Last night we were watching TV when something caught my eye outside in the garden. It was a deer. This is slightly unusual as we don’t get many deer around during the summer and even less during daylight. It turned out to be a young stag which is more unusual still. We have only ever had one stag in the garden, usually we get does with young. This one is obviously very young and just starting to get his antlers.
Lets hope we see him again.
It has been very hot this week with temps in the high 20′sC. Today is going to be 28C with humidex putting it up to the low 30′s – toasty! Hopefully we can get some more geocaching done soon. We haven’t been able to recently because of all the rain.
On Friday night I took part in the Relay for Life in Belleville for the Canadian Cancer Society. I arrived about 5:15 pm Friday evening and found our group. We had two RV’s set up, so plenty of room to store all our stuff. Everyone bought along food and drink items so we also had a pretty good picnic. We had two teams taking part, so 20 in all. Not everyone was able to make it and some came at different times and stayed for different durations. I managed to stay all night, without falling asleep which in itself was a major miracle. The opening ceremony saw a young woman sing the national anthem and a plane from Trenton airbase doing a flyby really low over the crowd – brilliant. It was a great night and there were many memorable moments including the Support our Troops section which saw everyone dressed in red and white, waving flags etc. For those there in our team, I have two words – Soldier Boy!
Relay for Life - Support Our Troops
That would be me!
There was also a rainbow section when everyone displayed as many colours as possible to depict the various type of cancer i.e. pink for breast cancer. Very colorful and lots of balloons were let off in lots of colours. There were bands playing, DJ’s playing songs and not a moment went by when music was not in the air. If we weren’t walking around the track we were dancing or doing the Zooma – a new craze hitting the gyms. At 11:30 pm all the luminaries were lit in honor of people who have survived or currently suffering from cancer. There were also many luminaries for those who have lost the battle. A very moving moment to the backdrop of Amazing Grace played on the bagpipes. Fabulous.
Some of the many luminaries
Our luminaries
One of the funniest moments was the lip-sinking competition. Many teams entered as did we and we chose to sing the song One Eyed, One Horned, Flying Purple People Eater. This was due to the fact our team’s colour was purple. What we didn’t realize was that the other teams obviously took the event very seriously and have rehearsed for weeks, possibly months. We, on the other hand had spend ten minutes looking through the words. Whilst we were waiting for our turn on stage we managed to put together a short dance routine for our chorus, however when we got on stage the DJ played a different version of the song which did not include as many choruses, so we did not do as well as we hoped. But we had fun trying! What we did manage to do is get one of the husbands (Steve) to dress up as a purple people eater. Here is the result – quite fabulous I think you will agree. Thanks for being such a great sport Steve.
By the end of the night (7 am Sat), only a few of us were left standing (staggering) but it was truly worth it. Our team raised over $5,000 and in total the event raised over $380,000 which is terrific, especially in light of today’s economic climate. Well done to all those who took part, pledged etc. Fabulous night had by all.
I got home around 7:30 am on Saturday morning and slept for four hours before continuing on with the day.
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