I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas & a Happy New Years.  Be safe. 

I have a list of folks I know, all written in a book

And every year when Christmas comes, I go and take a look.

And that is when I realize, that these names are a part.

Not of a book they’re written in, but of my very heart.

For each name stands for someone, who has crossed my path sometime,

And in that meeting they’ve become, the Rhythm in each Rhyme.

And while it sounds fantastic, for me to make this claim,

I really feel that I’m composed, of each remembered name.

And while you may not be aware, of any special link,

Just meeting you has changed my life, a lot more than you think.

For once you’ve met somebody, the years cannot erase,

The memory of a pleasant word, or of a friendly face.

So never think my Christmas cards, are just a mere routine,

Of names upon a Christmas list, forgotten in between.

For when I send a Christmas card, that is addressed to you,

It’s because you are on the list, of folks whom I’m indebted to.

For I am but the total, of many folks I’ve met,

And you happened to be one of those, I prefer not to forget.

And whether I have known you, for many years or few,

In some way you have had a part, in shaping things I do.

And every year when Christmas comes, I realize anew,

The best Gift Life can offer, is meeting folks like you.

And may the spirit of Christmas, that forever endures,

Leave its richest blessings in the hearts, of you and yours.

Here is a cool video of the Budweiser Donkey wanting to be a Clydesdale.  Great commercial done up many years ago.  We need more of these.  I have to say that Budweiser is one great beer too.   Click Link Below to view.

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Okay, I have watched many funny video’s relating to man and women.  My son Craig sent me this link of how a mans mind and a womans mind works.  It is about ten minutes long and is a must to watch.  I am sure you will all get a good laugh.  Let me know what you think.    Enjoy.  Click Link to view.  GW

The old Indian chief sat in his home on the reservation, smoking his ceremonial pipe, eying the two U.S. government officials sent to interview him. “Chief Two Eagles,” one official began, “you have observed the white man for many years. You have seen all his progress and all his problems.” The chief nodded. The official continued, “What do you think of all the white man has done?” The chief stared at the officials for more than a minute, and then calmly replied.

“When white man found the land, Indians were running it. No taxes. No debt. Plenty buffalo, plenty beaver. Women did most of the work. Medicine man free. Indian men hunted and fished all the time.” The chief paused, then added, “Only white man dumb enough to think he could improve system like that.”

I agree 100%

United States Dollars

1.3886896000 USA

0.7201033262 Canada

Currency Unit For Snow Birds

US Dollar                Canadian Dollar
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Here is a link that is quite interesting.  How trains moves snow from the tracks.   Enjoy!

Trains Plowing Through Snowy Railway Tracks

Well been awhile since my last post.  Made it home safe from Florida now enjoying nature in its best.  Florida is nice to say the least but so is Port Loring Ontario.  Temperatures today are quite balmy sitting at 4.6 C | 40.28 F.  Suppose to stay there in that range for two more days.  Okay by me. Gives the ice on my roof a chance to melt.  Today wife and I went for a nice long walk through nature.  As we try and do every day.  We have a nice spot half way and to just sit and listen is something in itself.   As I said to the wife while sitting there.  “What do you hear?”  “Nothing she said.”   “Isn’t it great?”  Sometimes in life, nothing is all that is needed.   Enjoy your day.   GW

Hi folks was wondering if anyone has a piece of 7 inch insulated stove pipe, that they don’t need.  I am in need of a piece so I can extend my chimney a touch.  Trying to deal with an issue or two up on the roof.   If so you can reach me at [email protected] or      705 757 1640.

Really Good Article had sent to me thought I would share. Touch long but worth the read.

Sincerely,

David
District Representative and Water Management Division.

Here is the actual response sent back by Mr. DeVries:

Re: DEQ File
No.. 97-59-0023; T11N; R10W, Sec. 20; Lycoming County

Dear Mr. Price,

Your certified letter dated 11/17/12 has been handed to me. I am the legal landowner but not the Contractor at 2088 Dagget Lane , Trout Run, Pennsylvania .

A couple of beavers are in the process of constructing and maintaining two wood ‘debris’ dams across the outlet stream of my Spring Pond. While I did not pay for, authorize, nor supervise their dam project, I think they would be highly offended that you call their skillful use of natures building materials ‘debris.’

I would like to challenge your department to attempt to emulate their dam project any time and/or any place you choose. I believe I can safely state there is no way you could ever match their dam skills, their dam resourcefulness, their dam ingenuity, their dam persistence, their dam determination and/or their dam work ethic.

These are the beavers/contractors you are seeking. As to your request, I do not think the beavers are aware that they must first fill out a dam permit prior to the start of this type of dam activity.

My first dam question to you is:
(1) Are you trying to discriminate against my Spring Pond Beavers, or
(2) Do you require all beavers throughout this State to conform to said dam request?

If you are not discriminating against these particular beavers, through the Freedom of Information Act, I request completed copies of all those other applicable beaver dam permits that have been issued. (Perhaps we will see if there really is a dam violation of Part 301, Inland Lakes and Streams, of the Natural Resource and Environmental Protection Act, Act 451 of the Public Acts of 1994, being sections 324.30101 to 324.30113 of the Pennsylvania Compiled Laws, annotated.)

I have several dam concerns. My first dam concern is, aren’t the beavers entitled to legal representation? The Spring Pond Beavers are financially destitute and are unable to pay for said representation — so the State will have to provide them with a dam lawyer.

The Department’s dam concern that either one or both of the dams failed during a recent rain event, causing flooding, is proof that this is a natural occurrence, which the Department is required to protect. In other words, we should leave the Spring Pond Beavers alone rather than harassing them and calling them dam names.

If you want the damed stream ‘restored’ to a dam free-flow condition please contact the beavers — but if you are going to arrest them, they obviously did not pay any attention to your dam letter, they being unable to read English.

In my humble opinion, the Spring Pond Beavers have a right to build their unauthorized dams as long as the sky is blue, the grass is green and water flows downstream. They have more dam rights than I do to live and enjoy Spring Pond. If the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection lives up to its name, it should protect the natural resources (Beavers) and the environment (Beavers’ Dams).

So, as far as the beavers and I are concerned, this dam case can be referred for more elevated enforcement action right now. Why wait until 1/31/2013? The Spring Pond Beavers may be under the dam ice by then and there will be no way for you or your dam staff to contact/harass them.

In conclusion, I would like to bring to your attention to a real environmental quality, health, problem in the area It is the bears! Bears are actually defecating in our woods. I definitely believe you should be persecuting the defecating bears and leave the beavers alone. If you are going to investigate the beaver dam, watch your dam step! The bears are not careful where they dump!

Being unable to comply with your dam request, and being unable to contact you on your dam answering machine, I am sending this response to your dam office.

THANK YOU,

RYAN & THE DAM BEAVERS

This would be an eye opener for a mother. I would think.  Take a look.

SOMETHING TO  THINK ABOUT!!!! Written By A Lady.

THE  ONLY THING WRONG WITH THE GOVERNMENT’S CALCULATION OF  AVAILABLE CPP IS THAT THEY FORGOT TO FIGURE IN THE PEOPLE WHO DIED BEFORE THEY EVER COLLECTED A  CPP CHEQUE!!!

WHERE  DID THAT MONEY GO?

Remember,  not only did you and I contribute to CPP but your employer did, too. It totalled 15% of your  income before taxes. If you averaged only $30K over  your working life, that’s close to $220,500. Read that  again. Did you see where the Government paid in one  single penny?

We  are talking about the money you and your employer put  in a Government bank to insure you and I that we would  have a retirement cheque from the money we put in, not  the Government. Now they are calling the money we put  in an entitlement when we reach the age to take it  back. If you calculate the future invested value of  $4,500 per year (yours & your employer’s  contribution) at a simple 5% interest (less than what  the govt. pays on the money that it borrows), after 49  years of working you’d have  $892,919.98.

If  you took out only 3% per year, you’d receive  $26,787.60 per year and it would last better than 30  years (until you’re 95 if you retire at age 65) and  that’s with no interest paid on that final amount on  deposit! If you bought an annuity and it paid 4% per  year, you’d have a lifetime income of $2,976.40 per  month.

Another  thing with me…. I have two deceased husbands who  died in their 50’s, (one was 51 and the other one was  59 before one percent of their CPP could  be drawn). I worked all my life and am drawing 100% from my own CPP so I am receiving the maximum allowable payment per month. My two deceased husband’s CPP money will never  have one cent drawn from what they paid into the CPP plan all  their lives.

THE FOLKS IN OTTAWA HAVE PULLED OFF A BIGGER PONZI SCHEME THAN BERNIE MADOFF EVER DID.

Entitlement  my foot, I paid cash for my CPP!  Just because they borrowed the money for other  government spending, doesn’t make my benefits some  kind of charity or  handout!!

Remember  Senator’s benefits? — free health-care,  outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays,  three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days.  Now that’s welfare, and they have the nerve to call my  CPP retirement payments entitlements?

We’re  “broke” and the government can’t help our own Seniors, Veterans,  Orphans, or Homeless. Yet in the past few years we  have provided aid to Haiti , Chile, Turkey, Pakistan, etc., etc., etc.  Literally,  BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!! And they can’t help our own  citizens !

Our  retired seniors living on a ‘fixed income’ (CPP and OAS)   receive no additional federal aid nor do they get any  financial breaks, while our government and religious  organizations pour hundreds of billions of $$$ and  tons of food to foreign  countries!

They  call CPP an entitlement even  though most of us have been paying for it all our  working lives, and now, when it’s time for us to  collect, the government is running out of money. Why  did the government borrow from it in the first place?  It was supposed to be in a locked box, not part of the  general  fund.
     

Says It All.  Click Picture To Enlarge.

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Entitlement  my ass, I paid cash for my Old Age Security and CPP!!!! Just because they borrowed the  money, doesn’t make my benefits some kind of  charity or handout !! Gold plated MP pensions and Civil Service Government  benefits,  aka free health care, outrageous retirement  packages, 67 paid holidays, 20 weeks paid  vacation, unlimited paid sick days, now that’s  welfare, and they have the nerve to call me a ‘greedy senior’ and my  retirement, an entitlement  !!!!!!…..scroll  down…………….

What  the Hell’s wrong with us???

WAKE  UP CANADA !!!!

Someone please tell  me what the HELL’s wrong with all the people  that run this country!!!!!!

We’re “broke”  & can’t help our own Seniors, Veterans,  Orphans, Homeless  etc.,???????????
But spent 1.2 billions of dollars for G-20 events!
In the  last few months we have provided aid to Haiti ,  Chile , and Turkey . And now Khanistan ,  Pakistan …… Home of bin Laden.   Literally, BILLIONS of our DOLLARS!!!

Our  retired seniors living on a ‘fixed income’  receive no aid nor do they get any breaks while  our government and religious organizations pour  Hundreds of Billions of $$$$$$’s and Tons of  Food to Foreign  Countries!
They  call Old Age Security and Healthcare an  entitlement even though most of us have been  paying for it all our working lives and now when  it’s time for us to collect, the government is  running out of money. Why did the government  borrow from it in the first  place?
We have  hundreds of adoptable children who are shoved  aside to make room for the adoption of foreign  orphans.

CANADA:  a country where we have homeless without  shelter,  children going to bed hungry, hospitals being closed, average income families who can’t afford dental care, elderly going without ‘needed’ meds and having to travel 100’s of miles for medical care with no reimbursement of cost, vehicles we can’t afford gas for, lack of affordable housing, and mentally  ill without treatment – etc., etc.

YET…..
They  have a ‘Benefit’  for the people of Haiti  ships and planes lining up with food, water,  tents, clothes, bedding, doctors, and medical  supplies.

Imagine if  the *GOVERNMENT* gave ‘US’ the same support they  give to other countries.

Sad  isn’t it?

Interesting article that a fellow wrote in the good old USA.  Should also mention same thing is happening here in Canada too.  Click To Enlarge.

I liked this one.

An old Italian lived alone in New Jersey . He wanted to plant his annual tomato
garden, but it was very difficult
work, as the ground was hard.

His only son, Vincent, who used to help him, was in prison. The old man wrote a
letter to his son and described his predicament:

Dear Vincent,
I am feeling pretty sad because it looks like I won’t be able to plant my tomato garden this year.
I’m just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot. I know if you were here my troubles would
be over.
I know you would be happy to dig the plot for me, like in the old days.
Love,
    Papa

A few days later he received a letter from his son.

   Dear Papa,
    Don’t dig up that garden. That’s where the bodies are buried.
    Love, Vinnie

At 4 a.m. the next morning, FBI agents and local police arrived and dug up the entire area without finding any bodies. They apologized to the old man and left. That same day the old man received another letter from his son.

  Dear Papa,
Go ahead and plant the tomatoes now. That’s the best I could do
under the circumstances.
Love you,
    Vinnie

A bit more humor;

A senior woman went to the doctor’s office where she was seen by one of the older doctors.  After about four minutes in the examination room, she burst out screaming as she ran down the hall.  A younger doctor stopped her and asked what the problem was, and she told him her story.  After listening, he had her sit down and relax in another room.  The young doctor then marched down the hallway back to where the old doctor was writing on his clipboard.
“What did you do?!” the younger doctor demanded.  “Mrs. Terry is 71 years old, has four grown children and seven grandchildren, and you told her she was pregnant?”
The older doctor continued writing and without looking up said, “Does she still have the hiccups?”