The Rose

The Rose

January 4, 2011

I wrote about our amazing evening rubbing shoulders with a lot of famous folks a couple of days ago.  Pictured is the rose Jack Calhoun, one of the Twin Brothers, gave me the night we were so very lucky to see him perform.  I'm thinking I could become a serious groupie to these entertainers!  Isn't it just gorgeous and oh it smelled just heavenly too :)

Garden Gnome
©2006-2011

Tickets to See Carrie Underwood

The Tickets

November 29, 2010

My husband won two free tickets to see Carrie Underwood perform at The Palace of Auburn Hills in Auburn Hills, Michigan on Novemeber 29!  [Update: postponed to December 22]  He was quite excited and so was I as it had been awhile since we have gone to a live performance.  The last one we went to was Jimmy Buffet when we were in Florida a couple of years ago.  The only downside to going to a live performance on a week night is the long commute that makes for a very long day.  Still being tired the following day would be well worth it!

Garden Gnome
©2006-2010

Elvis Presley - Viva Las Vegas

I've been an Elvis Presley fan since being knee high to a grasshopper.  Over the years we have collected his singles that we play on our old juke box and many of his albums.  Here is one of my favourite Elvis Presley songs.  Enjoy :)

Garden Gnome
©2006-2010

Family Events

Lighting the Night Sky
July 11, 2009

My gosh we had such a busy but relaxing weekend! Friday night we went to Sam's Club and out for dinner in the US. Saturday morning we were awakened by a horrendous thunderstorm that threatened to cancel the day's planned activities but it cleared up late morning and actually turned out to be a grand day spent in good company. Sunday we spent the day with friends at the swim hole so will be blogging about that later.

As you know I am Canadian and love to share any Canadian content with even a blog Canadian Perspective dedicated for this purpose but Canadian content sprinkles through onto this blog as well as my other blogs. Saturday's annual event was hosted by a family member. It always falls in July as close as possible to Canada Day. The number in attendance reaches around 150. This really is a wonderful event held on their picturistic, farmland property in southern Ontario. Local foods and talents are always a feature which is something I really appreciate. After dark everyone settles in for a gorgeous fireworks show that would out do many communities! Some of the fireworks are originals made specifically for the occasion. It is just a lovely event with a good time had by all!

This year's featured band was SUDS (Shed Union District Standards) featuring D'Arcy Sloan, Brad Fishleigh, Darryl Twigg and Danny Wright. The band hails from Chatham, Ontario. The video pictured was placed on YouTube by me with their consent. [As of yet I cannot get the video to upload because it is too large for Blogger but might eventually upload to YouTube. I will post the video as soon as I get it uploaded.] I think they are quite good. The video is not as good as it could be but considering I'm figuring out using the new camera it isn't all that bad. So many of the big name bands started out exactly this way, playing a small events.

Garden Gnome
©2006-2009