A SIGN IN A SHOE REPAIR STORE IN VANCOUVER READS:
We will heel you
We will save your sole
We will even dye for you.
A SIGN ON A BLINDS AND CURTAIN TRUCK:
Blind man driving.
SIGN OVER A GYNECOLOGIST’s OFFICE
Dr. Jones, at your cervix.
IN A PODIATRIST’s OFFICE
Time wounds all heels.
ON A SEPTIC TANK TRUCK
Yesterday's Meals on Wheels
AT AN OPTOMETRIST’S OFFICE
If you don't see what you're looking for,
You've come to the right place.
ON A PLUMBER’S TRUCK
We repair what your husband fixed.
ON ANOTHER PLUMBERS TRUCK
Don't sleep with a drip. Call your plumber.
AT A TIRE SHOP IN MILLWAUKEE
Invite us to your next blowout.
ON AN ELECTRICIAN’S TRUCK
Let us remove your shorts.
IN A NON SMOKING AREA
If we see smoke, we will assume you are on fire and
will take appropriate action."
ON A MATERNITY ROOM DOOR
Push. Push. Push."
AT A CAR DEALERSHIP
The best way to get back on your feet - miss a car payment.
OUTSIDE A MUFFLER SHOP
No
appointment necessary. We hear you coming.
IN A VETERINARIAN’S WAITING ROOM
Be back in 5 minutes. Sit! Stay!
AT THE ELECTRIC COMPANY
We would be
delighted if you send in your payment on time
However, if you don't, YOU will be de-lighted.
IN A RESTAURANT WINDOW
Don't stand
there and be hungry; come on in and get fed up.
IN THE FRONT YARD OF A FUNERAL HOME
Drive carefully. We'll wait.
ATB A PROPANE FILLING STATION
Thank Heaven for little grills.
IN A CHICAGO RADIATOR SHOP
Best place
in town to take a leak.
SIGN ON THE BACK OF ANOTHER SEPTIC TANK TRUCK
Caution - This Truck is full of Political Promises.
They're Back! Those wonderful Church Bulletins! Thank God for the church ladies with typewriters. These sentences actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced at church services:
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The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals.
Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be recycled.
Proceeds will be used to cripple children.
The sermon this morning:
“Jesus Walks on the Water.”
The sermon tonight: ‘
“Searching for Jesus.”
Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things
not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands.
Don't let worry kill you off - let the Church help.
For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery
downstairs.
Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So
ends a friendship that began in their school days.
At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be 'What Is Hell?' Come
early and listen to our choir practice.
Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new
members and to the deterioration of some older ones.
Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you
want remembered.
The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind.
They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.
Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM. Please use the back
door.
Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use
large double door at the side.
Sometimes I wonder why I read Facebook. I've read a lot of hate and that is disturbing. Then I saw these great posts.
In 1975, I started working for Pacific Western Airlines. My boss was Don Johnson. Don and I were around the same age, he was married to Marg and had a daughter, Jennifer the same age as Cheryl. Marg had two more sons after the birth of her daughter. He moved to Calgary when they relocated the Head Office. Don passed away from cancer a few years ago but his wife, Marg and I are still friends. I read on Facebook she was going to the UK again. One son, Erik lives and works in London and she visits the UK often. Her other son, Ian who lives in Calgary accompanied her on this trip.
Marg was born in Scotland and went back to the place she was born. Her life story is shown below from the town she lived in. On Thursday she heard the sad news of the death of the queen. Marg is a Monarchist also and her son Erik, was honored to be invited to a Royal Garden Party just before COVID. I love reading her and Ian's posts and following her travels. Ian posted the first one on Sunday and Marg posted the second Monday:
Well a lot of fun that was at the Bowhill Highland Games in Marg’s birthplace and childhood home of Bowhill, Fife, Scotland. These were just the 2nd Highland Games in the very… and I mean very… tiny village of Bowhill in over 70 years. We were thrilled to be honoured with a spot in the parade down the same streets Marg ran down as a child, and sponsored a gift for every primary dancer, the class winners trophy’s, and a surprising 4 way tie to the top premier. What’s the best way for 4 winners to split a £250 gift certificate - simple, we’ll just do £250 for each of them! It was a fun day of dancing and other events at the games, a great return home for Marg and a chance to give back to the community Marg will forever consider her home. Thank you Bowhill!
That is a wrap Scotland. And what a wrap! Went to Edinburgh with intent to watch the Queens procession up the Royal Mile only to be told it was closed to any more as it was full. Learned that if we skirted the side of the Inner city we could get in line for a wristband into St. Giles Cathedral to pay our respects. After quite a hike we were successful and started the que at 3.pm. We met and got to know a lot of folks young and old around us in a very jovial atmosphere. We wound our way through the city and made our way there 5 1/2 hours later. Sore feet were quickly forgotten as we entered the cathedral. The fragrance from the abundance of flowers was breathtaking. We were allowed to move at your own pace and take the time you needed to pay your respects. Never in my lifetime will I ever experience anything like it. It was beautiful.
If it weren't for Stanley Park, Queen Elizabeth Park would probably be the crown jewel of Vancouver's parks. I only knew #5 of the list below.
Located nearly dead centre in the city, the 130-acre area has been a notable landmark longer than it has been a park. Before being covered in trees, it was a major quarry for the region, with stone being used for roads in places like Gastown around the turn of the century.
In the 1930s new ideas were floated for the land after the quarries went into disuse, and the plan of turning it into a huge park came forward.
And here are some things you might not have known about it.
While it'd be easy to assume the long-reigning monarch was the source of the name, it wasn't. In fact, there have been a couple of Queen Elizabeths (that's why Queen Elizabeth II is referred to as the second). However, the park isn't named after Queen Elizabeth I.
Instead, it's named after Queen Elizabeth II's mother, Queen Elizabeth. Married to King George VI, she was officially raised to the title of Queen consort, or Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
When the royal couple came to Vancouver in 1939 the park was in the midst of its transformation from industrial site to park and it was dedicated to the visiting queen.
While it's not named after her, Queen Elizabeth II did visit the park. In 1951, while she was still a princess, she toured it, saw a dance, and planted an oak tree.
That oak tree is still there, with a plaque underneath it near the Duck Pond.
Speaking of trees, Queen Elizabeth Park has a lot of them. While it's not forested like Stanley Park, it has its own special woody, feature: Canada's first civic arboretum.
With hundreds of trees, the curated selection of trees numbers around 1,500 with examples of all sorts of species. Most are local to some extent, like Western redcedar or Douglas firs, there are lots of more exotic types. Some are common around town, like Japanese cherry trees, and European beeches.
There are also gingko trees, Persian silk trees, and Japanese katsura.
Back when Vancouver was founded Little Mountain, the hill that Queen Elizabeth Park is built on, was the highest point in the area.
And it's still the highest point in the city...sort of. Sources give different heights for the summit, with some saying it's as high as 500 feet, or about 151 meters. The city's own elevation map lists it as over 124 meters but not more than 126 meters, or about 410 feet.
In either case, the Shangri-La skyscraper in the city's center stands over 200 meters tall, or 659 feet. That's not including the fact it's somewhere around 40 meters above sea level at ground level. There are actually at least four buildings that stand higher than the elevation of Little Mountain, even with the Bloedel Conservatory's dome.
On top of that, Little Mountain's top may have been raised a bit back in the day, when a reservoir was built on top for water pressure. And there's a chance it was higher before that, but the quarry may have lowered it.
By the way, that reservoir is totally still there. If you didn't see it the last time you visited the park, it might be because you were walking on it.
Metro Vancouver's largest in-system reservoir is sitting below the parking lot at the top of the park.
I saw something I'd only ever seen on a tv show. I saw a picture of two firetrucks and a bunch of Firefighters on the overpass. Ladders...
