the screaming pages

When I was a little girl, my parents taught me a number of nursery rhymes. One of them included a reference to Guy Fawkes.

Remember, remember, the 5th of November
The Gunpowder Treason and plot;
I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.

I didn’t learn that there were historical connections to many nursery rhymes until high school (pop goes the weasel anyone?).

Guy Fawkes’ and his attempt to demolish the British parliament has remained fresh in the minds of many throughout the centuries. Aside from the graphic novel V for Vendetta (and movie), he has inspired poets, musicians, authors, and poets.

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Happy Halloween – or as we like to call it in our house – happy “dogs go barky barky all night” day.

I’m thrilled to report I’ll be able to attend the Support our Troops Rally at Churchill Square on Friday. I’m looking forward to it – not just because I get to demonstrate my support for the guy in blue (and green) who shares my home, life and love but also because I may get a chance to meet up with the Dust my Broom crew. My only worry is that I won’t know how to recognize them without the Smelly Hippies sign!

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Over at Yahoo! News, there’s an article titled Americans’ obesity add to extra gasoline consuption: study. I can’t believe that someone wasted the time, money and energy to complete a study on this. Ask anyone who drives a pick-up truck and places sand bags or other hefty items in the box for traction in winter what happens to their gas mileage. *hint* It doesn’t get any better… It only makes sense that if the bodies in the cars are heavier they will also make an impact in the mileage of vehicles. Cars and trucks don’t care if the extra weight is coming from a piece of furniture, sand bags, or extra bodies, the mileage is affected by the overall weight.

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Despite getting out of bed at 7 am and getting to the garage at 7:30 we didn’t get the truck in for the winter tire installation. They’d already had 85 vehicles dropped off between midnight the night before at 7am. If we were willing to leave the truck at the garage until Monday we could have had the tires installed but that just wasn’t a viable option. Guess it’ll be a trip up to the base hobby shop (or whatever it’s called) for the hubby to swap out the tires by his lonesome tomorrow.

There’s a tonne of snow on my back deck and the dogs are having way too much fun playing in it. From early this morning it hasn’t really stopped snowing all day…

Support Our Troops: If you’re in Edmonton on Friday, November 3rd, drop by Sir Winston Churchill Square to show your support for our troops in Afghanistan and all over the world. The rally is at 11:30 am. Along with your red cheeks, noses and toes, you can wear red clothing to show your support.

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Bah! It’s that time of year again and snow is just starting to fall. A few times last week I woke to snow and once again it’s made an appearance.

Tomorrow we get up at O dark 30 to drive to garage and get my winter tires installed on my truck. They don’t take appointments and if we don’t want to be sitting in the waiting room for the bulk of the day, I need to crawl out of bed while it’s still dark. So much for getting some much needed sleep after the end of a grueling (mentally and emotionally) week.

Once that’s done we’ll be taking the RV up to the storage compound to wave it goodbye for another season. We didn’t get out in it at all this year so we’ve already started making plans for trips out to the mountain in spring.

Happy red Friday everyone!

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