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Bruce[_28_]

On Fri, 09 Aug 2019 08:03:26 -0300, wrote:

>On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 19:45:32 -0400, jmcquown >
>wrote:
>
>>On 8/6/2019 8:24 AM, wrote:
>>> On Tue, 06 Aug 2019 20:53:55 +1000, Bruce >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 02:54:24 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Monday, August 5, 2019 at 8:06:07 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>>> I wasn't very hungry and had little interest in dinner. We had been out
>>>>>> to Canal Days in Port Colborne and we had shwarma for lunch. It was
>>>>>> piled high with chicken and miscellaneous extras. I was ready to take a
>>>>>> pass on dinner, but my wife suggested that we could use up a bag of
>>>>>> shrimp that was in the freezer as a nice,light dinner. We put the
>>>>>> shrimp in a bowl of water to thaw while I made a marinade of lemon
>>>>>> juice, olive oil, lots of garlic, a dash of Worcestershire sauce, some
>>>>>> ketchup, salt, pepper, hot sauce and parsley. I put the shrimp in to
>>>>>> marinade for about and hour, then stuck them on skewers. I had a roll
>>>>>> and some salad with it. It was fantastic.
>>>>>
>>>>> "Civic Holiday" is such a bland descriptor. Did it used to be called
>>>>> something else?
>>>>
>>>> Christmas is called "Non-denominational Holiday" in Canada.
>>>
>><yawn> "Civic Holiday CDN" is even noted on my USian wall calendar.
>
>If that was marked the other day, August 8, that would be correct. It
>is a Civic Holiday, for us in Halifax we call it Natal Day and there
>are parades, fireworks etc. I don't know what other towns call it, it
>varies across the country, which is why calendars use the generic
>Civic Holiday. However, despite your wide knowledge, it is not listed
>as Civic Holiday for December 25 - I just checked my Canadian Wildlife
>Calendar and it says Christmas Day.

Lol, I think you misunderstood what Jill was yawning, I mean saying.