State of a Fair!
August has 31 days but those sure seem to zip off the calendar page! We've had record-breaking temperatures, including the monthly average being something like 27'C. For us, as in many households, the annual Fall Fair creates a whirl-wind of activity marking the end of that scorching month. Our local fair starts on a Friday. ...
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Legalize My Name
This isn't new or uncommon, but now that Hillary Rodham Clinton's daughter Chelsea got married July 31, there's some speculation about what name she'll choose to go by. Many first-time American brides are consulting a website www.ImaMrs.com to help decide how they'll be ID'd. www.Ask.com gets over one million questions daily. Currently the 'what-should- my married-name-be' ...
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Buzzzzzz!
The old familiar saying, (from Erma Bombeck I believe), that 'insanity is inherited, I get it from my kids' sometimes applies in my household! Most often though, when I think I'm loosing my sanity it's just a feeling of " Blech, what did I just read [hear or see]?! " or "Where are my car keys?!" It can ...
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Where’s My Mummy?
I was going to let this go, but I keep coming back to it!,…. If getting older doesn't scare you a little, this might get you started! Recently in Tokyo, Japan, authorities realized they'd lost track of their oldest inhabitant, who would have been 111. Police searched the man's residence and found his long-since deceased ...
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Hello Muddah! Hello Faddah!
Early-mid June our daughter decided she wanted to go to a 'sleep-away' camp. Many of the characters in her favourite books attend summer camp, some for the entire summer! At 8 1/2 years old, our gal is not usually one to rush head strong into something unless she's really checked it out and thought it over. ...
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MISSING
On Sunday August 1, at approximately 3:15pm a crime was committed on the Teeswater River, (north of the 8th Concession Road). Thrashing wildly in the water, and thus distracting three innocent fishermen in a green canoe, a large pike, approximetly 28 – 30 inches long, stole a two-toned green 'little cleo' lure along with an unspecified amount of fishing ...
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