Happy Birthday Catherine!

[Catherine]

We had a good birthday feast and the pie was good.

I still have the Thanksgiving feast tomorrow and Monday is technically the actual holiday. I count them all as my birthday.
Getting older is worth celebrating. In two more years I can get a seniors discount on transit, the zoo, the ballet and just about everything else. I think I get a tax break too. Who wouldn't want to get older when there are so many advantages.

It is sad about all the children that were stolen from their parents and given to other people. It is a dark day in Canadian history.
It is going to take generations to sort this out. We also had residential schools that indigenous children were forced into and where they were treated badly. That went on for generations and it is going to take a lot of time to heal the survivors of such schools. It is a step in the right direction to have the country admit that what was done was wrong.
Many children died in those schools and their families never learned what happened to them.  It is a very sad thing and we must as a country work to heal the damage that was done. It will take generations.  


Those tiny lizards will only be 3-4 inches when they grow up. Their parents get into green houses and enjoy eating the insects in there and then they lay their tiny eggs on plants. The plants are shipped to places like Toronto. If they are lucky they hatch in a safe place and they can end up at a reptile centre. We have the food that they need and a safe set up for such tiny lizards.

If the parents had laid the eggs outside they probably wouldn't have survived the hurricanes. These are very lucky little lizards.