinder and the other a silly Hollander.

WIFE: "You loved me before we were married!"
HUSBAND: "Well, now it's your turn!"


Marriage is an institution intended to keep women out of mischief and get them into trouble.  

Why is a dog like a tree? Because they both lose their bark once they're dead. 

"See here, wait, I've found a button in my salad." "That's all right, sir, it's part of the dressing." 

Why are circus horses the slowest breed? Because they are taught horses. 

Who is the greatest chicken-killer in Shakespeare?
 Macbeth, because he did murder most foul. 

I'm giving yer me notice, mum." said the newly engaged maid, "'cos I finds yer don't trust me."
"But Jane, you only came two days ago. I gave you the key to the master's desk, my jewel case and the cellar. Surely that was proof that I trusted you."
"No, 'twasn't, mum. None of the keys fitted."

 A left-handed maid servant reversed the order of the knives and forks on the dinner table. Her master, observing the mistake , reproved her. "Ah, true indeed sir," said she, "and now would you be pleased to help me turn the table round?"

 "Bridget, where did you get that dreadful eye?"
"Me brother gave it to me, mum; and what will the neighbours say? Me with an eye like that and no husband."
 

Ah, Susan," said the mistress, meeting a former servant, "I suppose your getting better wages at your new place?"
"No, indeed, ma'am. I'm working for nothing now-I'm married."

xoxoxoxo

What Does It Mean?

When Karl Marx said: " Religion is an opiate of the people" He didn't know what can of worms he opened .lol
Gosh. It makes me feel funny going all the way back to Karl Marx. Haven't heard that name in a long time.

Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values.^{[note 1]} Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to explain the origin of life or the universe. They tend to derive morality, ethics, religious laws or a preferred lifestyle from their ideas about the cosmos and human nature. There are thousands of religions in the world.<sup>[1]

Every where you look, Christianity is being attacked by the liberal element of society.

So I looked up the meaning of religion in WIKI and got the above.

In this way, I am able to broaden religion to include every belief system,
 because wherever we go, people are all under one umbrella where it comes to the word  "spirituality ".

Every athiest , hates religion but is involved in some other thing like the cosmos, or politics. 
Politics and the cosmos, involves religion.

You can't have politics without it being religious or religion without it being political.

Liberals religiously believe in liberalism.

So when you attack one religion you attack all religions, all ways of life, all cultures, all symbols, all traditions, all morality, ethics, all cosmos because all is encompassed under one umbrella.

 So for example, if one says Christians have to have gay and women priests, then all religions have to have gay and women priests. lol

If one says  feet and hands have to be cut off or a person hanged or stoned for adultery and theft then theoretically, every one has to be and do the same.

If one says you are not allowed to kill insects, like cockroaches, then every one in the world should not be allowed to kill insects.

This affects Catholics, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Communists, socialists, atheists, liberals,hinduists,  Jehovah witnesses, mormons, klu klux clan , black panthers, Hells Angels, Human Rightists,  etc....
Every belief system has to abide by the same rules.

 There are 1000 different  religions I understand in this world ,(not including political systems)so all of them have to have the same provisions with respect to gays and women.
Every one of them has to have the same dress code, Every one of them has to have the same  food, processing of food. same laws with respect to marriage life and death and animals, etc...

We have lots of religious beliefs around this planet but only Islam believes it has the right to put everything under its' umbrella.

Now many will object to this umbrella thing because if this happened liberalism, freedom and human rights etc...would  evaporate.
So would everything else that's different.

The whole purpose of having different people and different things is to be free to have free will as well as human rights to freedom .
We are free to believe what we want and to have our religious systems run by things we believe in.
We came to North America to obtain these freedoms. We teach other countries to be civil with respect to people so we could mix and have trade and tourism.

As of yet, Man has not developed a perfect system to live under, that is acceptable to every one.

  Christian Churches in North America cannot be forced to perform gay marriages and to make gay people and women priests if this is not allowed by the Bible. Islam stands by her laws.She will never change the Queran and  neither will the Jews change their Torah.

 So if you don't believe in certain things like gay and women priests or gay marriages, no one can force you to have them in your institution.
If you are forced to change your beliefs,  then the laws in Islam, must change as well as those found with Sikhs , Buddhists Hindus etc....
Which means the annihilation of all belief systems and this is what is going on right now in our fight for human rights, with Islam and other countries, who hurt their people.

It's nothing personal lol

There is only one way to stop religious battles but because people and countries are multicultural, it is hard if not impossible ,  to do.
Social and Power struggles will continue to exist because you can't please every one.  

In the end, even if man is forced under one umbrella or one system of beliefs, whereby God would be out of the picture, for total equality to exist,
spiritualism will continue to live, as each living person consists of a soul as well as a body.
Science, as of yet, has not been able to find the soul inside the brain .
You can kill the brain but not the soul where the spirit lives.

So all we can hope for, is that Christianity, which believes in forgiveness, kindness and love, which in turn opens doors to human rights, freedom and positive good things for mankind,
 to win in the end.

Christianity doesn't force anyone to join and punishes no one for leaving. It even forgives sins other religions won't.
It wants people to understand that to have freedom, also requires one to be mature, truthful, just and to have the ability to understand love. Christianity has learned to evolve and continue learning.

Adam and Eve were free in paradise. They only had one law and this law was not a big law. 
I don't think God cared if they ate the apple. 
What God wanted to know was if they would obey because one had to understand the law to obey.
If one did not understand, then one would eventually destroy paradise
Paradise can only exist, if people living in it, are mature and understand the significance of the law, vital for it to be.

Under the word love, laws would not be required and God would be pleased to see his creation grow to become civilized and intelligent enough, to be considered worthy to sit at his table in paradise.
Paradise is where people have free will and no one to judge or be judged by.

As long as we need to regulate everything in our lives, it means man is no closer to advancing intellectually than he was
2000 years ago, in spite of all technological advances.

Man's inhumanity to man continues. 
Man is at war with himself on this planet and he will always be at war every where he goes, because he does not accept, that only God
is, or has the right to, power.

Power is not for man to have.

We live under Gods' umbrella and this is why God has no face. 
Our laws mean nothing to him if we have to fight , kill, make laws ,
 create borders and stand in judgement of others. 

If we truly understood God, none of what we do today, would be necessary.

So next time someone tells you he does not believe in God, 
you can rest assured that this person is deceiving himself.
Next time a person goes to change something in a religion, know he does not understand God. 
Next time a religion finds it has a right to hurt people, know it doesn't understand or speak for God.

God is love.
To understand love, means there are no laws or rules to live by.
Every person knows deep, inside the spirit, what the right thing to do is.
If he could reach the spirit inside himself,
mans' inhumanity to man would seize to exist because
Love is programmed into our DNA, by God, our creator.
Doors to immortality in paradise will open if and when man finally 
reaches this point of understanding, when the veil can be lifted so he can see
clearly, without mans' laws and systems clouding the real truth and meaning to mans' existence.

We had the Industrial Revolution when man changed the way men worked.
We are going through a technological revolution right now when again
people are losing all their jobs and new ways to live and prosper need to be found.
As we continue to evolve, we will have another revolution and
 maybe this one will have more to do with coming to terms
with mankind and the world we live in.</sup>
It doesn't always have to be a bad thing.

<sup>Maybe one day, we will live with less words but the quality of our lives will become better as we learn
to be closer to our personal spiritualism, than the political dogma of the world.
We will never have a perfect system, until we understand God = Love in the true sense of the word.

And if Love is an opiate.....then let me get drunk of it.
:)
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TEACHER: What is the chemical formula for water?
SARAH: "HIJKLMNO"!
TEACHER: What are you talking about?
SARAH: Yesterday you said its H to O!

^xoxoxoxoxoxo


 

Bankers Diner

 

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We came across this beautiful regal bank building and were
 surprised they turned it into a restaurant.

In front of the building there is a small black board with
LUNCH FEATURES

Angus Beef burgers
Fish and chips
BLT Sandwiches
Deli Style Turkey Sandwiches
Pizza

 

The finishing on the building was lovely

 

And guess what?
The sign above it says it is a Scottish Pub since 2008.
lol
It's on the corner of Fort St and Government St downtown Victoria, BC.

It has 30 different beers on tap
and
 live music Wednesday thru Saturday .
Now that sounds like a party :)
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McQuillan walked into a bar and ordered martini after martini, each time removing the olives and placing them in a jar. When the jar was filled with olives and all the drinks consumed, the Irishman started to leave.

"S'cuse me," said a customer, who was puzzled over what McQuillan had done. "What was that all about?"

"Nothing," said the Irishman, "my wife just sent me out for a jar of olives."
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A drunk staggers into a Catholic Church, enters a confessional booth and sits down but says nothing.

The Priest coughs a few times to get his attention but the drunk continues to sit there.

Finally, the Priest pounds three times on the wall.

The drunk mumbles, "Ain't no use knockin, there's no paper on this side either."
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Six retired Irishmen were playing poker in O'Leary's apartment when Paddy Murphy loses $500 on a single hand, clutches his chest and drops dead at the table. Showing respect for their fallen brother, the other five continue playing standing up.

Michael O'Connor looks around and asks, "Oh, me boys, someone got's to tell Paddy's wife... who will it be?"

They draw straws. Paul Gallagher picks the short one. They tell him to be discreet, be gentle, don't make a bad situation any worse.

"Discreet? I'm the most discreet Irishmen you'll ever meet. Discretion is me middle name. Leave it to me."

Gallagher goes over to Murphy's house and knocks on the door. Mrs. Murphy answers and asks what he wants. Gallagher declares, "Your husband just lost $500 and is afraid to come home."

"Tell him to drop dead!", says Murphy's wife.


"I'll go tell him," says Gallagher.

lol
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Cruisin the City

Victoria,BC  has so much to offer in terms of history.
We see things we haven't seen for years on the walls of old buildings.



An Old Pub hidden away between narrow streets in Victoria , BC
holds secrets as well as history.
At Garricks Head Pub, we found an old cigarette dispenser.

 

The bar has an old style to it.
And you don't often see deer heads anymore in pubs.

as well as games people used to entertain themselves with
to pass time.
The food was delicious as was the ambiance and service.

 

I couldn't help but take a few shots to remember it by.

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In a School science class four worms were placed into four separate jars.

The first worm was put into a jar of alcohol.
The second worm was put into a jar of cigarette smoke.
The third worm was put into a jar of sperm.
The fourth worm was put into a jar of soil.

After one day, these were the results:
The first worm in alcohol --- dead.
The second worm in cigarette smoke --- dead.
The third worm in sperm --- dead.
The fourth worm in soil --- alive.

So the science teacher asked the class --- "What can you learn from this experiment."

Little Johnny quickly raised his hand and said. "As long as you drink, smoke and have sex, you won't have worms."

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Q: What's the difference between the 1960's and the 2000's?

A: In the 2000's, a guy goes into a chemist shop and shouts, "Give me a box of condoms!" ... and then whispers to the shop assistant, "Oh, and slip in a packet of cigarettes, too." 

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A chicken and an egg are lying in bed. The chicken is leaning against the headboard smoking a cigarette, with a satisfied smile on its face.

The egg, looking a bit pissed off, grabs the sheet, rolls over and says, "Well, I guess we finally answered THAT question." 

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xoxoxoox

Entertaining Ad Nauseum

 

We walk this planet meeting people every day.
They seem to be nice and just like you.

They serve you coffee, bring your mail, and work at your place of employment.

They sit at your church or temple.

Your doctor, your lawyer, your MLA all good people doing their thing.

You put your trust into people as you feel they also put their trust in you.

You are all on the same page and yet we all agree that we disagree.

We read the same magazines, look at the same TV programs and listen to the same music.lol

We should be the same and yet we are different.

Life makes us different.

I like to entertain but now, not so much.
 I have come to conclude, it's easier to entertain people in public places where they can choose what they like as opposed to having a sit down meal at home.

I met a lot of nice people in my life, invited them for dinner and went out of my way to spend quite a bit of time and money to make that perfect meal.
You always put more variety as you don't know what people like to eat.
After a long hot day preparing a table, you are ready for your guests lol
One guest I had, came from Korea. Very nice man.
But he did not like me sitting at the table with him.
It was not a womans' place he said. He had to tolerate it because I am not a servant in my husbands house lol Our conversation led to women and family.
He said they prefer to have women children because after a wife is too old or not good anymore, the daughter takes over ( in his bed). My presence destroyed his day and I had to hold myself back from kicking him out of my house to be polite. lol
Another time I invited guests for 5 pm.
It was after 8 and they didn't show up. Finally they did show up after everything was spoiled, stayed five minutes, gobbled what they could and quickly left.

Another time I invited a man who looked at my full table and told me there was nothing to eat.
There was only so much of one thing he could eat in one night he said. The rest was not the kind of ethnic food he likes to eat.
On top of all that he attacked my Englebert Humperdinck. He said what a stupid song Spanish Eyes was.
For one thing, every one knows Spanish people have brown eyes not blue. lol
In shock it took a while to register, so I could explain to him the meaning of the word blue.
Blue did not mean the color blue but the feeling of being blue, sad.
This time I saw a light flicker in the mans' head as he finally put something disturbing to him, to rest.

These are only a few disasters I have had to contend with in my attempts at being a good hostess.
Other examples include people who come with allergies you don't know about.
You may have a wonderful cook book with tons of good recipes but they can't be used because of such surprises. Egg dishes are out, pasta is out, pizza is out. People like to make their own salads with their own dressings.
I came to the conclusion that although I try my best, I am never going to win, as a hostess.

There are people who invite you and buy frozen food at the store and heat it up and ask you how you like it. First of all cooking a meal is different from buying frozen. Do they really expect a truthful answer? lol

It  makes you think what a fool you are standing over a hot stove, worrying about how to make a perfect meal for special guests when they don't consider you special enough to actually make a home cooked meal for you. You always have to be  the better man, more considerate and polite or you are rude ,
It's easier to
just go to the restaurant , keep your  kitchen clean and let the cook worry about what he serves because people never complain to him and eat everything . Everything they say they can't eat at your house, they eat at the restaurant.
Funny.

I think back at all the places I went to. No matter what food I was offered for the first time, I ate it to be polite and I didn't count calories for the same reason.
After all I thought, it's not something I am forced to eat at home is it?
It costs me nothing to please a person who went out of his way to please me.
In China, my husband was offered dog meat and monkey brains. He stopped eating meat when he got home because the smell of the meat reminded him of dogs. lol but people had no food back then in China and it would have been impolite to refuse.

Then I think geez... what must people be thinking of me when I go to their home and sit longer than 5 minutes or sit at the table with the men or don't eat till I burp to be polite. lol One place they made you put in a ticket at the door for a raffle. If they picked your name you got a little present. For us, if you are part of the game it's not polite to refuse the present. For them you have to refuse the present to show humbleness so someone else could get it.
Dinners can become quite complicated.lol

Today even at home, we have problems because the schools interfere, telling kids what they should eat.

Put kids in Soccer, the coaches starve them before a game, so they run faster. If you don't eat it makes you weaker not stronger and a hungry player doesn't think as well as a player with some good energy food.
 One coach said if you lose, you buy your own meals and if you win, I buy them . In the morning it was rice crispies, lunch was subway and at night they went for a buffet. (No snacks or water after lights out. Those were fun times cause kids would sneak out and parents were on hand to give them bags of snacks and water for their rooms. )
 They were playing many games in the summer heat and kept hungry to win.
Well they won but it was no thanks to the coaches but the Mothers who fed their kids behind their backs.

I know in my time kids were all raised strong and healthy on meat potatoes vegetables cabbage porridge kolbasas bread soups. Meals were fun to eat, every one talked and listened to the stories.We had sit down meals at regular times and all curriculum revolved around family routines.
Not so today.

 My Mother mostly steamed food and never used strong spices but we also had a good 2 minute fried steak with onions and garlic waiting for us at lunch time. Salads, with lots of garlic and onions. Cabbage soup and cabbage rolls steamed in a pot with garlic and onions and tomato sauce. Hamburgers, which made todays look rather sad and you have to pay dearly for them.
Just this week I went to a place because they said: " Our hamburgers are made on charcoal ."
 I had this craving and the smell of charcoal made me lick my chops.

But when I tasted it, ok, I could taste the burnt ......whatever it was......but I swear it had no meat in it.
It tasted something like plain uncooked meat but it was thoroughly cooked.
Now, to make matters worse, restaurants today make their servers come to your table to keep asking how you like the food and in between conversation you nod yes, very good, while thinking...... this is awful.
The server trots off into the kitchen to tell the chef he has another happy customer. lol

Eventually I told my husband do they really expect a truthful answer?
Giving a truthful answer would mean getting into a fight and spoiling your outing with your friends.
The best thing is to say nothing and not go back .lol

 In our time families prepared excellent food. Today our kids come home from school and begin to dictate what they are allowed to eat. They cut out so many things, you wonder what's going to keep them healthy?
I hardly think store bought vitamins and body building whey powder from a jar is a replacement for natural food. For strong bones you need good milk not extra skim.
So it makes your shopping harder and more expensive because you need to buy two gallons of milk instead of one and then listen to lip from your kids as to why you bought the other one with fat.

Sorry but the body needs fat. You can't cut out fat altogether and expect to stay healthy.
Ok use stairs,  play tennis, join exercise groups and then go home and eat good wholesome natural food.

After listening,  ad nauseum, to your own kids complain because they learned all about food at school, you watch them walk out the door with their friends and where do they go?
McDonalds or to their friends house and pile up with spicy  and fatty food and later as they grow older ....beer lol

After a full life, I know I will never be a good hostess and so I don't need a real kitchen today .I think if people come to see you, they come to see you and not to eat. So fruit a little wine, cheese cucumber sandwiches  If the kids come home and ask what's to eat, I say I don't know, what do your friends have in their fridge lol

Makes life so much easier when you can suit yourself, just like every one else does.
:)

Signs.

 

Caution Deep Water.
Most of us interpret this as Danger.
But there are some of us who can't read or understand what they are reading.
Some of us see a thrill there to experience.
Some won't believe the sign.
Some feel they are powerful enough and great swimmers to not be bothered with the sign.
Some think not to worry because the life guard will save them.
Others think Woah! Let's spray paint it.
lol
Some are drunk or high and will sit and laugh at the sign.
 Heaven help them when they plunge in and swim out into the depths surrounded  by undercurrents and big fish.
After all, it's just a sign and it never changes.
What are they going to do if we don't obey the sign, eh?

The thing here is
What changes, are the people reading the sign.
When parents call in their children because of the sign,
the children rebel.
Crazy parents, they say
Over the hill.
Stupid.

When one of them dies, the warning is still not understood.
More go in and take risks with their lives.

We, in free countries, see this as the right of the individual to decide for himself what he wants to do.

We can also see this warning in terms of a veil.
The warning is not a lie. It speaks of danger.
But people do not believe or trust in the sign or veil
They do not understand the consequences
and when bad things happen, they don't even cry.
They say it was a choice made and no ones fault.

This is called living in a free country.
You can study the sign, to see under the veil, the hidden meanings
or you can choose to ignore it.
Bungy jumping is the same.
Some take the risk the rope won't break and others think
The rope might break so I won't risk it.
We are free to decide for ourselves.
If I was to think what kind of country I was to live in,
I'd like to live in a country where people are taught at school,
to be able to make good judgement decisions.
Being able to make good judgement decisions is different than being told
what to do.
The nature of man is to test the waters, discover things.
This is how we progress and learn.
When a country or religion stops progress and learning,
it is not a good thing.
It is because Adam and Eve had thoughts and did not obey the law,
that they were sent to a place where they did not have to.

So what happens when we are brought up in a country where people are taught not to make good judgement decisions and just follow orders?
What if one puts ones' toe into the water and people take a stick to your head, beat you good and stick you in jail with no food water or a toilet?
People are no different from animals. You beat a horse, he will obey but he will not love you.
He will run first chance he gets for freedom.

Acts of terror...to control.. does this mean my country was moving forward or stagnating
because no one is allowed to see if the sign is true?
Maybe it's old and the water is not deep?
Maybe someone put it up as a joke.
This is the dilemma we are facing today in world politics.
People come together and they interpret the sign in their own way.

Some know how to think and making an effort to think while others fear or refuse to think.

Some risk everything and others pull in the reins and say hold on there.
Don't jump till you see what's on the other side.
Some know what's on the other side and try to stop another from killing himself because of his foolishness.

Saying no can be seen as a hate crime as much as saying yes can be viewed as a hate crime.
depending on where you come from
There is no bad person here.
It's just that we are not brought up the same way.
Our society is beginning to understand this.
 However,
In order to understand the sign
We have to be on the same page and united.
Otherwise the laws don't work.
Constitutions don't work and
God help
multicultural countries where people run to for asylum and
  bring their own signs from home.,

If a sign is effective but not good for them in their own country ,
why should it be in another established country, with its' own established signs?
What is good for one country doesn't mean its good for another.
Our water does not contain crocodiles as some countries do and so following the sign might not be that important.
The strength of a country, lies in the strength of it's people and the judgement decisions they make.
If the people are weak then doors are open for the united to walk in and take over.
When you have a good place to live, it pays to be diligent and stay on top of things.
It pays to keep the reins pulled in and to tread soft but steady.

Some old cultures already learned this with the signs they bring to our countries
. lol
Have a good one.
:)
xoxoxoxoxo

Metamorphosis of A Baby into a Queen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8nJhG1xE5o&feature=em-share_video_user

This is a wonderful video of our Queen Elizabeth 2nd.

We followed her journey from diapers into Buckingham Palace, where she bloomed into a full fledged Queen.

We will never see anything more noble than this Queen in our lifetime.

 The 2012 Olympics came to an end and we saw our 86 year old darling jump out of a helicopter with James Bond and float down into the Olympic Stadium for the grand finale.

 She quickly raced up the stairs and took her seat and people mocked her for seeming to be bored or maybe just plain tired as she picked her nails.

 Some videos discredited her, saying she did this on purpose, to make way for her Son to be crowned and they remarked that the one eyed mascot, among other things, symbolized the Illuminate taking over.

 Hateful, spiteful rumors, to destroy her lifes' work.
The Queen has been a remarkable model for people to follow and she always tried to do good by her people and the world.

 Her son, Charles, is a different story but could we have expected a different outcome?
He has his own story but unfortunately people judge and his reign will result in nothing more than being seen as a snotty, clown  monarch, who due to his bad behavior, managed to kill the mother of his children, when she was thrown out of the family, who she did well by, to deal with life on her own.

 Charles should really do the classy thing and step aside in favor of his oldest son William, who the people love, as they do his grandmother and who will continue to guarantee them all a salary.

William and Katherine will not only be King and Queen but

King and Queen of

peoples hearts.
:)

xoxoxoxoxoxo

In a Tavern

Mary Hopkins brought tears even to my parents eyes with this song.

Young people who's Dreams were shattered by war and life behind bars because of it,
kept hungry, beaten,
only to be freed and finally given a chance to make their dreams come true.

Some dug in and made it happen, Some spent it in bars wallowing in sorrow.
Some were too far gone to be brought back from the horrors.
Some spent it in both bars and jobs waiting for miracles.
Some sat creating, in thought or writing.
Some as gypsies wandering, searching for something... perhaps answers...purpose...

Age catches up to every one but dreams never fade.
Whether you are young or old, you have desires,
Dreams... timeless in nature and  always alive inside ones' soul.

In the end, every one agrees they lived the life they chose and so
 they never lost, in the journey of life, as they found...
life goes full circle and in it, personal choices were made.
The answers and purpose always lie at the foot of our toes. lol
The journey is to find out how to lift the veil enough to see and understand what we are seeing.
 .
As long as you have life and breath, miracles can and do  happen.
Dreams can and do come true.
Every one has a guardian angel to watch over them and
He guides you in your lifes' journey no matter which road you take.

Some people never see wars or taste hunger or jail but are shattered
by personal experiences. They must learn to resolve their issues.
This is what they were sent here to do. To learn and experience truth.
This especially applies to people who are bullied.
Why one short/fat person and not another?
Why one person of a certain race and not another of the same race?
hmmm It's not hard to see that it is not race or color but something else.
We are here to learn you can't hide behind laws, to continue doing the wrong things you are doing,
 to make people dislike you.

 One never surrenders looking for anwsers or purpose,
until God gently takes one by the hand and delivers one unto himself
to a better world, a better life and a better journey along with all that you have learned.

For the soul, there is no such thing as failure because every one
was sent to this world to gather such experiences.
From the day you are born, the journey from which you are to learn
is laid out before you.

xoxoxoxox

Blessed LOVE

This song, How I love You, is about life and true love.
One body, one soul, one heart.
Eternal, Inseparable,
 in this life and in the next.
Look into the eyes of the audience and everyone can be seen to
relate to the words uttered from the mouth of this beautiful man.

Do our children know love as powerful as this?
Will they ever know it?
Do we as parents know it?
Can we show them, teach them, what it means to love?

When I look at old people, who are still in love, after living
through all the pain suffering and injustices life threw at them, I think, yes.
They are ready for the next level as they climb up the stairs of immortality.
The blessing is in the innocence and light seen in their eyes
They have not been beaten and as a result,
obtained knowledge, many have yet to even begin to understand.

Love is not "just a word"
As intimacy is not "just sex".
It separates us, from those who have and know nothing,
 from those who have experienced and
believe in something so powerful and strong,
that nothing can tear the bond between them.

It separates a house from a home and
Life from living.
It is indeed a blessed love and a humbling experience.
:)
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A community orchestra was plagued by attendance problems. Several musicians were absent at each rehearsal. As a matter of fact, every player in the orchestra had missed several rehearsals, except for one very faithful oboe player. Finally, as the dress rehearsal drew to a close, the conductor took a moment to thank the oboist for her faithful attendance. She, of course, humbly responded "It's the least I could do, since I won't be at the performance."

lol

xoxoxoxoxo

To Sir With Love

Growing up in the 60's were beautiful days full of romantic notions.
So much was going on.To see these videos reminds me of the mini skirts and the
bell bottoms we used to wear and the long flower skirts.
Those days seem so far away today
The Movie To Sir With Love touched me a lot in those days.
I loved Sidney Poitier, how he commanded respect as well as honor
and taught his kids right from wrong, with dignity.
In Canada, where I grew up we didn't see racism.
We kids grew up all mixed together and I still think this is the best way to grow up.
People living mixed instead of separated communities, is the best way
to develop a united society.

We grew up believing in these kind of values which promoted
love, kindness, forgiveness and pacifism.It didn't stop us from fighting
and then making friends again lol
That's just a part of life growing up.

 Of course Engelbert Humperdink and Tom Jones
made hot summers extra special, with their versions of love and passion.
We'd sit listening to their records for hours, dreaming about our futures.




They were North American heart throbs
Now, as old gals, these same songs still entertain our hearts and minds
These songs will never die.
This moment in time will be relived in future generations
just as the old clothes and shoes seem to be re invented every so often.
lol

xoxoxoxoxox

Oh End of Summer and Young Love

I really like this song for summer love.

When I was a kid I'd go swimming in the park pool every afternoon.
 The weather would be hot and the songs back then were Pretty Woman
and another song with lyrics:
She's the cutest little girl that you ever did see,
she's the cutest little girl and I know she's for me
She's the cutest little girl and she's gonna be mine
tada da, ta da da  , ta da da
I used to sing both making my way to the pool
But I don't remember who sang this second song.????


Anyway Pretty woman was good.
I felt young and pretty and sunny back then.
I was a great swimmer with a full life to look forward to ,
Those were
wonderful days to remember.
xoxoxoxoxoxo

Canada - What a Gas!

I took so many pictures of these geese. I was obsessed with them. lol
There were so many of them but I couldn't get the whole group because they
would separate or chase each other away a few feet and the camera wouldn't
be able to capture it all. But they were fascinating to watch.
A movie camera would have really shown something interesting here.
The beach ball would roll up to them in the water and they were ok with it.
The people didn't mind them being around and the little children stood and talked to them and they stood beside them and cleaned their feathers feeling at home.
They were so friendly albeit a bit disappointed we had nothing for them.
Never mind.
My dog paid me back yesterday.
I went to get dog food and he got into the garbage and he also ate the defrosting mince meat on my counter.
Lately he doesn't like dog food and keeps his eye open for people food.
This dog I never feed people food except for buns because his stomach
doesn't tolerate people food.
But he's always been a sly one this Beau. lol
So Instead of making the good burgers I make, I decided to Crock it.
This morning my husband ate the best tasting soup/stew in the world.
Nothing like Croc Potting it.
---------------------------------------------------

There was a bit of confusion at the store this morning. When I was ready to pay for my groceries, the cashier said, "Strip down, facing me."

Making a mental note to complain to my Prime Minister about Homeland Security running amok, I did just as she had instructed.

When the hysterical shrieking and alarms finally subsided, I found out that she was referring to my credit card. I have been asked to shop elsewhere in the future.

They need to make their instructions to us seniors a little clearer!  

lol

xoxoxoxo

     

The Geese Play Ball

 

The geese even pulled me into the water lol
I played volley ball with my son
Swam
And kept cool on an other wise very hot day.

 

People and kids jumped off of wharves parasailed, water skiid, tubed,
and BBQ picnics were every where.

 

This handsome goose walked around quite proud and was not to be pushed around by the older geese.

 

The view surrounded by mountains was as usual, wonderful
We could see campers hiding under the trees.
Events to take place include:
August 9th Blackthorne (Celtic Music with Highland Dancers)
August 16th Evans Palmer (Mixed Music)
August 24th Norine Braun (Original Music)
August 30th Carole Adams (Original Music)




xoxoxo

Trials in Paradise.

This is such a beautiful sad song.
Had to put it into my blog.

Wandering through the country side, one can't help but feel the freedom between
the leaves , grass and water.
 One can't help but feel the power of the sun upon ones' bones.
You reach out to embrace it into yourself and make it a part of you.
You see people all around feeling the same things.
Some stand in the water smoking pot quietly.
Pot, a plant natural to the planet, to be used for good or evil.
You walk away.
You see children, in new bathing suits, equipped with floating devices,
laughing and screaming to get more of the water and less of the stones underneath.
They want their Mommies and Daddies to be there with them,
 as they explore this new world they were born into.

To a child, there are no limits. Nothing too deep. Nothing too hot. Nothing too far away.
They reach the pretty flowers and pick them to smell, taste, examine and pull the petals off one by one.
Everything is there to touch, feel, taste and learn to walk over.
There are no borders or prices to be paid.
The life of a child, angers over a parent saying: No!
 Trying to keep it safe is not logical, to a mind
born to be free and safe in paradise.
A parent is seen to relent after the child makes a big to do, saying:
 NO! I am doing it myself!
Oh wilful child, that will not relent until it burns a finger, or gets cut by a blade of grass, or falls down
on a rock to scrape a knee.
You smile, envying the simple, restricted freedom children have, only to grow up into a world so complex
and unfree in freedoms' name.

We take this planet, cut it up into pieces and borders. We build things it doesn't want. We destroy it
through pollution, politics, religion, based on a sense of self and power we believe belongs to us because we worked for it, disregarding what the planet wants and what the planet worked to achieve in itself.
People fight for different reasons or maybe the same reasons, never once thinking that when the planet rebels, it is also because it wants the same things.
Freedom.
Only the planet has the right of say, to what it feeds and gives life to.
Only the planet decides who lives and who dies and only the planet can humble life walking
on its' surface or in its' depths.

The planet is not governed by money, fame or power and it lives. It survives.
It is........ and it knows it is and it knows one day it shall not be as is but as something other, somewhere other, where it can recollect and begin again.

Man is a creature walking this earth giving himself too much credit.
We have man fighting man under "good cause" pretenses but no fight is, a good cause.

The planet was born free.
The creatures it gives life to, were born free.
Flowers, trees, oceans........all free.
Animals are born free. They grow free, live free and they die free.
They read no books to know who they are born to be.

Only man puts nooses around his neck under the pretext of freedom and all this does is cause enslavement.
 It allows one to be hurt by other men who feel they have the rule of laws to place over another.
You build a house they take it away. You raise a cow they steal it. You plant a garden and they come and collect the food.
They use Laws and rules which are nothing short of being called instruments to say theft is ok. To take another mans self worth is ok. They put it under terms such as Taxes, real estate, industry, government,religion.
Rules and laws, forcing man to accept them, because we are taught to read and write and this makes us superior somehow.
 They make us believe we are better creatures if we allow ourselves to become enslaved freely.
We are hateful evil creatures if we rebel and say NO! Enough is enough!
You can't steal my house, my job, my life, my freedom because you made a law that says you can.

To know how to live free, is to know how to die free as well.

One has only to go out into the woods and embrace the life found there to understand,
why,
 in the beginning, in a time of innocence, in a time of no laws save one,
it was called
paradise.:)

xoxoxoxoxox

The Harrison Beach

 

This body of water is the lagoon so it is much warmer than the glacier lake
on the other side. You can see snow tipped mountains behind the buildings.
 

Surrounded by mountain ranges with snowy peaks from all sides.
By visiting places like Harrison Hot Springs we learn a bit of history like the significance of the the mountain
behind it, The Cheam Mountain and its' Pilalt people, otherwise known as the goat people.
They continue to fight against logging and continuous projects to build tourist resorts and golf courses to save the
mountain goat territories. They used mountain goat fur, found on branches, to weave blankets. These blankets were highly valued in Indian ceremonies and the women who made them held high status and power in the tribe.
The Cheam Indian Band is represented by the Sto:lo Nation, Sto:lo meaning River.
In 1858 gold was discovered on the Fraser and miners over ran the area killing the local Indians and blasting mines which destroyed the salmon runs. Mercury poisoning caused many Indian people, who depended on fishing to survive, to get sick.
We read about such stories but not in much detail, only from the government point of view.
Then looking at all this beauty, one wonders, what is the difference if the Indians destroy their land or if BC or Canada does it? The end result is the same.
Territory is cut up and destroyed, fish disappear and someone gets rich as a result.
In the end it is not about saving land and the planet but who ends up with the money.
So.......who fights to preserve this land of God, land of the bear and mountain goat, deer and weasel?

 

This is the glacier lake side. It is very big and very deep.
You don't want to get into trouble out there.

 

Closer view of the Snow on the other side of the glacier in 96 degree C weather
If you never saw this you'd never believe the mountains to be so high so as to be still frozen up there.
 It also breaks your heart to think that a forest fire, could destroy all this beauty. Going down country
roads between all these tall trees, one could see how there could be no escape from fire, should one start here.

 

Something for the kids to play on. The water is colder here.
This is also where they had boats and jet ski boats for rent.
But they were too expensive to think about.
You have a road running along side the lake.
Young people follow it to find cliffs to jump off of into the water below.
Also some like to go between the trees and set up tents where it is a lot more private.
You have the occasional bear as can be imagined. lol
BBQ'd food smells are prevalent out here and people come in droves to relax
and enjoy exactly what we came out here for.

One day like this, feels like a week's holiday.
The locals make you feel very welcome .
It might be a place you never came to before but it feels like home.
:)
xoxoxoxox

Let's Go To The Beach!!

 

I love my husband when he makes on the spur decisions.
Like on Friday. He suddenly got up and said:
LET"S GO TO THE BEACH!!
Wife! Go find us a hotel!
So trusty wife sat down to look for a hotel which was next to impossible
considering the late date and the fact people book way in advance to go on holidays. lol
I looked and looked .....and looked.
No luck.
Then I found one Best Western Rainbow Hotel in Chilliwack on Industrial Road.
They said they had a room.

 

OK it wasn't at the beach but it was just a few miles away.

So we threw our bags into the car. I am usually all set up for such travels but of course
things never work out the way you want them to cause the guys took everything out of my car and didn't want the job of putting things back.
Luckily my husband took one chair but I had the half tent for the beach, chairs, umbrellas.BBQ
Nope. Everything left at home.If I don;t pack it, it doesn't get packed and then they need to share your stuff lol
The first thing we did was look for our hotel.
We found it in this very industrial place, surrounded by trucking and gaz companies.
Needless to say we were disappointed. We said:  Man, this is a truck stop, not a vacation resort.
In any event they didn't take our registration till 3 and it was only 10 am so we said we'll come back.

 

Such a pleasant view

 

We drove out to Harrison Hot Springs.
It had this huge glacier lake, very deep and very dangerous.
Lots of tourists, shops, restaurants but still a small town kind of appeal to it.
People have a choice to swim in the lake or man made lagoon which is warmer.
We stopped to eat at the first place we could find to park because now parking was an issue.
The town was packed.

 

We stopped at this little place and ordered burgers and fries.
I have to say I have not tasted such a good burger, in a long time.
It was actually grilled on charcoal.
Of course prices were sky high to buy them at peak season.
While eating, my husband was calling the local hotels to find if they had any cancellations.
Only one place had one bed, no air con, for 289.00 It wasn't even a nice place and we needed two beds.
So we said no, for that price it should have two beds and air con. lol
Then we looked for a place to park by the beach but no luck.
We found parking in a hotel parking lot which cost 10 dollars for three hours.
They advertised that you could rent a ski doo for 90 dollars for an hour.
So I told my son to try to rent one to have some fun.
Well they don't tell you all the extra charges on top of the 90 dollar charge.
It wasn't worth the trouble. We rent cars cheaper than that.
It came almost to the same price as buying your own Ski doo. lol

There was a mineral pool but they also charged about 90 dollars for half an hour.
So we went to the beach. I put my chair into the water and enjoyed a good cool soak.
It was very refreshing considering the heat.
When we were driving, the sun already burnt my arms from the windows, so feeling crispy,
 I tried to put on lots of sunscreen.
The view was spectacular. We were surrounded by snowy and lush green mountain views.
You feast your eyes on all this beauty and say to yourself, God is Wonderful !
This is heaven!
Around 5 we decided to go back to our Best Western Rainbow Hotel
Well, did we get a surprise of a lifetime.
We had a great room that opened out into an atrium full of lush tropical plants with a sort of Japanese garden look to it.

 

It had the cleanest pool and hot tub and a small wall separated this from the eating area which was equally so pleasing to the eye. We all jumped into the pool again and the hot tub.
It was super GREAT!!
Then we decided to go eat at a restaurant and stopped at Earls.
The guys had this giant burger which came topped with huge onions rings.
The presentation was unbelievable.The chicken wings were so delicious!
I wish I ordered it but I ordered a Caesar Salad with clam chowder which was exceptionally good as well.
I could actually taste the fresh seafood in it.
By the time we got back to the hotel I was pooped.
I don't think I had such a nice sleep in a long time.
The beds were so comfortable. The room had wonderful aircon. The TV had all the channels you could want.The guys even slipped out to check out the local pub next door with live entertainment.
It was heaven.
The next morning we woke up and rushed for breakfast.It was already getting hot!
 They had a huge buffet brunch set up with even
a fountain of melted chocolate to dip strawberries in. You didn't have to ask for coffee refills .
The staff was soo friendly and obliging and gave you advice as to where to go to see what. If you had animals, this beach had off leash. If you had this this place was good.
We left that hotel extremely happy.
Sometimes it pays to make on the spur decisions.lol
You find places you would otherwise never go to.
To top it off, we saw the same people we saw at Harrison Hot Spring, staying at the same hotel.
They were probably people like us.
Last minute vagabonds who got a fabulous last minute idea .
LET"S GO TO THE BEACH!!

:)
xoxoxoxoxox

Playing In The Sand

 

EEEK!!!
GEESE! GEESE!! EVERY WHERE HONKING GEESE!!
We had such a treat this week end at Cultus Lake, in Chilliwack, BC
Entrance Bay had so many geese, which sat beside you pruning their feathers and looking into your bags to see what goodies you may have for them.
I have never seen such friendly geese.
It's as though they were your very own because they had no fear at all.
What a thrill to sit on your chair and have them all around you sitting enjoying their lives,
looking for pebbles and other things in the grass.
The weather hit 96 degrees today. It was a beautiful day.
The dogs were happy we came home and we got such a greeting and now it's time for bed.
Got lots to tell tomorrow. :)
xoxoxoxo

In Dem Der Hills, Everything Lives

 

I dem der hills you'll find more than loggers and Paul Bunyans,
 with powerful shoulders,
such as those seen doing the shot puts at the Olympics.
Many birds perform feats man will never be able to do.

Like the Mouse birds from Africa, who can position their claw toes
in many ways to hold onto things.
Three claw toes up front and one in the back
All toes up front or two  in front and two in back.
We can't do that although shot putters might benefit from it if they could.

Canaries were used in mines to detect carbon monoxide.
If they died , it was time to get out.
Poor little guys.

My favorite little bird is the sparrow, otherwise known as moineau domestique  in French,
 haussperling in German,or
passera europea in Italian.
 200 years ago, we did not have sparrows in Canada and they were imported to eat insects but
they ate crops and laid eggs all year round.

Now this little bird made a big wave in China
when Mao Tse Tung proclaimed that all sparrows
 should be killed because they eat the grain.
So people would try to kill them and you'd see mounds of dead sparrows everywhere.
People would take pictures with them for posterity.
That year they had a nice crop of wheat.
The next year however,
Insects ate all the wheat crop and this resulted in famine.
We have the same problem with sparrows but found out they couldn't be got rid of.
We can't kill every insect without killing ourselves.
Somehow, we must find a way to live together.
or who would be left to take pictures? lol
We all love eggs, as they represent the beginning and
 we know the smallest egg to be a Hummingbird egg.
The largest we believe to be the Ostrich egg but there once was
another egg much bigger, called an Elephant egg,
 laid by the Elephant bird in Madagascar, which is extinct now.
This bird was about 3 meters tall and probably would outplay our best basketball player.
Its' egg was 75 times bigger than an Ostrich egg and could feed 50 people.
How large is an Ostrich egg? 5-6 inches in diameter and 6-7 inches in length.

The Canada Goose is a tricky one.
We chase geese around here because they poop, so Guess what?
They smelled the coffee and 500,000 years ago, some of them said
 Phoeey! Who needs these new immigrants and migrated to Hawaii.
and they begot another name Ne Ne.
Probably that's what the Hawaiians told them when they saw them poop.
Ne! Ne! lol

In dem der hills we don't know what lives, hides or eats.
We don't know if a prehistoric 10 foot long , 4 eyed, scorpion spider
 will come out of there to battle Dwayne Johnson
or a dragon fly, with a 3 foot wing span,
heralding Arnold Schwartzenegger, with a bazooka,
 battling our tennis rackets.
We hit dragon flies to stop bull head attacks and they feel like tennis balls against
a swooping tennis racket.

In dem der hills it's always a fight for survival .
Insects against insects
Man against man
Man against beast
 Man beast and insect against disease.

We try to protect wild life and wild life kills and still tries to protect us.
Who will win?
Who will lose?
The answer lies in dem der hills.
In dem der hills,
where everything lives.

In a cemetery in England :

Remember man, as you walk by,

As you are now, so once was I.

As I am now, so shall you be,

Remember this and follow me.

To which someone replied by writing on the tombstone:

To follow you I'll not consent,

Until I know which way you went.

lol
 xoxoxoxox

HEE HEE HEE

 

Today is a slow day.
Nothing to do but hang around
and
Watch the traffic going by.
I got Chili from Costco and it is soo good
Smells like home made.
I made some butter chicken and rice for my son.
I also got some grapefruit cups from Costco.
They are soo good and I am in the mood for grapefruit.
Was a time we looked for it and it was not to be found anywhere.
Costco was not very crowded so we enjoyed shopping there.
I had this craving for a Polish dog.
So my son and I ordered 2 dogs one fry and two cokes with refills
It came to 5 dollars.
Even McDonalds doesn't sell for that price anymore but they raised the
membership fees to 55 dollars.
I remember when they were 35 and even then couldn't figure out why it was so expensive to join.
The workers who work there, don't remember the fees being 35 dollars.
They looked it up and said : That was 6 years ago.
They said it as if this was a millenium ago and like that made a difference. lol

My son has a heat rash on his body from Soccer.
Apparently it's because the sweat doesn't come out.
I read he needs benadryl, no hot showers, and to use cornstarch powder.
His  body needs to be kept on ice.lol
I think he should not be eating spices either but he loves spicy food.
They say not to put any cremes, which will clog the pores.

I wiped him down with alcohol and then put the cornstarch baby powder.
It smells so good I put some on me too. lol
He woke up so now I have to do the drill again.
The doctor gave him pills twice for this condition but
they don't seem to help and come back.

Like the Moose on top, I feel like doing some mischief to enlighten my day.
What to do....
What to do.....
Floors, dishes, fry fish for supper, yard work.....
Doesn't sound enlightening so far. lol

I got the dogs pig ears to chew on.
The little dog collected them all and put them in a pile.
She sits watching her pile of pig ears like a hawk.
I tried giving Beau another one and she chased him away.
He doesn't even want to smell them.
He knows they are not for him because of this girl but she isn't chewing them either.
He is 10 times her size with huge paws and yet he doesn't want to bother with her.
HMMM
It's a MAD MAD MAD World.

Have a good one
xoxoxoxoxo

Flip Flop and Fly

Talk about shaggin .
This looks like a lot of fun :)

xoxoxox

Global Warming or Global Shifting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oGqPc6poS4&feature=related



This video with Charlton Heston for tells of another age when man apparently was very advanced
and then suddenly the Earths temperature changed so quickly so as to destroy all evidence of this intelligence as well as man's existence.
The City of the Lost Atlantis maybe be under miles of snow in the Ant arctic.
Man lived along side with dinosaurs.
Man never thinks that maybe all he knows can be destroyed in moments, thus rendering him
with no survival skills and to have to begin again from scratch.
We know we rely on technology today a lot more than we should.

Einstein agreed with some of the proof discoveries, of a planetary shift , because polar ice caps have become so heavy they force the planet to shift. Maybe our planet is shifting right now and this is why we have so much melting in some areas and winters in tropical areas like we find happening in areas like Florida.
The discovery of frozen wooly mammoths in Siberia with fresh flowers in their stomachs, signifies something
unthinkable. These animals froze very quickly while chewing on flowers which require warmth to grow.
Furthermore deep caves were found where 20,000 people and animals were housed in underground cities.
No one knows how these cities could have been constructed without knowledge as to how to do this so far underground.

Interesting how our scientists and archeologists are kept silent and told not to disclose their findings because it contradicts what beliefs people are raised with, Like Darwin and the search for the missing link between man and beast.
Very interesting video.

xoxoxoxo