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I've got a playlist of some of The Beatles greatest hits playing on YouTube...oh yeah!🎵💃
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There are two Eagles hatching and bringing up their young on a live feed.
Was it Big Bear?
On the news.
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What day is it? asked Pooh. 🐻

It is today. Squeaked Piglet. 🐷

My favorite day. Said Pooh. 🧸️
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My other favorite movie: "You've Got Mail".
And the sound the internet makes when it was connecting to e-mail-way back when...
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Northern Lights are beautiful. We see them here at the lake 4 or 5 times a year. Usually in late July or August.
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Becky: What is the lake's name?
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I'm dancing to a few of my favourite songs, ones whose tempo isn't quite right for my workouts. Ike and Tina, Proud Mary... rollin' 😁
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Very soon, I may need to reinstate some more chocolate in my life, just to cope with the everyday of it all.

Chocolate is my very favorite thing.
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Happy Birthday Canada!
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Thank you Send!
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Thank you, Send! Wishing everyone a very Happy Canada Day! Looking forward to some sunshine.:-)
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Thanks, Send . A good day to celebrate. 🍁🍁🍁
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A church in my town has a carillon and I got to hear God Save the Queen (well, it is an Anglican church) followed by Oh Canada on my walk this morning.
I kinda wonder how many people younger than I am know the words to God Save the Queen, or even recognize the tune 🤔
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Chocolates and prosecco and binging on Siendfield, the best show ever IMO, followed by Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Serenity Now! As Frank Castanza said!
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CWillie,
Enjoy your celebration! What is more enjoyable than a walk passing a church with patriotic music? 🇨🇦 Happy Canada Day!

The tune of "God Save The Queen" is also the National Anthem, Royal Anthem, and Imperial Anthem of 15 countries, kingdoms, empires, and federations.

Here in the U.S.A. we sing : "My Country Tis of Thee": 🇺🇸
to the same tune.
1831 - 1931
written by Samuel Francis Smith

My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From ev'ry mountainside
Let freedom ring!

My native country, thee,
Land of the noble free,
Thy name I love;
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills;
My heart with rapture thrills,
Like that above.

Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees
Sweet freedom's song;
Let mortal tongues awake;
Let all that breathe partake;
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.

Our fathers' God to Thee,
Author of liberty,
To Thee we sing.
Long may our land be bright,
With freedom's holy light,
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God our King.


source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/miscellaneouslyrics/patrioticsongs
lyrics/mycountrytisoftheelyrics.html
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No celebrating going on here Send.
After all the whining about pandemic restrictions for the last 2 years when pretty much everything is lifted we get nothing but free swimming at the pool today and fireworks at 10:00 (yeah no, that's past my bedtime).
To paraphrase someone on the town's Facebook page "wow, they went all out" 🙄
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That explains it! Celebrations coast to coast in Canada, from Vancouver to Ontario. It was said (by a Canadian), that Canadians celebrate patriotism in their hearts, not on their sleeves? (Not rowdy like the U.S.A.?).

At midnight 🕛 on Friday in the U.S.A., there will be enough celebrations in the U.S.A. to be heard up in Canada way into the 4th of July.

We will take over from here, no problem! 🥳️ 🥳️ 🇨🇦 🥳️ 🇺🇸 🍉 💫 💥

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🎉 🎆 🎇 🎈

🔔 🔔 🔔 🔔 🔔 🔔 🔔 🔔 🔔 🔔 🔔 🔔 🔔 🔔

🎆 🎆 🎆 🎆 🎆 🎆 🎆 🎆 🎆 🎆 🎆 🎆 🎇 🎇 🎇 🎇 🎇

🕛 🎇

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Happy Canada Day!

All love and respect to my Canadian friends. 💞💖💞

Here, you can help the younger Canadians celebrate in song.

God save our gracious Queen!
Long live our noble Queen!
God save the Queen!
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us,
God save the Queen.
Thy choicest gifts in store
On her be pleased to pour,
Long may she reign.
May she defend our laws,
And ever give us cause,
To sing with heart and voice,
God save the Queen.

You are a blessed people!
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Canada Day, Up Canada Way

It's Canada Day up Canada way on the first day of July.
And we're shoutin' "hooray" up Canada way, when the maple leaf flies high.
When the silver jets from east to west go streaming through our sky.
We'll be shoutin' "hooray" up Canada way when the great parade goes by.

O Canada, standing tall together!
We raise our hands and hail our flag;
The maple leaf forever!

It's Canada Day up Canada way, on the coast of Labrador.
And we're shoutin' "hooray" up Canada way on the wide Pacific shore.
People everywhere have a song to share on Canada's holiday.
From Pelee Island in the sunny south to the North Pole far away.

O Canada, standing tall together!
We raise our hands and hail our flag;
The maple leaf forever!

It's Canada Day up Canada way, when the long cold winter's done.
And we're shoutin' "hooray" up Canada way for the great days yet to come.
Where maple trees grow maple leaves, when the Northern sun is high.
We're Canadians and we're born again on the first day of July.

O Canada, standing tall together!
We raise our hands and hail our flag;
The maple leaf forever!

It's Canada Day up Canada way, from the lakes to the prairies wide.
And we're shoutin' "hooray" up Canada way on the St. Lawrence river side.
People everywhere have a song to share on Canada's holiday.
From Pelee Island in the sunny south to the North Pole far away.

O Canada, standing tall together!
We raise our hands and hail our flag;
The maple leaf forever!
We raise our hands and hail our flag;
The maple leaf forever!


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Writer(s): Tom Charles Connors (Stompin' Tom)
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Alice Springs is in the Northern Territory of Australia, and 1st July is Territory Day. The only day fireworks are sold and allowed to go off (apart from the public shows). That’s because of the bushfire risks they pose, as well as the long history of injuries. For me it’s 7.30am right now on Saturday 2nd July. I think for the party goers over the road, it’s ‘hang-over day’.
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Margaret,
Happy Territory Day! 🇦🇺

Fireworks in So. California are illegal unless performed by professionals, and it will be sad when a fire is started by those not following the local laws. Hoping Australia is safe from further ravages of fires. I am content with the patriotic songs.

Of historical interest, God Save The Queen was the National Anthem until 1984 in Australia. (finding similarities in the tunes we sing/sang/song.)
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Where is Jeanne Gibbs when you need her?
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Hear hear, Send - but why now especially?
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CM,
Remembering her hobby as the "cake lady", beautiful cakes.

I remember a lot of the "old-time" members of the forum.

Sentimental holidays bring it out of me.
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That cake looks impressive Send but I don't think I'd want to eat any..... all that food colour😲 😨


How about one with white cake and icing, decorated with strawberries and blueberries instead?
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We're not going to eat it Cwillie! Instead, we are going out to get a USA flag to display this weekend. Unless Instacart can deliver an American flag.

Strawberries and blueberries are excellent on a cake. The blueberries are just the right natural color. I never could eat FD&C Red food coloring. 🇺🇸

Once we eat our blueberries, we will have some more coffee with it. 🍰
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How's this unleavened bread, CWillie?

Instacart delivered our flag too!
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That looks like a nice rustic loaf of LEAVENED bread Send.
Did they get the flag wrong too?
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Send: A friend who homeschools AND has six children, one of whom was a disabled child, who passed away makes VERY creative cakes.
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No, I think they got the flag right, lol.

The unleavened bread was made in the USA, so it is inflated.
Serves more people at communion.

Twenty years later after baking communion bread for my church, and I still cannot get it right. It was hard as a rock, shaped like a small football, and the pastor could not break it open. (I did warn him, and had a substitute on hand.)
But he was mad.
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Llama,
It was the disabled child that passed away?
So very sorry for your loss. Condolences to the family of your friend.
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