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Keep on Jammin’
Let it snow, let it snow let it snow
Well we broke down and got a puppy the other day, a black Labrador Retriever and she is 3 months old.
Her name is Midnight for now. She was named this because we picked her out at midnight.
We got her from a farmer near Woodstock Ontario. She was from a litter of 8 and we thought that we knew what to look for when getting her and it all went out the window when all of them were together at our feet attacking our shoes and pant legs. The onslaught knocked the common sense out of us.
So fast forward today and let the story begin!
We received around 5-6 inches of fresh snow this morning when I woke up and it was great to look at. I got Midnight ready for her morning constitution and opened the front door. She then looked outside at the first step and jumped onto it which was covered in snow, oh this was her first encounter with snow by the way.
She was up to below her neck in snow and she was stuck with noway out. She tried to lift her legs to no avail and then started to shake her head in a frantic manner. Midnight started to lightly wine and looked up at me with a sigh. I felt bad, but I started to laugh uncontrollably and so did my neighbours who were all over the place shoveling their snow.
Since the snow was so high and she wasn’t going anywhere fast, so I had to get the shovel to make room her on the lower steps. Then I had to make a pathway down to the sidewalk. Midnight had never seen a shovel either and started to bark at it and the snow that was flying around from it. I wish that I had the video camera out to get it on film!
Keep on Jammin'(or shoveling)
The great Massey Hall in Toronto
Massey Hall is certainly a place that you have to go and see once in your lifetime! It’s a large but intimate venue to see a show. Here are some of the greats who have ventured and visited the grand lady, Frank Zappa, Winston Churchill, Enrico Caruso, Luciano Pavarotti, Sir Edward Elgar, Toscanini, George Gershwin, Oscar Peterson, Glenn Gould, the Dalai Lama and Maria Callas.
The first concert I saw there was with my older brother Tim and we saw Devo. Yes, that is correct Devo and what a show it was but I’ll tell you all later about that one!
I use to work directly across the street on the third floor. I was a jeweller back then and boy some of the things that I saw crawl out after a show was hilarious. Our shop was directly facing the outside fire escape of Massey Hall and one day some lovers started to go at it, right in front of our eyes! We all decided to get some hastily hand made score cards and you should have seen them fly down the fire escape, priceless!
One day around noon, I looked out the window and saw the regular, everyday activities. Then 5 minutes later I saw a few people with red hats and jackets coming out of Massey Hall. Nothing out of the ordinary there. Then it grew and grew and grew till it looked like little worker ants walking around the street, everywhere. It was a convention of the Salvation Army workers and this picture comes to mind every time I walk by it.
It was built in 1894 for the Massey family and has seen many fabulous acts inside the hallowed hall. It was the site of the worlds best live jazz album ever recorded in many jazz lovers eyes! It was the Charlie Parker-Dizzy Gillespie concert May 1953. The album recorded was called Jazz at Massey Hall. The thing was that hardly anyone was in attendance. That same night there was a boxing show in another legendary venue down the street called Maple Leaf Gardens so everyone went there in stead, silly idiots!
So if you are just walking around Yonge at Shutter street, look down Shutter until you see the great gal and tip your hat to her!
Keep on Jammin’
