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[ANTIQUARIAN]

Well I'm having 2 of my pub buddies over for a few brew and munchies after lunch. Using throw away dishes and sanitizer at the door and in the washroom in case they have to go.

The weathers nice so it'll be done outdoors either on the patio or carport.

You get tired of being a hermit after awhile.....

I hope you guys had a good time yesterday Bill. It’s amazing how we now appreciate the smaller things so much more when we can’t have it.

We're figuring out a funeral service for my sister this week.
Ten people maximum in a funeral home. Or at any "public" indoor gathering.
The heck with that.
So... outdoors in a Church parking lot so far. Yes, masks and spreading out.
A field near the funeral home was offered, but vehicle traffic/noise was deemed to close.
We'll have a smaller ceremony at the cemetery the following day. Though that will have quite a group too.

I’m so sorry for your loss my friend… my condolences.

Morning Dave-How's the back this morning?

Thanks for asking Jim.
I just put the heating pad back on and I’m going to try and take it easy today in preparation for a couple of job interviews this week.

 

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[ANTIQUARIAN]

Morning ARC.

 

[pepperj]

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/niagara-falls-without-water-1969/

In the early 90's a friend used to ask me every year to go down to the site at the bottom of the falls where he set up the pyrotechnics for the New Years Eve fireworks display.
He said it was amazing that he could knock ice off the falls from the concussion blasts from the mortars he sent up.
I would look at the temp. gauge -25+ every year and think nope.
I kind of regret now that I was such a weather wimp as it doesn't get that cold now, and the freeze up isn't the same.

 

[pepperj]

Made up a large batch of energy bar mix yesterday.
5lbs should be lasting me more than a week or two.

Ingredients are organic pecans,walnuts, peanuts,peanut butter, cashews, hazelnuts, currents, dates, lrg rolled oats, molasses. Lots of fresh ginger, and added kick some vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg.
Goes down well with the morning

 

[Rookster]

Morning Dave

 

[bill from lachine]

Good morning ARC, Jim, Rook, Toecutter.

 

[pepperj]

I just put the heating pad back on and I’m going to try and take it easy today in preparation for a couple of job interviews this week.

Usually it's an ice pack for the first 24hrs-then heat. Brrrrr!

 

[pepperj]

Morning Bill
Looks like another no need the watering regime day.
By noon you should well soaked by the looks of the radar.
The line of heavier rain heading down the river midday, but that could change also.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/niagara-falls-without-water-1969/

I just had to share these amazing photo's with everyone ARC.
I grew up 90mins east of 'The Falls' and have visited there at least 50 times as a kid and for business over the past 25 years.

"The first person to ride over the falls and live to tell the tale was not a famous daredevil or performer, but a widowed teacher named Annie Edson Taylor. Taylor was struggling financially when she came up with the perfect attention-getting stunt: She would go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She used an oaken barrel with a crudely cushioned interior, which she tested by sending it over the falls with a cat stuffed inside. The traumatized feline survived the plunge, so on Oct. 24, 1901 – her 63rd birthday – Taylor climbed inside the barrel and was set adrift from a rowboat upstream. Less than twenty minutes later, she was recovered from the bottom of the falls, bleeding from the head but otherwise uninjured. She later recalled “If it was with my dying breath, I would caution anyone against attempting the feat … I would sooner walk up to the mouth of a cannon, knowing it was going to blow me to pieces than make another trip over the fall.”

An estimated 5,000 bodies were found at the foot of the falls between 1850 and 2011, and an estimated 40 people are killed each year when they are swept over the falls–most of which are suicides. Other figures suggest that the number of suicides is between 20 and 30, many of which are not publicized by officials. The majority of jumps take place from the Canadian Falls, which account for between 55% and 70% of suicides. Mortality rate for the daredevil attempts over the falls is approximately 25%."

 

[bill from lachine]

Good morning Dave.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Good morning Dave.

Morning Bill.

Morning Dave

Good morning rook.

 

[Rookster]

Morning bill

 

[Blak bart]

 

[ARC]

Morning Bill... Bart.

 

[Rookster]

Morning bart

 

[pepperj]

Morning Bart

 

[Blak bart]

Good morning everyone !!

 

[pepperj]

As the Niagara River dried up below the falls, people scrambled to the river bed to collect souvenirs that had been hidden for hundreds of years. Artifacts from the War of 1812 such as bayonets, muskets and tomahawks were found.
https://www.niagaranow.com/entertai...story-unveiled-when-the-river-stopped-flowing

 

[bill from lachine]

Good morning Bart.

 

[Toecutter]

I just had to share these amazing photo's with everyone ARC.
I grew up 90mins east of 'The Falls' and have visited there at least 50 times as a kid and for business over the past 25 years.

"The first person to ride over the falls and live to tell the tale was not a famous daredevil or performer, but a widowed teacher named Annie Edson Taylor. Taylor was struggling financially when she came up with the perfect attention-getting stunt: She would go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She used an oaken barrel with a crudely cushioned interior, which she tested by sending it over the falls with a cat stuffed inside. The traumatized feline survived the plunge, so on Oct. 24, 1901 – her 63rd birthday – Taylor climbed inside the barrel and was set adrift from a rowboat upstream. Less than twenty minutes later, she was recovered from the bottom of the falls, bleeding from the head but otherwise uninjured. She later recalled “If it was with my dying breath, I would caution anyone against attempting the feat … I would sooner walk up to the mouth of a cannon, knowing it was going to blow me to pieces than make another trip over the fall.”

An estimated 5,000 bodies were found at the foot of the falls between 1850 and 2011, and an estimated 40 people are killed each year when they are swept over the falls–most of which are suicides. Other figures suggest that the number of suicides is between 20 and 30, many of which are not publicized by officials. The majority of jumps take place from the Canadian Falls, which account for between 55% and 70% of suicides. Mortality rate for the daredevil attempts over the falls is approximately 25%."