I decided to have a look at this today, because at 10:58 a.m. Eastern Standard Time ( 07:58 Pacific) seventy-nine years ago today, I first arrived on this warlike and disgustingly backward little planet in a primitively equipped little hospital in a small town in northern Ontario, where they get nine months of winter, two months of bad skiing, and one month's summer.
It was snowing lightly at the time, and the wind was blowing out of the north at about 15 miles per hour, and I was the talk of the hospital that morning for disturbing the peace and quiet of the two-minutes silence at 11:00 a.m. on that Armistice Day, 1932. I've been a shit-disturber ever since, and it's a job I do quite naturally and rather well if I do say so myself. It's my way of getting back at the world for handing me a birthday on a day such as this, with all its doom and gloom and military salutes and horseshit and gunpowder and nasty weather and boring flowers. In my next life, I'm going to try a lot harder to arrive in the middle of July or August when it's a lot more civilized in most populated places, and even some which aren't.
Happy Birthday Ray, Don't remember how I found your blog (think it was on a seniors blog site) but have enjoyed checking in for the pix on a regular basis. Especially neat to see what it's like up there in Canada. Pat in South Carolina
ReplyDeleteGeez Ray you forgot to mention the hundreds of thousands of our Canadian Military who died trying to save your screaming little hide in 2 world wars. Do they not count for something? Cheers.PeterL
ReplyDelete@ Pat in South Carolina -
ReplyDeleteThank You, Pat - I'm glad you're enjoying the pictures and other nonsense on here. You should also check out Uncle Ron's blog at:->
http://rgcs-blog.blogspot.com/
He might even be a neighbor of yours!
@ PeterLBlog -
ReplyDeleteWar means you failed 'Conflict Resolution 101' or your name is 'Dubya' and you couldn't spell it.
Just try to imagine all the world's resources that have been completely wasted while we've been busy killing each other. The famous Will Rogers put it very well when he said "You can't say civilizations don't advance; In every war, they kill you in a new way."
And there's been a war going on somewhere continuously ever since
three days after Adam and Eve got the boot from The Garden. And you can't get to Heaven by raising Hell
no matter what you were told by some smooth talker who didn't plan on getting shot at himself. Trust me - would I lie to you?
Happy Birthday, you Rebel you, Ray! I hope that you had a nice day. Wish I could have been up there to bake you a birthday cake! :-D
ReplyDeleteThe weather up there was quite interesting, today, as well; kind of like you! :-D
I'll tell you what about having a birthday, in August: I swear the night after my birthday, the cool night air sets in! And...as a kid, everyone was on vacation, so...I never had birthday parties; and...well...more of same seems to happen, as an adult, as well! :-( BUT...I do happen to love to have the nice, warm summer day to celebrate my birthday. :-D
It is a shame that people just can't sit down and talk things out, rather than blow each other up like someone with nothing but marbles in their head! :-(
That Peace will Return, someday, again, though, Ray; I'm sure hoping so, anyway! :-D
Hugs to you from TC!
@ TC[Girl] -
ReplyDeleteThank you, Darling! Your heart's obviously one of your best features,
and in the right place.
Birthdays always have had a rather melancholy feeling for me, and not just because mine falls on Remembrance or Veterans' Day, but also because it's a reminder that another year is history, never to return (in case we wanted it to!) and that we're another year older and less visible to the 'movers and shakers' out there in the spotlights. In case that matters a damn either.
Some wit once said that there's two things we all have to do by ourselves, and that's be born and die. Neither of which are very original. It's what's in between that gets us all into trouble. And speaking of 'trouble', Will Rogers said, "It's not the things we don't know that get us into trouble; It's the things we do know that ain't so!"
Enjoy your day, and a warm hug to you.
Hey Ray...
ReplyDeleteI'd sing "Happy Birthday" to you in my deep falsetto voice but I don't want to spoil your day...(Yesterday that is...)How many candles did you put on the cake?
Like others who have commented...I enjoy your pix, caustic wit and your love of old songs,singers and musicians...
You could well be the oldest blogger going...
You know...Pat might be a neighbor of mine...SC is not that big you know...
Cheers
@ Uncle Ron -
ReplyDelete"You could well be the oldest blogger going..."
No, not likely - but I used the 'handle' of "Oldest Living Blogger"
for quite a while on a blog that I did on a local website here in Vancouver called 'Urban Vancouver' which is now defunct because it was originally conceived as a test site for further development of an open-source program called 'Drupal' which can be used for making websites like that community blogging website 'Urban Vancouver' which a lot of us were blogging on 5 or 6 years ago. It got abandoned by its creators because their company got taken over by another, and the new one wasn't interested in that aspect of it. They got rid of the guys who built that website and there is now no access to it even for previously signed-in members like me. Try this link, in case it works:-
http://urbanvancouver.com/search/node/Oldest+Living+Blogger