@Todd — They have a new Canada Donut out now for the Olympics — it’s got white icing with red maple leaf sprinkles on top. Now that’s Canadian!

http://www.timhortons.com/ca/en/menu/menu_products.html

~Graham

True, I never go far without a word from The Great One, but to my knowledge no one but Gretzky ever says anything interesting in hockey. (Expecting a reaction on that, lol.)

Graham,

How would we spout ageless bon mots like “there’s no ‘U’ in ‘endeavor’” if there were, in fact, a U in it?

And is that a Red Green quotation I spy? That dude (‘s writing team) is a heck of a philosopher. It takes a lot of brains to make dumb look so smart.

Later,

Kelly

@Todd — Keep you head up and your stick on the ice. (It doesn’t get any more hockey than that…)

~Graham

Thanks for the hokey quotation. I bet you’ve got some hockey quotations too, by the sounds of it.

Please stop sending us all your exported banks and your Timmy H’s. How’m I supposed to visit and think Canada’s so quaint and different if we’ve got it all down here?

On the other hand, you may continue to export talented hockey players, as long as it’s only to those beloved Bruins.

Todd,

I wish you all smiles as you zigzag a little. Lord knows I’ve done some zigzagging myself in the past.

Hokey quotation time? Yes, I think so:

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.
—Will Rogers

(I am never without a good hokey-quotation.)

May this move be the best thing for you!

Until later,

Kelly

At least there is small chance they’ll go under during the next Savings and Loan incident…

Pike is a controversial fish, even here. Some people say they are bottom-feeders with too many bones, others say they’re good eatin’ Some just catch them for sport and throw them back — they can get quite big and strong.

I’m not a fisherman myself (any more) so I have no real opinion myself…

~Graham

Very familiar with TD. TD Banknorth, they used to be called in the U.S. They were all over northern NY and New England, then a year ago they bought up my bank and renamed themselves TD Bank, so we wouldn’t notice the invading northerners… now they’re all over down here, too.

Ah, yes, bankers’ hours can be even a little shorter. My mother would pick us up from school and *fly* to the bank which would close at 3, if I recall, then we’d get all the other stuff done that would be closing at 5.

Oh, those were the days. When I run into one still operating like that I feel like leaving a sign that says “Doh!” on their door.

It doesn’t have to be every day, but a couple of later nights and Saturdays (sleep in a couple of mornings!), even for the littlest places—if they’re asking me why the business is declining and they don’t want to look at whether they’re open when there’s a wallet out and ready to buy, that’s pretty head-in-the-sand.

Oh, and pike—I was instructed that should I ever go ice fishing (hahaha, I hate fish and fishing, so it won’t be soon) throwing the pike back is required. I stand firm… ish. Maybe the pike where Friar is are special.

Regards,

Kelly