N is for Nice. It was a very nice day. It was a very nice sunny day except for one five minute rain shower--came down like buckets and then the sun came back out and that was nice too, cos then it was cooler. And it was clearing so fast there wasn't much water left on the road for the Main Street dance in Earl Grey. Earl Grey is nice. It's the town where my mother grew up and I used to go there every summer as a kid to stay with my grandparents. Even now, hot wind, smell of tar and white cream soda, and I'm so eight all over again. Or twelve. Speaking of twelve, I saw one of the guys from Earl Grey (from their baseball team) that I had a crush on when I was twelve. What was I thinking? *L* He aged badly....But the day was so nice. We had tea, and local entertainment, from choirs to children singing to skits put on by "the committee" a group of super nice people who got it into their heads to get Earl Grey rockin' for the Centennial. There was good food, from pancake breakfasts to souvlaki everywhere (mom says she doesn't like lamb much, and there was no ketchup, but she's from Calgary so we make allowances for that sort of thinking *L*) And an outhouse race that I'll post pics from when I get 'em, and a parade, not the kind like Disneyland, all pyrotechnics and stuff, but antique tractors and RCMP and Pam's Playschool kids in the back of a pickup truck...really rural nice....Baseball games and those little ice cream cups that come with the wooden spoons. Home baking of course, with brownies and carrot cake being the big favorites this year apparently. Lots of tea (It is Earl Grey, after all) and coffee and galvanized steel tubs full of ice and bottled water, thankfully. Nice people, all trying to remember one another, and if they couldn't, well, hell, they wanted to talk to you anyway. Garden tours and history tours and antique stores. Just so damned nice, all of it.
Of course, there's always a naughty...this one being that after the Canada Day Great Big Sea concert in Wascana Park, I'm still totally sexed up and so need to find someone who can fuck and play the bodhran at the same time! Donkey Riding indeed.