Santa Claus Parade 2010 Cayuga

If you had told Cabernet five years ago that she would shivering in a Santa Claus parade in Canada, she might have covered her ears with her paws. Cabernet is a rescued dog from New Orleans' Katrina.

Cayuga Santa Claus Parade 2010 ~

(For larger image dbl. click on photo.) More parade photos on Lorna's Facebook.

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Rebecca is on her way to Friday Light Up Night in Cayuga.

Animal Stories ~

Part chihuahua, part pincher, Uno prefers the classics; however, when pressed he will read Animal Stories.

"It is only with the heart that one can see right;
what is essential is invisible to the eye." *

We pass on to you today the above Daily Quote from
Johnathan Huie. www.dreamthisday.com sent to us by a friend.

* Antoine de Saint Exupery (1900 - 1944) French writer, aviator.

Saint Exupery vanished in a plane over the Mediterranean. For photos of bracelet discovered at the bottom of the sea in 1998 go to Wikepedia; search Antoine de Saint Exupery. Best known for his books The Little Prince and Wind, Sand and Stars.
http://www.wikipedia.org/

Our thoughts and prayers are with Barbara and family, Michael, Ann and Sue in the loss of their husband, father, grandfather and brother, David Harvey Wase. Our sincere condolences to Dave's sister, Mary.

Condolences to the family may be expressed at http://www.cooperfuneralhome.ca/

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity." ~ Guilda Radner, quotation on website Cooper Funeral Home, Jarvis, Ontario.

Photo: November Sunset on Lake Erie, Ontario ~ Lorna

MURRAY & ME ~ A rare look back at the thirties in rural Ontario.

Author and historian Harry B. Barrett relates the historic installation of the controversial new hydro-electric power lines. He tells the story of travelling in a cutter and upsetting on a hill. "I remember our upsetting in the ditch. . . Suddenly I seemed smothered in snow from beneath and by the fur of my Grandfather's coon-skin coat."
The reader learns the origin and tales connected with such places as "Dog's Nest" and Port Dover. The author reflects on earlier days -- his conversations with old neighbours and friends -- to explain the financing and hardship in building the Hamilton-to-Port Dover Plank Road.
One can imagine Harry Barrett sitting around the kitchen table with his childhood friend, Murray Hammond, sharing the stories that eventually became the book, MURRAY & ME.

The book is dedicated to "the hardy pioneers of the Long Point County, many of whom were ancestors to Murray and Me, who toiled to turn the Carolinian Forests into the smiling farmlands and orderly communities that we enjoy today."

* Harry B. Barrett, MURRAY & ME, 1999, Patterson's Creek Press, Morris Printing, Simcoe, Ontario. Photo: Cutter circa early 1900's. Family photo album, Lorna