Wordless Wednesday
A couple of weeks ago my husband and I and our dog went for a hike in the woods. I found these lovely flowers on a river bank, I think they might be Jewelweed, and as I gazed at the flowers I noticed that the bumble bees were hovering around the flowers.
I caught this one as it was coming in for a landing:
Here’s a shot of the bee in the flower. All you can see is it’s behind!
If you haven’t already heard Canada will be having an election on October 14th to possibly select a new Prime Minister. Harper, the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and the current Prime Minister of Canada has been running the country for the last two years or so under a minority government, on Sunday he decided to dissolve parliament and set an election date.
Don’t quote me on this, but I think our last three elections (in four years???) have resulted in Minority governments. That means the ruling party has enough seats to win the election, but not enough to hold a majority. It’s shaky ground whenever this happens.
I do find it kind of funny that in the US they take almost two years to build up to an election, yet here we call snap elections and within a month or two it’s done and over with. This election will only take 37 days from the time it was officially called till voting day on October 14th.
Take a quick look at what other bloggers have to say I think many Canadians are feeling as I do … I don’t have a clue who to vote for. I don’t really like any of the leaders of the three main parties, nor do I totally agree with any of their platforms.
Here’s what others are saying about the upcoming Canadian election:
Canadian Election October 14th … Like I Care.
Finally the election announcement we were expecting up here in the “Great White North” has come to pass. The trickster of 24 Sussex Drive, has exhibited yet another of his talents … that of chameleon. This is the guy who promised …
On the Canadian Election: Why You Need To Vote
One of the things I’ve been hearing a lot in the media is that there’s some idea of election exhaustion here in Canada. Not only are we approaching our 3rd election in 4 years, for the last year, we’ve been his with the US primaries and …
You know it’s a Canadian Election when…
Ed: It seems Ed Stelmach has taken a page from Ralph Klein’s playbook, deciding to play the role of pundit on the federal election campaign. And, whatever, I can’t criticize him for that when you consider that McGuinty and Danny …
Canadian Election Called for October 14
The party leaders by LeDaro They do it fast up here; 36 days from the announcement until the election. But then unlike the States, all the leaders are in place and well known, all of the policies and platforms ready to go, …
What’s your take on the upcoming Canadian Federal election?
Chris was on vacation for the last two weeks and I just realized this morning that we didn’t even do the laundry once during his StayCation. LOL
It’s ok, we’re not smelly … we have lots of clothes. I guess I’ll have to put a few loads on tomorrow though!
We don’t have a dishwasher and we even managed to go several days without doing the dishes! By the time we did them on Saturday we had enough to fill both kitchen sinks.
I guess we were being lazy. We were going out and doing summery things in the city – like the hike I described in my Horses in the City post. We also had lots of drop in guests or went to visit relatives and friends during Chris’ vacation so we were busy, but in a relaxed kind of way. I guess that’s why my posts slowed down for a while too.
What did you do for your summer vacation – if you took one?
On Saturday Chris and I had a leisurely day. No plans, just enjoying a nice warm summer day.
Late in the afternoon Chris decided that we should go to a place called “Sunnybrook Farm”. It’s part of a park and there’s a horse stable there and I guess members can ride the horses. We just went there to observe. We wanted to take our puppy to see the horses. We thought she’d enjoy seeing a different kind of animal and I think we were right.
here’s one of the horse that was wandering around in the open coral.
I just love horses and I must admit that I haven’t seen one in person in a very long time. We stood watching the horses for quite a while, then we went for a hike in the adjoining park, through the forest and even into a creek with our dog.
That’s Chris and Midnight stumbling over rocks in the water. At least they got to cool off! It was a very hot day.
I think that we are going to have the last taste of summer this weekend. It’s been a strange year weather wise, from heavy heavy snows throughout the winter (we got at least twice as much as we normally do here in Toronto) to record breaking rainfall this summer, not to mention cooler temperatures too.
Most of July and August were a lot cooler than normal. The two main benefits we got out of this odd summer were the fact that we didn’t have to water our garden as much, thus saving a lot of money on water, and we didn’t run our air-conditioner anywhere near as much as we normally do, so that should decrease our energy bill.
This weekends going to be nice. It’s supposed to be warm right into the middle of next week or longer. I suspect that this might be our last bit of warm weather though as they keep saying we’re supposed to have an early winter … yeah, what else is new after the year we’ve already had! LOL
Even though we’ve had a strange cool and wet summer it’s hard to believe that we’ll soon be preparing for Thanks Giving and picking out Halloween costumes isn’t it?
Ah well … I’m going to enjoy this weekend as best I can! We might go up to my sister in laws cottage. We’ll take the dog and let her swim in the lake. It should be a good time for all!
Plus it’s my birthday next week, so I might as well start celebrating this weekend!
Do you have plans for Labor Day Weekend?