Pictures from the La De Da parade

Here are some pictures of our parade.

This is the manure spreader containing our city counsel.









These are the Marching Anchovies.


This is the Umbrella Drill Team.

This is our host joining in the festivities.

The 4th of July

I hope everyone had a great holiday (either the 4th in the U.S. or the 1st in Canada). Our little village on the coast celebrates the holiday big time. There is a parade at noon. The whole town turns out to see the city counsel ride in a manure spreader. Anyone who wants, can participate. We have the Marching Anchovies, the Umbrella Drill Team, and many other local groups.

The whole town turns into an outdoor market for the afternoon. Everyone eats until they can't possibly eat more. There is live music, and this year there was belly dancing and fire dancing.
At dark the fireworks start. This year some of the onlookers were sending up bursts that rivaled the professional ones.

We gathered with good friends for the festivities. We had a good time as we partied and celebrated our freedom.

The Saga Continues

Tonight as I was preparing to do my duties as Official Nag of the online Kiss of Death chapter, I realized that my KOD directory was not in the backup set that I had restored onto the new computer. That meant that those files are lost. Maybe forever or maybe I can get that hard drive working again for a short period. I've been making a list of the files I need to pull off, if the disk every comes to life for a few minutes.

I was able to search the internet and find some of the information. My critical spreadsheet is in the files area of a Yahoo group so that others can see what's scheduled. I never thought that I'd be the one desperately in need of the information. However, I was really glad it was there. I was able to get the tax forms from the IRS website. I had to check past emails to see what the number of the tax form is for Canadian citizens. With some effort, I was able to put things back together and send out my monthly emails to the instructors.

The lesson to be learned is to utilize other people's servers. I use Gmail, so I have my emails saved and don't need to worry about using too much space. (Well, I do, but most people can save their emails forever in almost 3GB of space.) Yahoo had my spreadsheet. The IRS had the tax forms. There are services that will let you backup your entire hard disk to their servers. I'll review some of those later. For now, use the simple, free services to make your life easier.