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So our version of the Superbowl is today. The 97th annual Grey Cup. Don't expect much music from John, I'm making chicken wings, meatballs, etc. We have to get the game in now so we don't have to use snowshoes. LOL.
I never bet in my life, but if I did I'd put 10 cents of Saskatchewan, a place so flat you can watch your dog run away for 3 days.
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Hey John - LOL here. That dog running away is a beautiful image. This is the 97th Grey Cup. Remember some of those western Cups back in the day? The frozen grass. Artificial turf was a step up in softness. The Westerners riding their horses through the hotel lobbies. The annual grand national drunk! My two-bits is on the Als! I'll practice guitar during the game with sound turned down and the captioning on - it's a two-fer situation - but I need to build my calluses back up since I don't play bars anymore. Cheers . . . cheers again! 
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I remember as a kid watching the progress of the trains from both coasts, full of party people going to he game. Special trains. My grandfather was a steam loco mechanic and they moved him and a couple of steam engines every year up to the route, he took the 'used' ones back to the shop in Lindsay and they overhauled them. The train trips died out in the 60's. They gave him his walking papers after 17 years, his post war job, no severance, no pension, no notice. Got a 10 year rail pass though.
Blue Rodeo this year. The Black Eyed peas went over like 10 lead balloons, was that last year?
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I remember those trains too - safer than putting some of those yahoos on airplanes.  That stuff about your grandfather . . . just another mile post on the road to unions, eh? Black-eyed peas - thought you cooked with 'em, son . . . they didn't capture my interest - I was making popcorn - real hot-air, real butter. Enjoy the game - oh, that's quite a family website you're developing, John.
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Whoo hoo, we just got invited to play in the annual Tuba Euphonium Christmas celebration. All heavy brass, I just got the arrangements via pdf, sure is simple compared to the stuff we get at the Plumbing Factory Brass Band. And in both clefs, amazing. I can read the bass but I can glance at the treble once per line instead of needing to see each note. Too many fake books. My wife is playing baritone and Dr. Hank says I can have a double bell euphonium so I look cool.
My wife is going to turn 50. She says guitar is next. Wait 'till her fingers hurt. We've got a violin she can play, she knows all the notes and positions but won't play it. Go figure. I bought her a clarinet, she had me trade it for a flute. I threatened her with an oboe but to no avail.
She took 5 years of music in university on top of the 15 years before getting there. Learned every instrument, got her teaching degree, and only ever taught part time at home.
At least I'm not a golfer. | just heard some guy in the States had his wife chase him down the driveway with a 9 iron, he wrecked the car, and she wailed on his face and took a mulligan and did it again. This may turn out to be a lesson to all of us. It's safer to go fishin.
When i get the RV in the next 18 months or so, I'm going to head back to Cantley and stay there for a few months. Went there every year for at least 10 when i had a tent trailer. Maybe we could share a laugh or two at the inn in Wakefield. I used to love hearing the steam train and whistle from the campground in the dark. My grandfather let me give her steam on the siding a few times, and of course pull the whistle cord and ring the bell. The wife says I always went for a walk cause it made me cry. Probably.
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My previous postal code was S6V 6R3. Only spent the first 50 years of my life in SK.
We are obviously not pinning a lot of hope on the 'Riders capturing the cup, but we can hope. That's what living in SK instills in a person - hope.
My wife will be wearing her green and white sweater.
The dominant colour in the stands in Calgary will be green and those wearing the green will not be quiet.
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John Congrats on the gig - I've never bought a woman a gift that hasn't exchanged Make sure she uses light gauge (not nylon unless she's fingerpicking. The Black Sheep Inn sounds like an idea John. About your grandfather and railways - hope you enjoy http://web.ncf.ca/ifraser/Trainlines.html Glenn Expect you will be right about the noise - are they expecting snow? Remember Rough Riders vs Roughriders - rumour has it that Ottawa's new CFL team will carry the same moniker . . . I hope.
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+9 C a Chinook and no snow.
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Expect you will be right about the noise - are they expecting snow?
Remember Rough Riders vs Roughriders - rumour has it that Ottawa's new CFL team will carry the same moniker . . . I hope.
It's in Calgary - expect anything. Calgary has the most changeable weather in Canada (which likely means all of North America).
One thing for sure, they hold the record for the largest temp swing in one day. Can't recall it exactly, but is in the range of -20C in the morning and when a chinook hits, it can go to +20C in the afternoon (for the others here that's a 72F change).
I have several friends there, and I like to remind them that their "best" weather occurs in late May or early June - a wet, sticky snowstorm.
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Great game so far. I'm kinda on the fence. Lived in Montreal, never in Saskatchewan, which is next door to Winterpeg.
I'm pulling for Sask. It's a Corner Gas thing. Now there's a show the Americans on here should get to see. That's us...my Grandfather walked to the corner garage in the village every day for his one a day smoke. At 80 made the walk, said hi to my 2nd cousin, and fell over dead.
A great man. Deacon in the Baptist Church until they changed ministers. The new guy booted him over smoking and having a daily beer. 6 months later he was back running things. Was a baker in WW2 in an artillery battery in England from the start to the end of the war. Couldn't hold a glass of anything for the shell shock. He's walk downtown in the village and 20 dogs went with him.
I drove from Sask to N. Dakota one time and the American Border Guard from Texas kept us an hour.. apoligised later, he was bored. Said he was being punished for something he did on the Mexican Border, and got sent to some one man border crossing. Told me he was never leaving there, they thought they sent him to hell and he went to paradise.
Nostalgia is getting to me, as you might notice.
10 to 3, almost 1/2 time, the green Riders winning. My Dad just left, I guess at 81 you go to bed at 9, I wait until 11 LOL.
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John:
You'll never guess what I saw on TV - a Montreal Als sweater on a fan.
Jeez he must feel out of place.
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Well if that wasn't the most disgusting stupid mistake made in football I have ever seen.
I thought twelve was = dozen.
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It was over and then not.
They said no sense to have someone in the endzone might as well rush all 12.
Then the guy who went to the endzone, well they forgot to tell him.
Some times you gotta shake your head.
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Tidbits on Calgary weather... we say "if you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes..."; and "if you want to know about the weather tomorrow, ask me the day after tomorrow." LOL.
We have a lot of people here in Calgary who moved from Saskatchewan... and many (most) seem to be quit successful. So I asked one of them to explain this to me... His answer: "They told us if we don't succeed, they'll send us back!" BTW, there's a sign at the border between Alberta and Saskatecewan, it sez "The last person out, please turn off the lights!" [Although, lately, Saskatechewan has been booming and the migration pattern has somewhat reversed itself... LOL.]
When it's cold in Saskatchewan it could get VERY COLD (-40C)... so these 2 guys couldn't take it anymore and decide to go somewhere warm in the middle of winter. They land in the middle of Australia and walk into the first bar they find -- still wearing their heavy winter parkas... One of the patrons notices them and asks his friend to go over ask them where they're from... So the guy goes over and asks: "Where're you guys from?" and they reply "Saskatoon, Saskatechewan." The friend comes back and his friend asks "So where are they from?" and the friend says "I don't know, they don't speak English!" LOL.
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