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Sunday, February 12th, 2012, 9:55 p.m.

Years ago, as a youngster, I became hooked on awards. It was a way of showing others that I was good at something. Never satisfied with just one award, I went on to earn others, cub badges, scout badges, racing ribbons, school sweater badges, just about anything that proved I had some skills. I then went on to the Kin organization and while there from 1966 to 1969 and 1974 until 1986, I got too involved with everything. Today I have a wall of thirt...

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012, 10:55 p.m.

Friendships are an interesting thing. My parents had a close friendship with their neighbours at the lake before 2005. The neighbours were more like my age than that of my parents. In fact, there is a closer relationship between my younger sister by three years than my parents had with them as neighbours. I think they looked at my parents as replacements for their own parents as it was the feeling I got at times when I was down there. When my pa...

Friday, February 4th, 2012

Every day the year is going by faster. It is hard to believe that this week was full from Monday to Friday with a trip somewhere to do something each day, mostly to see doctors, have my ears tested, have my toenails cut at the hospital, and then back to the hospital drugstore again today to pick up a three month supply of pills which seem to be doing wonders with my body. For whatever reason, I have lost something like 20 pounds in the past month because of my...

FEBRUARY 1ST, 2012, 2:42 P.M.

I suppose you are wondering about the title of today's blog. Well it is SMTWTFS otherwise pronounced with a silent F as SMITWITS. It is the name given to pill takers who spend their lives filling the little boxes full of a variety of pills hoping to solve one thing or another in the process. Well, I have to admit, at age 67 I too have become a SMITWITS character. Failthfully each week I fill the little boxes with a whole variety of some do...

January 31st, 2012, 7:05 a.m.

I am a real movie buff. I even have a B.A. degree in film studies, one of my many interests in life. In fact, I have been a movie extra in films like Searching for Bobby Fischer and five other movies for the screen or TV. I was the gas station jockey in Strange Invaders although most of the shots ended up on the cutting room floor. When I saw the launch of the film in Toronto, I was most surprised to learn that the opening scenes that...

Sunday, January 22nd, 2012,  10:30 p.m.

Well, today's topic is pills. You know, sometimes we refuse taking pills for one reason or another. After my mother was almost over medicated on too many different drugs by a country doctor and began to lose her hearing,she only then realized that some things in the country did not keep up to what was going on in the rest of the world. I am sure the old doctor was doing his best and meant well but it was not helpi...

Saturday, January 28th, 2012 10:50 a.m.

I often get a really good kick out of political humour and there are certain cartoonist that have turned it into a real art. I also get a laugh out of some of what I call, "backlash" type of humour where the value of elected individuals is rated down to the lowest level, often because of the actions of a few along the way. You cannot cover up, lie about or expect to get away with everything all your life, whether you are an individual or a politic...

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

Well, believe it or not, I just found parsnips for the first time. It is interesting how one's body reacts to certain things. I thought they were delicious when boiled and mashed with margarine. I did not realize thogh that my daughter had such a big hate for the veggies which I enjoy. While brussel sprouts are not my favourite, I will eat them. Along with those go lima beans or as the British called them, Broad Beans (and that is a story i...

Wednesday, January 25, 2012 9:55 p.m.

Peanut butter.....I just love peanut butter. In fact, I love salted peanuts, chocolate coated peanuts, split peanuts, raw peanuts, peanuts in the shell and especially peanut butter cookies. They have been a favourite since childhood and no other cookie could meet the taste of the exquisite peanut butter cookie, except maybe the peanut cookies made by Voortman, the Canadian manufacturers. They have actual peanuts on top...yummmmmmm! But those things ...

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

I wanted to write about monuments and other related things today. It is something that seems to identify people down through history. Some like those of the kings of shame in this world, like the dictators known as Edie Amin, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Saddam Hussein, and a whole bunch more were largely statutes raised in toast by the leaders to themselves. When deposed or when their reign ended by death, the statutes became the targets of those who ...