Book-It

Tonight, SNL was a repeat with Jon Hamm and Michael Bublé. I enjoyed that one. The commercial was Will Forte as Tarkie Fenzington, the Closet Organizer. They also had a sketch where he was at a bar talking to some guy who recognized Forte as the Closet Organizer Guy. But that's not important. What is important is that Will Forte was wearing a "Book-It" T-shirt in this sketch. Book-It is a program developed by Pizza Hut Restaurant to encourage and reward kids for reading.

Thanks, Will for showing your support for reading. In appreciation, everyone go out and get a book to give to a kid to read.

Baby Blue Jay

There have been so many blue jays around lately. I'm assuming that most of them are babies because they have been so vocal. If I understand bird-talk correctly, they are saying "Feed me. Feed me." This little guy was actually on the bird bath last year, so he is now an expert at all things Blue Jay. I've probably even seen him hanging around the bird bath this year and maybe even eating some peanuts during the winter.

Happy 4th of July

But then why am I posting on July 5th? Well, we were very busy yesterday and besides that, it rained here yesterday and the fireworks were postponed until today.

A few days ago we ate breakfast at Perkins. Typically they have a large American flag flying at their restaurants and the sky was such a nice clear blue that I took a few pictures. Plus it was very windy so I could get good photos of the flag showing all the stripes and nearly all of the stars.

I just spent a little time looking at Wikipedia's entry about the Flag of the United States. It is quite interesting. There is an animated section that shows how to fold the flag. There are pictures of all the different flags through the years. Did you know that at one time there were 15 stripes? I didn't know that.

Happy Canada Day

Today is Canada Day, so Happy Canada Day to everyone up in Canada and Canadians everywhere. Some years back we wanted to escape the crowds of July 4th for our vacation. Plus we wanted to go somewhere where the restaurants wouldn't be closed as they often are on July 4th. We should have done our homework. We were in Canada on July 1.

Canada Day has been called Canada's birthday. Everything was closed. Now we know better and so can you if you read a little bit here at Wikipedia about Canada Day.

I don't know if this photo shows the typical Canadian couple, but it was two people we saw in Montreal back in May of 2006 while we were visiting the Montreal Botanical Garden. The girl's hair was quite red, in fact, I'm willing to wager it wasn't actually her natural hair color. But it really looked nice on her and made for a good photo opportunity. Happy Canada Day to the two of them also.