Please read the following events of this very important day in history. Pay particular attention to the last event, it's the best one of them all.

November 11

Today's Canadian Headline...

1918
LEAST WE FORGET
Compiègne France - French Field Marshal Foch and the members of the German Armistice Commission sign a formal surrender to end World War I at 5 am in Marshal Foch's railway car in the Forest of Compiègne, to take effect at 11 am, as Sir Arthur Currie's Canadian troops chase the last Germans out of Mons, Belgium. Over 750,000 Canadians served in the four years of the Great War; 424,589 went overseas; 60,661 were killed. In all, over 10 million people died in the war, including 6 million civilians. In 1931, November 11 was renamed Remembrance Day and declared a legal holiday.

1813
Also On This Day...
Morrisburg Ontario - British Col. Joseph Morrison and Royal Navy Captain William Mulcaster defeat an American invasion force of over 7,000 led by General James Wilkinson at the Battle of Crysler's Farm. Wilkinson's flotilla left Sackett's Harbor in late October and landed on the Canadian side of the Long Sault rapids. With only 800 British regulars of the 49th and 89th Regiments, plus some Canadian militia and Indians, Morrison moves to attack 1,800 Americans of the 25th Infantry Regiment under Brown at Crysler's Farm 30 km west of Cornwall; at the same time, Captain William Mulcaster's gunboats fire shrapnel and grapeshot on General John Park Boyd's flotilla of 4,000 American troops trying to descend the rapids toward Montreal, which helps Morrison land his troops at Crysler's Farm. In the first skirmish, the Americans take 400 casualties to the British 200. For larger version of this map, click here. Wilkinson could have pressed on against Morrison, but when he gets a message that General Wade Hampton and his army of 4,200 were defeated at Châteauguay Oct. 26, he calls off the invasion, since Hampton was supposed to meet him downstream for the attack on Montreal. Hampton later resigned when Wilkinson blamed him for the failure of the campaign; Wilkinson was then relieved of his command.

1937
And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...
Stephen Lewis 1937-politician, journalist, diplomat, was born on this day at Ottawa, the son of CCF politician David Lewis. After teaching in Africa in the early 1960s, Lewis served as an organizer for the NDP, won the Scarborough West seat in the Ontario Legislature in 1963, and was elected leader in 1970. In 1972, he split with the left wing Waffle movement of his party, but three years later led the NDP to official opposition status. He resigned in 1977 after an electoral loss, to work as a broadcaster, lecturer and labour arbitrator, and in 1984 External Affairs Minister Joe Clark appointed him Canada's Ambassador to the United Nations. Here he is with federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent in the late 1970s.

Also Matthew Henry Cochrane 1823-1903 cattle breeder, businessman, was born on this day at Compton, Quebec, in 1823; died at Compton Aug. 12, 1903. Cochrane learned the leather and shoe business in Boston as a young man, then built a factory in Montreal in 1864; built up pedigreed Shorthorn cattle herd in the 1870s; 1881 brought a large herd from Montana to his grazing lease, the Cochrane Ranch, west of Calgary.

Also Violet Clara McNaughton 1879-1968 farmer, journalist, feminist, was born Violet Jackson on this day at Borden, England, in 1879; died at Saskatoon Feb. 03, 1968. McNaughton and her husband joined the Saskatchewan Grain Growers' Association in 1912; 1913 organized women's section, President from 1914 to 1917; 1915 helped found the Saskatchewan Equal Franchise League, which got the vote for women a year later; 1919 president of Interprovincial Council of Farm Women; 1921 helped formulate Progressive Party platform; 1925-50 edited the Mainly for Women page in The Western Producer.

Also Alice Girard 1907-nurse, first woman dean of the University of Montreal, was born on this day at Montreal in 1907. Girard was the first Canadian to serve as President of the International Council of Nurses.

Also Kathleen Shannon 1935-film director, producer, was born on this day at Vancouver in 1935. Shannon joined the National Film Board in 1956, and helped produce over 115 films; 1970 she participated in Challenge for Change production program; 1971 directed 'I Don't Think It's Meant for Us'; 1974-75 directed 'Working Mothers', a series of 11 films about women's work; 1974 executive producer of Studio D, the NFB production unit set up to examine the role of women in society; 1983 produced documentary Dream of a Free Country: A Message from Nicaraguan Women.

Also Gilbert Perreault 1951-NHL centre, was born on this day in 1951. Perreault was first draft choice of the Buffalo Sabres, and was selected first overall in the 1970 NHL draft; 1971 won the Calder trophy as the NHL's rookie-of-the-year; 1973 won the Lady Byng Trophy; 1975 led the Sabres to the Stanley Cup finals, but defeated in six games by the Flyers; 1976 and 1977 member of the NHL Second All-Star team; centre of 'French Connection' line with Rick Martin and René Robert; has career total of 512 goals and 814 assists, for 1326 points in 1,191 games, in his 17 seasons with the Sabres.

Also Gina Smith 1957-equestrian, was born on this day at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, in 1957. Smith joined the Saskatoon Pony Club in 1968; 1974 team member for Saskatchewan at the National Pony club rally in Montreal; 1979 National Dressage champion at the Medium level; 1982 received a scholarship to train in Germany with Johann Hinneman for seven weeks; 1988 member of the Canadian Dressage team that won a bronze medal at the Seoul Olympics.

Also Lloyd Langlois 1962-freestyle skier, member of the Quebec Air Force, was born on this day at Magog, Quebec, in 1962. A two-time Olympic medalist, with 57 World Cup medals, including 20 golds, Langlois was the first aerialist to complete the 1/2 rudy full and the quad-twisting triple somersault in international competition; 1985 Canadian champion, winner of the World Cup overall aerials; 1986 World Champion; 1988 bronze medal at Calgary Olympics; 1989 World Champion; 1989-90 retired to recover from a back injury, then to devote time to non-skiing activities and his music; 1992 bronze medal at Lillehammer Olympics; 1993 Canadian champion, winner of the World Cup overall aerials; 1994-95 Canadian champion; retired due to injuries at age 36.

In Other Events...

1997
Montreal Quebec - Expo Pedro Martinez wins National League Cy Young Award over Greg Maddux and Denny Neagle.

1997
Hull Quebec - Quebec Gatineau Railway takes over operation of former CP Lachute subdivision between Outremont and Hull; moves traffic to Smiths Falls for the last time; end of Canadian Pacific presence in Ottawa; first line to enter Bytown in 1854.

1987
Quebec Quebec - Guy Chevrette becomes interim leader of the Parti Québécois on resignation of Pierre-Marc Johnson.

1982
Rome Italy - Pope John Paul II announces visit to Canada in fall of 1984; first papal visit to Canada.

1982
Cape Canaveral, Florida - US space shuttle Columbia blasts off from the Kennedy Space Center, carrying Canada's Anik C comsat into orbit; the first commercial flight of the Shuttle.

1980
Toronto Ontario - A. Y. Jackson's painting Algoma Lake sells for $210,000, a new record for a Canadian work of art; Group of Seven member.

1975
Montreal Quebec - Ottawa and Quebec sign James Bay convention with New Quebec Cree.

1974
New York City - Winnipeg's Bachman-Turner Overdrive have a Billboard #1 hit with 'You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet/Free Wheelin'.'

1967
St. John's, Newfoundland - Clinton Shaw arrives from Victoria BC, setting the world's distance record for roller skating, a trip of 7,885 km, started April 1.

1963
Detroit Michigan - Red Wing Gordie Howe ties Rocket Richard's lifetime 544 NHL goal record.

1962
Stratford Ontario - Liberal leader Jean Lesage and UN leader Daniel Johnson Sr. hold a provincial election debate televised on Radio-Canada.

1951
Stratford Ontario - Tom Patterson 1920- approaches city council to start summer Shakespearean Festival; with Tyrone Guthrie 1900-1971.

1950
London Ontario - Hank Snow's single 'I'm Moving On' hits #1 on the country music charts; born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, and a star on CBC, Snow moved to Nashville five years earlier to sing at the Grand Ole Opry.

1946
London Ontario - Western wins the Yates Cup with a 6-0 record, following a 47-8 win over Queen's.

1945
Kingston Ontario - Western wins its first Yates Cup football championship under John Metras, beating Queen's 17-2 at Kingston.

1942
Ottawa Ontario - Third Victory Loan campaign launched.

1939
Kingston Ontario - Western finishes the football season 6-0, the only undefeated Ontario university team, beating Queen's 13-8 and scoring 12 points in the final 15 minutes of the game; on returning from Kingston,

Novemeber 11, -An Angel was Born. This Angel would later marry the not-worthy, Mike Sanderson and move to California to outshine all the stars in Hollywood. This is the most important date in Mike's history, the day his Angel was born.

I love you more than you know Carmen. I loved you the minute I laid eyes on you, and loved you more the day you said I do. I praise God for you.....

Hot, Hot, Hot !!!

Hi ya's


My goodness gracious it has been a very hot couple of months around here.
We decided to spend some of our days & weekends in places where there was good air conditioning.


On one of the weekends we went to the Imax theatre at the Irvine Spectrum in Irvine & saw the new movie Superman in 3D. It was really good. We used 3D glasses of course. We had to put our glasses on & off through- out the movie. There was about 20min. of 3D action. But I found that alot of the movie had 3D special affects without our glasses. The super huge screen was really cool. It sounds like there could be another Superman movie in the future at least I hope so. I saw the original Superman in theatres when I was a kid. It was my very first movie in a theatre, thanks to a very special adult(Jane Richer) who took me there. Anywho afterwards we went to Red Lobster for din din. We both had shrimp & steak. Yummy Yummy & this time I didn't drop or break anything.


Yestaurday we went & saw Pirates of the Caribbean at the AMC 30 at the Block in Orange.

I liked this movie as well. I found it very humerous. I can't wait for the third one to come out. I heard its almost completed. After the movie we took a drive along the PCH around Newport & Huntington Beach. It was absolutely gorgeous. I love those places.

We especially love to take our dog to Dog Beach which is located on a section of the Huntington Beach area.


This upcoming weekend we will be in Southern Oregon visiting with relatives for a family reunion. I'll be taking pictures & video of that so I can stick it on here.

Carmyy

Klutzy Carmyy

Well I have decided that I'm definitely the most klutziest person around.
This evening I was getting kinda hungry for a light snack so I thought I'd see what was in the fridge. I found some left over spagetti & meatballs & figured yum yum my tum tum will be happy happy.

So I got the food out of the fridge & set it on the counter & took the lid off & was about to dig in when all of a sudden out of nowhere my yum yum food went & crash landed all over the floor.
So I thought how will I clean this up..... "Peachy" I cry out "come help"......Well of course being the food hound(refer to previous blog) she came bounding in & eat it all making her tum tum very happy happy with my yum yum food. Anywho I thought I'd take some pic's of this momentous occasion.


Anywho something like this is a regular occurance for me.
I drink out of plastic cups & eat out of plastic bowls, because I keep dropping the other kind & they break. I buy a nice set of 4 or 6 & end up with 3 or 5 in no time flat.
I also prefer carpet in every room so incase I do drop something not plastic there's a chance it won't break. Our living room carpet of course is a complete mess as I keep dropping my plastic cup of water all the time as well as various types of food.
I need to get a dark carpet so no one sees it. Heee heee believe it or not I've even killed plastic stuff... by putting it on a hot stove & forgetting about it.....

I also like hurting myself, I used to have a saying that if I didn't trip or fall at least once a day then I was having a bad day.
I've fallen down ravines, gotten run over twice by a bicyclest, fallen on my knees on hard cement, sprained my finger while swimming (how does one do that, well who knows, but I did).
Walked into trees, poles, furniture, doors, windows & people. I broke a couple of toes last year walking into my dresser & then tripping over the dog, incidentally the dog was limping for a couple of days as well. I've sprained my ankle jumping on a trampoline, go figure!!!
Just recently I got too close to a candle burning & some of my hair & ear got burnt when some flames erupted onto my head, that was pretty scary & I ran screaming trying to get it out, Mike didn't know what was happening until he smelled the burning smell. I had to light some smelling candles to get the burnt smell out & course I was just fine, but my head smelled burnt & my ear was slightly burned but it healed up in a couple of days. Also lost abit of hair in the process but thats ok I have a ton of it anyway.

Anywho I've done so many hazardous things, I'm amazed I'm still in one piece. I think I should of been a stuntmen!!!!

The Klutz(aka Carmyy)

Miss Peachy

Well yestaurday we finally got the phone line fixed for the upteenth time(refer to previous blog), hopefully it will last for awhile. Today Miss Peachy got herself a haircut & bath pampering at Petsmart(local petstore). She looked oh so cute with 2 yellow ribbons that they stuck in her fur.
So I thought I would take some pictures. However Miss Peachy doesn't like the camera too much making it very hard to take a half decent picture of her. She also doesn't like ribbons stuck in her fur.
So anywho after I managed to take 1 picture, she managed to get one of the ribbons out of her hair. The one here to the left was taken just after returning home. She's panting like crazy because of the heat wave were having here at the moment. She also has the 2 ribbons.

Next one just a few seconds later she was thirsty & thus took a drink of water plus some food as she is a food hound & will basically eat just about anything at anytime. So I had to wait. Here she was just settling down from chowing down & thus was licking her chops.
Notice 1 ribbon.

The next ones I tried to get her to look at me. I managed to get 1.
















Yipee finally.

The phone company (SBC) blues

We've been experiencing major phone problems for over a year now, and it has returned with a vengance. Our wonderful provider, SBC, keeps telling us that they have the problem fixed, but every time they send one of their "trained" technicians our lines go bad again within a few months. So, here we sit today waiting for another service call (this is the 4th time). Our wonderful provider, SBC, has informed us that the repairman will be here between 8 in the morning, and 6 in the evening. I wonder what they would say if we said we would send them our bill between the first and second week of the month? Since we only have the use of our phone for about 3 weeks out of the month, what would happen if we decided to pay them only for the time we had the the use of the phone? The problem is, we have nobody to protest to because they have a monopoly on our phones. What a great way to spend the weekend....:)

OK...OK....I'm over complaining...hahaha. It could be worse I guess...Thanks for listening to us spout off.....

Love ya all,

Mike and Carmyy

Happy Birthday!!! Hunny Bunny

My Sweet Adorable Guy is 44 today!!!





Me Wuv You Very Muchness!!!!
Kissy Kissy xoxoxo

We spent today in the pits!

One of the great things about living here in Southern California is that there is just so much to do on any given day, Today we decided that we would go to the world famous La Brea Tar Pits. It's an incredible place with some of the most perfectly preserved fossils around. If you like archeology, you'll love this place.

The pits are called tar pits because long ago, there were these huge pools of tar where Los Angeles is now. The Wooly Mamoths (sp) and Sarber Toothed Tigers would be walking along and all of a sudden get caught in the tar and would slowly die from struggling and starvation. So after all these years, there are now thousands of fossils perfectly preserved in the tar which is now basically asphalt. It's really an amazing sight, and if you're ever down here, you have to see it. Go to http://www.tarpits.org/ to see what it's all about.

Warning though; IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE SMELL OF HOT TAR OR ASPHALT, YOU WON'T LIKE THIS PLACE. When they call it the tar pits, they meant it. It was really kind of cool though. You'd be walking along these beautiful palm tree lined pathways, and all of a sudden you would see a fenced off area. Behind the fence, you'd see this tar bubbling out of the ground like the Beverly Hillbillies oil gyser. This is really a great place with a great museaum and pathways to walk.

Check out the pics from our trip and let us know what you think.



Inside pit 91 which started in 1969.
It is the longest on-going urban paleontological excavation site in the world!
They excavate durring the summer months of July unil September

Ok here's a video, I'm still learning how to use our camcorder & all its nifty features, so its not the greatest quality.