what a week and weekend
I hope this week isn’t as busy as last week. We started with the 100th anniversary of the
sinking of the Titanic, which I know was an emotional time for all of us. Who can forget
where they were the night we heard the news?
Then Tuesday was federal tax day in the U.S. and Thursday was Bicycle Day. Sunday had
both the hope of Earth Day and the crushing elimination of the Canucks from the NHL
playoffs. Obama had dual scandals: Secret Service agents protecting him from hookers
in Colombia by throwing their bodies on them; and the GSA, what with its profligate
spending and surly clown.
Fortunately, the two disgraces didn’t intersect. A whiff of surly clown sex, and the main-
stream media would have covered nothing else until the end of the Mayan calendar.
Amongst all this, we lost Dick Clark, the inventor of adolescence; Levon Helm, a co-founder
of The Band; Charles Colson, the GOP geek/Jesus freak; and Tiago Klimeck, a Brazilian actor
who was accidentally hung during a play.
Helm’s death was particularly jarring to me. I saw it on CNN as I was channel hopping. I had
just flipped from the scene in Easy Rider that features “The Weight”.
Jude and I kept it low key. Saturday she drove to Nanaimo to take a nursing test. I worked
on an expansion of the chicken coop. Sunday, after some creative dish stacking on her part,
we went to Granite Bay
at low tide to clean up the beach as part of Earth Day. Here’s our haul:
We weren’t sure if these boats qualified as debris, or if they just got semi-dry docked.
We were sure that this one was toast, but no way would it fit on the bed of the truck.
We decided to leave this chair. It was in good
condition except for its colouring.
