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Many years ago there was a forest fire near our farm. It was very worrisome to watch! We heard the helicopters and water bombers working away. Today was a repeat except our daughter now owns the farm. The fire seems to be in the same general area as before. It has doubled in size every day for three days and is now over 9,000 hectares.

Adding to today's news is the report we had that our son was observed driving his motor bike recklessly!
 
KayTheCurler said:
Adding to today's news is the report we had that our son was observed driving his motor bike recklessly!
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A man driving a bike recklessly? Lard almighty, wonders will never cease. :D

I am so glad Little M seems to have given up on getting one.
 
Good morning! In a world of Sunday drivers, there is an isle of calm around the coffee cart. Help yourself to the hot beverage of your chouce.

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Mendalla said:
A man driving a bike recklessly? Lard almighty, wonders will never cease. :D
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When the man has a severe brain injury from a previous crash it becomes more bothersome methinks. Just add poor decision making ability, poor balance, memory difficulties, impulsivity to the mix. I fear he will crash again and we are still adjusting to what happened the first time and the second time. It is no consolation to us that other people act stupidly on motor bikes - this is our kid!
 
Ohh ... those brain injuries are such a challenge. That old phrase - you don't know what you don't know - comes to mind. Awareness and anticipation of effects of one's actions/decision can certainly be impaired in the long term. Must be such a worry for you Kay.
 
Around here the "Sunday drivers" are out & about, according to my mate who just got home from a store pick-up. And the drivers of another sort are out and about on our golf courses today too! I'm going to get dressed & head out to my garden in the cool sunshine.

Thanks for the coffee to get me started Redbaron! You are an unfailingly great and faithful barista.
 
Did a quick jog out to fill my gas can for the mower (used it up yesterday). Traffic on Wonderland (the big North-South artery on London's West side) was pretty much what I would expect for a Sunday morning. Costco didn't look very busy, though. There was no lineup at the pumps and there seemed to plenty of parking available at the store. So not sure where everyone was going.

Supposed to rain for basically the next 24-36 hours here. Some drizzle when I was coming home, but nothing major yet.
 
Wow. I understand that Costco is a busy one. Perhaps everyone is sleeping in today. We're having a slow morning. That is pretty much our norm these days. The coffee was good.
 
Oh, my understanding of Sunday drivers was that its those old folks who mostly drive on Sundays ( to church) and are going really slow because they have nothing else to do. Most annoying if it is not Sunday and one has to get to work.
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
Oh, my understanding of Sunday drivers was that its those old folks who mostly drive on Sundays ( to church) and are going really slow because they have nothing else to do. Most annoying if it is not Sunday and one has to get to work.
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Oh, not here. Stores are all open Sunday, though malls don't usually open until noonish, so you can have a fair bit of traffic on Sunday, especially in peak shopping seasons like the run up to Christmas.
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
Oh, my understanding of Sunday drivers was that its those old folks who mostly drive on Sundays ( to church) and are going really slow because they have nothing else to do. Most annoying if it is not Sunday and one has to get to work.
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Bwahaha, I'm usually running late for church, and had a 30minute drive to get there. I'm not the one dawdling on the highway.
 
That’s interesting. Mine was exactly what you would call a Sunday driver in Germany. So, in Canada, meaning for “a Sunday driver“ is just a person driving on Sunday?
 
The forest fire in our locality is now 28,847 hectares - 71,282 acres - 11 square miles. Several communities are now on evacuation alert.
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
That’s interesting. Mine was exactly what you would call a Sunday driver in Germany. So, in Canada, meaning for “a Sunday driver“ is just a person driving on Sunday?
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No, a "Sunday driver" is a dawdler. I remember as a child that on Sunday afternoons, we would often pile into the car (usually 2 adults and 3 little girls in a Volkswagen Beatle), and go for "a drive". I remember hating these occasions, although I apparently learned a fair bit about my local geography and history from it. We'd usually have a "place" in mind - a pretty local falls, a historic site - and the trip often ended with a visit to the best kids' park in town (the lakeside one with the "twisty" slide, and maybe even, mid-summer, a visit to the Dairy Queen, where we could have a cone or a simply Mr Freezie.
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
That’s interesting. Mine was exactly what you would call a Sunday driver in Germany. So, in Canada, meaning for “a Sunday driver“ is just a person driving on Sunday?
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A Sunday driver is someone dawdling.

I wouldn't presume it is someone attending church
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
That’s interesting. Mine was exactly what you would call a Sunday driver in Germany. So, in Canada, meaning for “a Sunday driver“ is just a person driving on Sunday?
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Yeah, the term "Sunday driver" meaning someone driving slowly (dawdling as others aptly put it) goes back to the days before Sunday was just another commerce day and people really didn't have many places to go other than church, visiting, or events. Nowadays, people are as likely to be rushing around shopping or whatever on Sunday as they are "dawdling". I imagine it's one of those phrases that my children and grandchildren will think of a quaint and old-fashioned.
 
Snowbird down.....one fatality and one injured......one of the planes went down shortly after takeoff in Kamloops BC and crashed into a house in a residential area. Sad day:cry:
 
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