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Post by colleen on Nov 28, 2005 12:00:36 GMT -4
This is not a suggestion but a question tha may lead to a question later. Confused? I just want to know how much we need to stay "on topic"? You may have noticed that I tend to expand the topic quite a bit, some moderators don't like that too much. But what can I say? I'm the queen of bunny trails and I like to see conversation progress naturally. I appreciate your response, and if it's the wrong answer than I'll give you some suggestions! lol just kidding....mostly
cheers, cj
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Post by colleen on Nov 25, 2005 11:41:58 GMT -4
Hey, I went to school with all those guys! Bruce's brother doesn't live that far from me, here in the AV, he is married to the girl next door, literally, (from Sydney Mines that is) and their son is in my daughter's grade 2 class. It's a small, small world.
cheers, cj
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Post by colleen on Nov 24, 2005 17:54:33 GMT -4
She was one of my best friends in junior and senior high. I recently found her hiding out in Montreal. She is a little known Sydney Mines treasure. I think all the oldies, my age would remember her as a talented musician though.
cheers, cj
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Post by colleen on Nov 17, 2005 15:30:42 GMT -4
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Post by colleen on Nov 17, 2005 14:47:24 GMT -4
Gee, I hope I'm doing this right, every message board is different. Anyway, I dont' know if any of you youngins have ever heard of Holly Arsenault. She is an extremely talented jazz pianist, based in Montreal but orginally from Sydney Mines. She has recently released her first CD, entitled Hush. It is fabulous, as is she. If you like jazz have a listen. Even if you don't like jazz have a listen, broaden your muscial experience. cheers, cj
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Post by colleen on Nov 17, 2005 14:39:32 GMT -4
Thanks for the direction.
cheers!
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Post by colleen on Nov 17, 2005 11:03:10 GMT -4
Hi, Chad Bennett is my cousin, I didn't realize he was so successful at home, since I am sooo far away in the Annapolis Valley. Do you know if the band has a website? I'd like to find out more about them.
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Post by colleen on Dec 4, 2005 19:35:41 GMT -4
Nothing can make a Cape Bretoner homesick, like Christmas Daddies. I was so pleased once again this year to see the Cape Breton portion of the show aired on ASN, I don't know why it isn't on from 12:00 pm though. Most of us who live away want to see the whole thing. And I have to let you all know that the Mainland portion is pathetic compared to Cape Breton's. I use to tell my husband about it every year, because he thought the Christmas Daddies show was really bad. BUT THEN!!! They started airing the Cape Breton Daddies and he is parked right on the couch watching it! So now he is homesick for Cape Breton and he's a valley boy! lol. I can't believe that Allie Bennett (a great musician from Sydney Mines)is still doing the show and Fred Lavery, it was like going into a time machine. To top off the Cape Breton Daddies experience the fire at the hospital was on the news right afterward and seeing anything from home is like a knife in the heart. I can't come home for Christmas this year because too many folks in my husbands family are coming here from Ontario, ma and da aren't coming up here, getting too old. (sigh) Guess I'll be left here dreaming of a Cape Breton Christmas.
cheers, cj
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Post by colleen on Nov 28, 2005 10:21:53 GMT -4
My daughter lives in Halifax while she attends Dalhousie. I hope she doesn't choose to stay there after she graduates. Halifax harbour doesn't give me an ocean fix. I feel that the Bay of Fundy is more ocean than Halifax harbour, at least it has mountains and trees around it. Halifax harbour is too industrialized with container ships, navy ships and oil refineries, killing the ocean experience.
I Hope that you can some day make your ocean home, dream come true, sooner rather than later. Time flies, especially once you have children and before you know it, your kids aren't from Cape Breton and going back conflicts with where your kids want to be.
cheers, cj
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Post by colleen on Nov 25, 2005 20:21:37 GMT -4
I'm actually a Greeners girl, you know all along shore Road. But you are right, the Bay of Fundy doesn't have that sewage/rotting fish smell that Greeners had. lol Doesn't matter to me, I love that smell. I swam beside the sewer pipe through my whole childhood and it never killed me. That's where the water was warmest! lol I'm just joking. The Bay of Fundy is barely ocean water, although it is freezing cold. It doesn't come close to home.
cheers, cj
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Post by colleen on Nov 25, 2005 11:49:46 GMT -4
I still have dreams about the 5 and 10! And why was nothing hung up in the Bargain Store, everything was on those wooden shelf/bins? Anyway, I was talking to my niece at a family wedding a few weeks ago and she told me that she still bowls at Strand Bowling Lanes! And apparently it still looks the same as it did when we were kids! Oh man, I'm starting to get homesick, that is never good. I know my husband is not going to want to drive me home this time of year. I guess I'll have to go down to Wolfville to get a good whiff of the Bay of Fundy, sometimes it smells just like home and does the trick for a while.
cheers, cj
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Post by colleen on Nov 24, 2005 17:50:26 GMT -4
Boo Smith is still around? OMG I forgot he existed. I wish I had known about the Santa Claus Parade when I talked to my mother she would have been really impressed! Are you kids old enough to remember Santa in the Bargain Store window? That is one of my favourite childhood, Christmas memories. I knew it was Christmas time the day that I would come home from school and Santa would be in the window. Then I would go in and get 5 cents worth of smarties and hope that my aunt or my aunt' s friend or grandmother's neighbour was working the candy counter so I would get a bigger bag! lol Oh the memories
cheers, cj
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Post by colleen on Nov 23, 2005 10:55:46 GMT -4
Is there anything new since June? lol Seriously, I really love when I phone my mother and I already know all the news, she is so impressed with me! So any news, (I mean it anything) would only enhance our mother-daughter relationship. Thanks cheers, cj
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