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Ahhh ... it's Friday again!! And a long weekend ... I've put a nice big bouquet of red & white flowers on the table, hung the flag outside, and added a bowl of fresh strawberries to the room - Canada Day is coming. We're starting into quite a heatwave here in southern Ontario - so it must be July!

What are people up to for the weekend? We've got some friends coming Sunday for our big Canada Day parade, and then lunch. We'll probably walk down to the park by the river for the fireworks display on Sunday night - it's usually excellent!
 
I learned today of another friend who has passed away suddenly the day I went over to Germany. After my other friend died suddenly, who had put off an outing with my to see the new Ikea store, I had invited this friend along for a day trip, and we had a good time, isiting Ikea and Costco. She picked a small table, which I had just put together and set up the week before her death.
I am glad I didn’t put it off. It will always be a fun memory.
 
Carolla said:
Ahhh ... it's Friday again!! And a long weekend ... I've put a nice big bouquet of red & white flowers on the table, hung the flag outside, and added a bowl of fresh strawberries to the room - Canada Day is coming. We're starting into quite a heatwave here in southern Ontario - so it must be July!

What are people up to for the weekend? We've got some friends coming Sunday for our big Canada Day parade, and then lunch. We'll probably walk down to the park by the river for the fireworks display on Sunday night - it's usually excellent!
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Going for ice cream to the sea cone with my friend tomorrow and the theater ( birthday gift from a friend) at night.
Cheering on this friend on Sunday, when she goes for the nationals selection competition in a strong man/ woman competition.
 
I have a flat of strawberries to much on....yum!

Tomorrow is church, and the churc is on the canada day parade route.
There will be booths and snacks for those on the route.

Looking forward to it.
 
Pinga said:
oh, mrs. anteater. sorry to hear of your loss
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Glad I have some friends left. Talking to my neighbours, who have survived the majority of their friends and family ( at 87), I was wondering yesterday, what it would be like. Have decided not to get into the habit of reading the orbits. It still seems morbid to me.
 
*sigh* Sister is back to work on Tuesday. I got one last weekday playtime at an indoor playground with them this morning. Was a new to me place this time. I really had fun with my nephews while my sister was on maternity leave this time. The first time around, I don't think we got together nearly as frequently, my health level was likely a big part of that.
 
Carolla said:
Ahhh ... it's Friday again!! And a long weekend ... I've put a nice big bouquet of red & white flowers on the table, hung the flag outside, and added a bowl of fresh strawberries to the room - Canada Day is coming. We're starting into quite a heatwave here in southern Ontario - so it must be July!
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Thank you Carolla. Sounds wonderful except for the strawbs (since I'm allergic to them). Adding some rasps and blues.

Carolla said:
What are people up to for the weekend?
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We're going camping at Indian Line.

Carolla said:
We've got some friends coming Sunday for our big Canada Day parade, and then lunch. We'll probably walk down to the park by the river for the fireworks display on Sunday night - it's usually excellent!
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Sounds good. Have a great weekend.
 
Mrs.Anteater, so sorry about your friend. I'm glad you will have good memories of timee recently spent with her. Her death must have sudden. You are young to be losing friends; wait until you pass your 3 score and ten.
The day after I got back from your place I was talking to a neighbour's daughter. "Please call my mom," she told me. "She's been concerned about you not being home." "But I told her I was going to be in NS on holiday." "Mom forgets." confirming what I had suspected in recent months; my friend is gradually losing her short term memory.
At bowling on Friday: a friend four days younger than me who has developed quite a curvature of the spine and lost about a foot of height: in three weeks she has gone from walking slowly and needing some help with stairs to short, hesitant, short steps with someone supporting her on either side. She speaks in a whisper, but her mind seems clear and with support she can still bowl.
Having missed reading the obits, I asked a neighbour if anyone had died recently. Yes, a former neighbour and bowler (league treasureer when I was president a few years ago) died threee weeks ago.
Sad

On the brighter side: I'm going to a 70th birthday party for a friend this afternoon.
 
Long ago I housesat for a boss who was a little reserved. She had just bought her house and we, her co-workers, were curious about it. So...I invited everyone over while I was house sitting so they could check it out. She found out about it and smiled, thinking that it had been a perfectly okay thing to do. I think I may have told her about it afterwards. Turns out she wasn't the stick in the mud we thought she was!
 
People surprise as often. It mostly happens when they prove they aren't just like we assumed them to be. Someone who is a bit shy about social events may be judged to be a snob (for example). I find it a struggle to NOT slap a mental label on someone based on my own first impression.
 
KayTheCurler said:
People surprise as often. It mostly happens when they prove they aren't just like we assumed them to be. Someone who is a bit shy about social events may be judged to be a snob (for example). I find it a struggle to NOT slap a mental label on someone based on my own first impression.
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hear hear
often the world doesn't fit into our mental ideas of it, what we think (and what we design from what we think) being truncated idealizations of reality

i had 2 furry (the subculture) acquaintances who were trying to gather publicity for their business, which was building fursuits (think animal mascots). they were lovers, one self-identified ad gay the other self-identified as female bisexual. they both lived in an area that is known as a Bible belt and they felt hemmed in by where they lived. they weren't getting much publicity past their online presence.

well, one day a guy comes up to them and says hez interested in their business and offers to help them with signage and flyers and stuff.

turns out the guy was an official from a local Church. and offered space there for help.

they took up the offer.

their business got more business.

amazing what g_ddess does sometimes
challenging our assumptions (ass u me lol)
 
Inannawhimsey said:
they both lived in an area that is known as a Bible belt
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I always wonder how more "fringe" subcultures like furries function in an environment like that. We hear about the problems of LGBTQ in Bible Belt areas, but rarely about other, more "out there", identities and subcultures. Glad it worked out for those two in the end and that the church guy was apparently pretty open-minded.
 
It is hot in southern ontario

I am at a program at five oaks, volunteering doing registration, snacks and so on.

The people here are from all over.

It is warm!

We have lots of water, we have ice, we have fruit as well as vegetables

Hoping the breeze picks up this aft

Thankful the pool is open
 
Mendalla said:
I always wonder how more "fringe" subcultures like furries function in an environment like that. We hear about the problems of LGBTQ in Bible Belt areas, but rarely about other, more "out there", identities and subcultures. Glad it worked out for those two in the end and that the church guy was apparently pretty open-minded.
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and i've noticed how various subcultures can have and are putting down or demonizing each other *facepalm*

being alive is a risk
being with people is a risk
being who one is is a risk

i'm glad that out there subcultures like tranz etc have become mainstream here imho and r protected in the important areas (like housing and work--truly bless peeps like Cheri Dinovo for their hard work).

also there is the element that all interactions r between people, that they arent causeless causes (or rather the Belief System that treats them as causeless causes methinks is a BS that doesn't work as well...i note MLK's radical love that people had 2 go through intense learning sessions 2 larn how to do it-- hopefully we can co create a wider society where people don't have 2 b heroic 2 b able 2 exist...i got the idea from a neet talk between Sam Harris and Russel Brand actually, where Brand mentioned he saw a scruffy guy lying down and he didnt stop his car to help him and wondered why. Harris proffered the notion that to help a homeless to really help them means a lot of effort and management etc that not everyone has the time etc to do so he envisioned a society that had the incentives so that people of mediocre etc. morality can actually help. got me to thinking)

addition to my above story: i believe some of the advertising for the business was banners at the Church...
 
Drinks and sweets...exactly what I need after a rather frustrating afternoon. I so want to be involved in a ministry that really reaches out to young people...not for the sake of a church surviving, but for their sake. Yet, it seems that I am foiled at every turn.
 
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