Friday, November 11th

  Remembrance day in Canada, Veterans Day in the US of A. 

  A nice parade, much larger than I expected.  Many veterans wear caps that identify them as veterans, often telling where they served; either branch of their service [i.e.: army, navy, airforce, etc.] or campaign [WWII, Korea, Vietnam, etc.].  The people in the parade, especially kids like the boy scouts frequently came over to shake their hand and thank them for their service.  We stood by Jim & Beth and he must of had his hand shaken a 100 times.  Two little girls beside us held their hands over their hearts the whole time.  There were lots of:  horses, old cars, hot rods, motorcycles, military vehicles & personnel, etc.  By shortly after 11:00 the parade was over.  There was not ceremony at a 11:00 AM nor any moment of silence.  The only poppies were the ones handed out by the vets in the parade, well other than the ones Marg & I wore that is.

   When I returned I went to help Mark & Carol put some roofing on their shed.  Carol Built the shed, but had it moved to Marks place, so not sure who it belongs to.  We got the front side almost done.  I say almost because we didn't have the stuff we needed, so Carol is picking it up sometime for tomorrow.  It was really hot [about 80F] so they wanted to quit after a couple of hours. It was the kind of job I would have completed today, but is starting to look like a Mexican Manana project.
  After went for a short [one beer] happy hour.  Then Kenny asked who wanted to go for fish, so us and another couple agreed to go.  Fridays typically have all you can eat fish on Fridays.  The place we went [Dirtwater Café] has cod for this, so excellent fish.  We ate a lot of fish for 6 people, but it lived up to our expectations.  Stopped in for an evening chat with Kenny & Doris before calling it a day.