True North Strong And Free

You know when you're so tired you could fall asleep on the spot, and suddenly realize that this is Canada Day, and you never got (or even thought to, shamefaced me XD) around to writing a properly patriotic post for the occasion?? No? Just me, then, I guess😆 Because that's preeeeecisely what happened this morning. And I then went on to make meals and tidy up the house, and got only a teeny wee scrap of a post written even after I DID realize this fact XD Gulp and ahem. (This marks the second year in my two year blogging career that I've done this, too, if memory serves... Aren't I accomplished??)

This, of course,  does not mean I love my country any less. Just so you know, Canada ;) Forgive me if I do not attain to any great level of eloquence, it is merely the sleepies taking over, and no reflection of my patriotism, I promise XD

After all, it has been home to the Not-Starrs for the past 150 years, has the Great White North. It's taken us in as emigrants, sheltered us, stormed at us fiercely, and even flooded but good a cabin or two whilst my great-greats were settling into a new frontier.... And the love of the wooded places that was firmly planted in those particular pioneers along the way has firm hold of us to this very day. Yes, inflation makes us goggle, and Beaver Bucks are not exactly at their very best, but it's CANADA, people. And there's an awful lot to love ;) Come visit, and you'll see.... (It's said that if you drink of the water of the Peace River, you'll always come back to it.... So mind you be careful what you drink, or we may just keep you😜😄)

Also I am too done in to make any more of a go of this, so it has no alternative but to rough it just a tad this time around, I guess XD

Happy 158th birthday, Canada.... I am very glad to live in you, even if I have not many words to say it in.

Exhaustedly, 

Emi