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The name of my blog is the nick name that my cousin used to call me when we were young. He is the example of courage, optimism, perseverance, hope, and good disposition. He influenced my life and taught me so many things!
Friday, December 21, 2012
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Reflections
Dear Blog,
I haven't been very good at updating you.
Sometimes real life takes precedence over other priorities.
With the year 2012 coming soon to a close...
I would like to wish you all Peace, Love and Friendship and for the New Year to be kind and healthy for everyone!!!
I haven't been very good at updating you.
Sometimes real life takes precedence over other priorities.
With the year 2012 coming soon to a close...
I would like to wish you all Peace, Love and Friendship and for the New Year to be kind and healthy for everyone!!!
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Sunday, November 25, 2012
A walk at Pink Lake, Gatineau
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| Photo:Ziniania (The look out ) |
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| Photo: Ziniania (returning towards the city) More information for Pink Lake: http://www.canadascapital.gc.ca/places-to-visit/gatineau-park/pink-lake |
Friday, November 23, 2012
Friday morning sky
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IF
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling
Sunday, November 11, 2012
The beaver pond in November
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Sunday, October 21, 2012
Happy Sunday with lovely music
Our Canadian singer Alanis Morissette (sound track "I remain" from the movie Prince of Persia )
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Chocolate chip muffins
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Chocolate chip muffins
1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup white sugar
3 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1 cup milk
1/3 cup melted butter
1 egg
1 cup chocolate chips.
Mix dry ingredients and add chocolate chips.
Combine egg, milk and butter and stir into flour mixture. Do not beat.
Bake at 375°for 20 minutes.
Perfect with a cuppa of tea or coffee!
Recipe taken from the book Muffin Mania by Cathy Prange and Joan Pauli.
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Picturesque Manotick Village
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| Watson's Mill on the Rideau River |
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| Front of the Mill |
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| Rideau River |
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| Farmer's market |
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| War Memorial |
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| Simple Pleasures |
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| General Motors vintage car |
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| General Motors vintage car,side view |
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| Geese flying |
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