Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Canada Day Eh!

We had a Canada Day Potluck dinner on our crescent yesterday.  We have a number of events during the year on our crescent; it's a great little street.  This is the longest I've lived anywhere in my life. There's a new crop of kids on the street now. The people who were children or young teens when I moved in are now grown adults, married and moving into their own homes. Even the little ones in this picture have grown up so fast, seems like they were all babies just last year.


We had a wonderful potluck. Some of my neighbours are great cooks, we had ribs, wings, pulled pork, burgers, hot dogs and all the fixings. Me, I'm not so much of a chef so I made a dill potato salad and brought potato chips. The socializing started around 5pm although my neighbour started smoking the ribs around 1pm; they sure smelled good. We ate at about 6pm. 





It had been threatening to rain all day but it was supposed to clear in the afternoon so we all thought the weather had missed us; we were wrong! Luckily it happened after we had finished eating and had put most of the food away. I had just got Liam out so he could meet a neighbour's dog, then this happened...


The kids certainly enjoyed it. Most everyone got soaked and had to go home to change but the party wasn't over. 

Most everyone on the crescent, at least on our half, chips into buy fireworks and around 9:30 pm we head to the end of the street. The guys set up for the fireworks display in the park across the road. One of my neighbours said when they started doing fireworks, they were the only group that did them in Barrington Park. Last night, there were three groups in the park setting fireworks off and another group probably at the next park as we could see their fireworks over the library roof. This was actually the first year, I've gone down to see the fireworks; in past years I've just watched from my bedroom window or tried to keep the dogs calm. 

Video of the Smithers Crescent Fireworks


The fireworks display went on for about an hour. The guys didn't rush it but tried alternating with the other groups setting them off in the park.

When I got home, Teddy and Liam both seemed to be quite relaxed. Maybe without me there to try and calm them they just settled down somewhere to wait out the noise.  

Teddy and Liam want to wish everyone a very Happy Canada Day eh! But they're really happy those fireworks only happen a few times a year.




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