Whew! I'm back from a wonderful vacation, back home in Cape Breton. Every day was busy and happy and filled with relatives. I watched and laughed at Ron James (via dvds) with Dad, listened to the nephews play the piano, and went to Celtic Colours shows (insert lots of hopping toes here). And each morning was lovely - as all of us in the house gradually would meet up at H and L's breakfast table, we drank pots of coffee, munched toast and jam (and Miss Auntie and I would share a pear), read the papers, and, especially, chatted and laughed together. I loved it!

I was in the airport in Toronto on the way home, and picked up part of a National Post. I came across this comic, "Pooch Cafe". This is for you, John! So, what was your animal population when you got home, and how many raccoons were there, pretending to be cats?!

This Hockey Mum is supporting Obama!

Celtic Colours Festival in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

Will I see you at this year’s Celtic Colours festival in Cape Breton? I’m packed and ready to go!

Geography quizzes! They even have a test of flags of countries visited, from seasons of The Amazing Race...bet you can't play just one! (...cause I sure can't...)

Travel Pod

Inflatable self-assembled electric car can safely drive off cliffs

This…is cool. Hopefully it will be available by 2010:





Creators of the first roll manufactured vehicle. Proprietary aerospace engineering & novel power systems bring you the best priced, safest, longest-range-electric, most durable, vehicles on Earth!
(The above pic is from this website)

snippets from this website, and also from this article "Inflatable electric car can drive off cliffs"

“… maybe it's the fact that you buy the car online, it gets shipped to you in two cardboard boxes, and the estimated assembly time is less than two hours.

Perhaps it's that the car is made out of "airbags" - the same polymer materials used to cushion NASA's rovers when they landed on Mars.

Then again, it could be the company's claim that you can drive the car off a cliff without serious injury, and that it will float in a flood or tsunami.”

“The key advantages over competitors are that these are the safest, longest range, lowest cost vehicles which can be flat-pack shipped directly to users.”

The Difference Between Cats and Dogs

I found the following explanation on the internet, unattributed. Obviously penned by someone with experience living with both cats and dogs. :-)

The difference between dogs and cats?

Dogs look up at their human and think, "They feed me. They pet me. They love me. They must be God."

Cats think, "They feed me. They pet me. They love me. I must be God."




Pic: Molly, Madeline (a.k.a. Catilla the Hun), Max

HAPPY CANADA DAY!