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1. 1 day ago on One Big Happy

   My cousin and I were about ten years old when our very funny (well, WE thought he was!) and colourful young uncle taught us most of the verses to a true Canadian classic: “The North Atlantic Squadron”.

   Not surprisingly, my Mum and my Aunt were not as amused as we were.

   Of course, they didn’t like us singing “Seven Drunken Nights” either, alas.

2. 3 days ago on Adam@Home

   For all of us Parrot Heads out there….Jimmy Buffett! (RIP. “What do you do when a person who gives you such great memories becomes a memory?”)

   I listen to and still enjoy everything, all genres, but growing up the 60s in ‘Cattle Country’ in northern BC with one AM radio station, Country ruled….Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, The Highwaymen, Lynn Anderson, The Hag, with Tommy Hunter, Gordon Lightfoot and Anne Murray as well…it was like a breath of fresh air to come to Vancouver and discover BTO, Trooper, Prism, The Tragically Hip, Chilliwack, April Wine, Rush….

3. 6 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Sounds like our current Prime Minister…

4. 6 days ago on Sherman's Lagoon

   …and that is why reading them every morning over my first cup of coffee is truly a delight….

5. 6 days ago on One Big Happy

   Yup, me too…and the vaccine was bright red, and to my little boy eyes looked like a drop of blood on the sugar cube, so it was really cool

6. 8 days ago on Animal Crackers

   And ya know, once you accept that you do NOT have to act your age…life is a whole lot more fun…

   The single problem is, though, not acting your age can come with consequences. For example, riding a shopping cart down the ramp at our local big box grocery store, racing the grand-nephew, and failing to negotiate the 45 degree turn at the bottom….sigh. Clearly I don’t heal as quick as I once did.

7. 9 days ago on Adam@Home

   He’s drinking the same water that Elizabeth is in “For Better or Worse”….

   Apparently tall kids is a ‘thing’ today….

8. 9 days ago on Red and Rover

   The one cool thing…with Rover waiting for Red at home, they get to experience what is always going to be a sweet happy reunion every day…and that is one of the bits of magic of having a dog…

   In my case it was the neighbour’s elderly lab who, for reasons that escaped everyone, myself included, picked me to be her best bud. No matter how rough my day was, no matter what kind of stress or nonsense, no matter what kind of cloud I had hanging over my head….it all evaporated when I came up the street and saw her lumbering across the yard to wait for me…

9. 12 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Just yesterday I was digging through a couple old boxes and came upon a large manila envelope. For reasons that entirely escape me, but for which I am gleefully grateful, a-bit-younger-me chose to save a couple dozen of the comic sections from The Vancouver Sun and Vancouver Province from the late 1980s. Both papers were printed in the same facility, so they had both switched their comic sections to a comic book sized format. Truly a wonderful walk down memory lane reading through these….Peanuts, Archie, Cathy, Robot Man (not Monty!) Rex Morgan, Tarzan, Calvin and Hobbs, Adam, Marvin, Family Circus, Dennis The Menace, Prince Valiant, Mandrake, Fred Basset, Bloome County, Doonesbury…the list goes on and on…and on. Each paper had its own line up of twenty different strips, all on paper, all in colour, plus a crossword.

   Yup, most of these are still available today, and being online, access is pretty much unlimited…but starting when I was a kid in the 60s with my Dad, and carried into my young adulthood in the 80s, it was a glorious Saturday tradition to read The Sun, and Sunday’s to tackle The Province…and just like today, reading the comics was the best part.

10. 12 days ago on B.C.

    Sure. They’ve also got them to the east in Alberta and south of us in Washington State…..LOL