Enjoy your explorations!

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There are people all over the world trying to do this. We have a Canadian adventure team! This da Vinci Project is competing against 26 other teams. Because of all the interest and hopes of success, the London-based company Canadian Arrow is already taking reservations for space passengers.

The rocket "Wild Fire" is all hand-made. It will have about 17,000 horsepower and will be the equivalent of a .45 caliber bullet when ready. It is kept very simple but has many backups in case of problems.

Don’t miss Canadian history in the making.

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Canadian Blood Services – Summer Volunteers

Du Maurier Downtown Jazz Festival

Frankenmuth Bavarian Festival (Michigan- authentic old German town)

Havelock Country Jamboree (one of the top 5 festivals in Canada)

McMaster University – Mini-Shad Enrichment Program (end of the month)

Memorial Tug-of-War Championships (highland games)

National Aboriginal Day

Royal Canadian Mint (Coin Design Contest)

Summer in the Square Concerts (all over Toronto)

Toronto Street Festival (shows, performers, fireworks, parades, etc.)

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June 20 – Father’s Day

June 20 – First day of Summer - Summer Solstice

June 24 – St. Jean Baptiste Day (Quebec)

This is also Senior Citizens Month, Deaf-Blind Awareness Month, Stroke Month and Better Breathing Month, Black Music Month

Question: What is a memorable story about you and food in the summer?

My grandfather used to spend a few months with us each summer when I was a boy. He would usually sit in a lawn chair outside in the shade and do two things all day long. He would spit on the sidewalk regularly, which would annoy my mother to no end. He would also swat and kill flies all day; the bodies would be all around his chair. We would have to hose down the area regularly. He was a good and gentle man and is remembered fondly for many other reasons. – O.S.

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• More money is printed daily for the game monopoly than money printed by the U.S. treasury.
• The average ear of corn has 800 kernels arranged in 16 rows.
• The most collect phone calls are made on Father’s Day.
• The name for Oz in the Wizard of Oz was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence Oz.
• The Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered after his death as a propagator of violence - he invented dynamite.
• The windiest spot on Earth is the coast of Antarctica's Eastern Adelie Land, where the average wind speed -- all year long -- is about 55 miles per hour.

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Mars is about 93 million miles away but it seems closer after seeing the Mars rover photos. Here are some of the highlights from all the scientific data:

• The Martian atmosphere is 95 % carbon dioxide and .1% oxygen.
• The atmosphere is so thin that standing on the equator, the temperature would change from 21 degrees Celsius at your feet to 0 degrees Celsius at your head.
• Surface pressure is very low. Your organs would push out against your skin.
• One Martian day is 24 hrs, 40 min long. A year is 687 Earth days.
• Gravity is about 1/3 of Earth. A person could slam-dunk a basketball from 3x the height.
• Olympus Mons on Mars is 27 km high. Mt. Everest is 9 km high.
• Valles Marineris canyon on Mars is 4000 km long and 7 km deep. The Grand Canyon is 400 km long and 1.8 km deep.
• The first craft to visit Mars was Mariner 4 in 1965.
• There is evidence of erosion, large floods and small river systems.
• The month March dries its name from Mars.

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Armed with knowledge of Feng Shui, Astrology, Tarot Cards, and many other tools of the trade, be prepared to help people. The job is a combination of self-enlightenment, openness, helping others and making money. You must be open to a world beyond science and reality and tap into the energy of the universe to allow it to guide you.

From an education point of view, it would be worthwhile to take some of the hospitality courses found in local community colleges.

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(source unknown. Email from a friend.)

"Hey Dad," one of my kids asked the other day, "What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?"

"We didn't have fast food when I was growing up," I informed him. "All the food was slow."

"C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?"

"It was a place called 'at home,’" I explained. "Grandma cooked every day and when Grandpa got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it."

By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table. But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it:

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis, set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card. In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears AND Roebuck. Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died. My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow). We didn't have a television in our house until I was 11, but my grandparents had one before that. It was, of course, black and white, but they bought a piece of colored plastic to cover the screen. The top third was blue, like the sky, and the bottom third was green, like grass. The middle third was red. It was perfect for programs that had scenes of fire trucks riding across someone's lawn on a sunny day. Some people had a lens taped to the front of the TV to make the picture look larger.

I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza; it was called "pizza pie." When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.

We didn't have a car until I was 15. Before that, the only car in our family was my grandfather's Ford. He called it a "machine."

I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.

Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was.

All newspapers were delivered by boys, and all boys delivered newspapers. I delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which I got to keep 2 cents. I had to get up at 4 AM every morning. On Saturday, I had to collect the 42 cents from my customers. My favorite customers were the ones who gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the change. My least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.

Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. Touching someone else's tongue with yours was called French kissing and they didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they did in French movies. French movies were dirty and we weren't allowed to see them.

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing. Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?

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It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is slightly greased. - John Nesvig

Life is the only game in which the entire object is just to play. The only way to lose is to sit out. Too bad many people do. – Sean Reece

"How can I know what I think till I see what I say?"

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

Blood is thicker than water, and considerably more difficult to get out of the carpet. - Woody Allen

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Descarte: "I think, therefore I am."

Descarte’s Wife: "You are. Therefore I am annoyed."

I'm really steamed at my wife. She is so immature!
Last night I was taking a bath and she came in and sunk all my little boats!
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There was a middle-aged couple who had two stunningly beautiful blonde teenage daughters. The parents decided to try one last time for the son they always wanted.
After months of trying, the wife became pregnant, and sure enough, nine months later she delivered a healthy baby boy. The joyful father rushed to the nursery to see his new son.
He took one look and was horrified to see the ugliest child he had ever seen. He went to his wife and said that there was no way he could be the father of that child.
"Look at the two beautiful daughters I fathered."
Then he gave her a stern look and asked, "Have you been fooling around on me?!"
The wife just smiled sweetly and said, "Not this time."
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