SS. ROTTERDAM approaches the PANAMA CANAL (aka THE DITCH) - bridge of the americas - about 7 a.m. dec 15 , 1995 on its way to the GATUN LOCKS - atlantic ocean side .
I should have waited another 1/10000 second ...
... and then "the trick" would have been perfect :wink:
Or two more seconds when the ball comes down, that would be nice too..
Quote:Croquemitaine
An evil sprite or monster, used by French nurses and parents to frighten their children into good behaviour.
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seems it had no effect on walter :wink:
hamburger wrote:
seems it had no effect on walter :wink:
Well, when you as an elder statesman say so ...
Speakig about children and elder: there's ben a town fest in my native town, with a couple of old style caroussels ...
My favourite always has been this, but with a 'roof', and rolling backwards [not to talk about the jumping on and of to impress the girls] ... :wink:
we had our annual
CHILIFEST and CLASSIC CAR SHOW on the waterfront yesterday (you can watch a 360 degree panorama) .
i passed up the opportunity
of tasting 30 (!) different chilis - but it was fun the watch the activities .
hbg
EASTERN LAKE ONTARIO - FALL HAS ARRIVED IN OUR GARDEN
The famer better had look someone at his navigation system :wink:
on monday we took a short half-hour drive to the LOYALIST LANDING SITE AND BURIAL GROUND just west of here .
it's located on the ADOLPHUSTOWN REACH - a side-arm of lake ontario .
some of the LOYALISTS coming from new york state landed here in 1784 and settled in the area on crown land .
btw many of the loyalists were former hessian soldiers .
until a few years ago there were still individual graves and tombstones .
since the tombstones - made mostly from local limestone - started to disintegrate , they have now been set in a wall of rememberance .
Well that's interesting.
Thanks, hbg.
hi , mctag :
the
UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS - quite a few of whom were former hessian soldiers - played a large role in the early settlement of upper canada .
to this day they are allowed to put "U.E." behind their family names !
about an hour to the west of here - in prince edward county on lake ontario - many german family names can be found at the farmgates : such as huffnagel , hagermann - we buy "heritage" potatoes at their farm - and others .
they were at one time described as german "mercenaries" in the U.S. - but many americans come here happily for the good fishing now :wink: .
take care !
hbg
hamburger & mctag,
There is a noted historical work titled
The German Dimension of American History. It can be found in some public libraries.
jw :
there is a wealth of information available on the UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS .
our local library and also the library at QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY in kingston has accumulated much historical material .
additionally , the LOYALIST RESEARCH CENTRE AND MUSEUM in ADOLPHUSTOWN has its own library and collection of documents .
official photograph :
OBELISK IN ADOLPHUSTOWN CEMETERY
cleo and bailey do not quite seem to appreciate the significance of the obelisk , but they did enjoy running through the park !
source :
LOYALISTS OF ADOLPHUSTOWN
hamburger wrote:hi , mctag :
the
UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS - quite a few of whom were former hessian soldiers - played a large role in the early settlement of upper canada .
to this day they are allowed to put "U.E." behind their family names !
about an hour to the west of here - in prince edward county on lake ontario - many german family names can be found at the farmgates : such as huffnagel , hagermann - we buy "heritage" potatoes at their farm - and others .
they were at one time described as german "mercenaries" in the U.S. - but many americans come here happily for the good fishing now :wink: .
take care !
hbg
Thanks for this information. I have been reading "Scots in the USA" and a lot of my countrymen, too, came up into Canada from NY state and elsewhere in New England at the time of the American Revolution.
My sister-in-law lives in Ottawa and we have been at Upper Canada Village among other places there.
Well, that canal water doesn't look very polluted. Does it reek? I used to read stories about how polluted their canals were. Have the veneziani been cleaning up their canals?
The canal water seems quite clean, and is not smelly, but you sometimes get the whiff of drains as you wander around the alleyways.
Not too surprising when you consider that all of the drains are below water level.
They must have some sophisticated methods to keep it all flowing.
This is what I have been working on for the past few weeks, there are two pools and a hot tub. One pool is fairly simple, it's a lap/competition pool, they built it straight...they have to, in case a state or world record is broken, to avoid the embarrassment of the pool being a foot short, or as I have found on the other pool...2-3 feet off of spec...but the other pool is just a leisure pool, so it's not critical...sort of.
I do not do the actual structure, though I wish I had been there while they were doing the forming and shooting on the gunite...oy. I've had to rebuild many things on the leisure pool, and the hot tub is about 90% redone. I am the finisher, I do the ceramic, and set the depth markers...might do some plastering if they need me to....but I'm not supposed to build the pools...well I guess I do now.
As you can see in the picture, I laid a few feet of tile...Monday or maybe Tuesday, I don't remember anymore, because it's been a very long week. The day I put that up, I was stopped...the tile is quite loud...and the college rejected it....I spent the rest of the week just hanging out waiting for a decision.
