Five's a Party

 First new addition is a kitten! His name is Pepper, and he belongs to Liam :) He's 14 weeks old now, and pumpkin gets along quite well with him. He's a jumper/ climber, though, so we will have to nip that talent early! the second addition ia a new neice or nephew! Yep, my sister Cindy is expecting #4 sometime in July :) She has a boy and two girls, so it would be nice if she has a boy, but a girl would be fabulous too :D

If you look at the back right-hand side of a Canadian $10 bill, you will see an old veteran standing at attention near the Ottawa war memorial. His name is Robert Metcalfe and he died in 2008 at the age of 90. That he managed to live to that age is rather remarkable, given what happened in the Second World War. Born in England , he was one of the 400,000 members of the British Expeditionary Force sent to the mainland where they found themselves facing the new German warfare technique - the Blitzkrieg. He was treating a wounded comrade when he was hit in the legs by shrapnel. En route to hospital, his ambulance came under fire from a German tank, which then miraculously ceased fire. Evacuated from Dunkirk on HMS Grenade, two of the sister ships with them were sunk. Recovered, he was sent to allied campaigns in North Africa and Italy . En route his ship was chased by the German battleship Bismarck . In North Africa he served under General Montgomery against the Desert Fox, Ro

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It's snowing. I am not ready for this~ I am still waiting for summer!!!!