A strange breed

Voters all over the world have become a very strange breed.  It would seem that they can not trust anybody enough to give them a clear mandate.  Where you have proportional representation systems, of course, coalitions are the norm but in systems such as the British patterned government systems they are not.
However, as of late in many countries voters seem to be unable to make a clear choice.  The U.S., for instance, will have, at least for the next two years, a Democrat President (Thank God), a Republican Chamber of  Representatives and a Democrat Senate; a clear recipe for legislative paralysis.  Britain has a coalition Conservative/Liberal government, odd bedfellows.
Québec very recently elected a minority government split evenly between Separatist P.Q. (54) and Liberal Federalists (50), the remaining seats split between a radical left party Q.S. also separatist leaning (2) and a the right leaning semi-federalist C.A.Q., about a dozen.  No one wants to coalesce with another so it will be negociations ad nauseam to pass legislation.
No wonder we have an unending  economic crisis and uncertain social climate.

Four seasons in one

An Autumn Bouquet from St-Sauveur, Qc

Le solitaire têtu

Un pommier solitaire croît dans le stationnement d'un motel, Le Jolibourg, à St-Sauveur-des-Monts.  Le croiriez-vous, il reste quelques 4 pommes dans l'arbre en ce 26 septembre.

Matter of fact

Last night, we all went to La Crêperie du Vieux Beloeil, in Beloeil of course, for supper.  We went in two cars since our cars are small.  On the way back, Ariane, 6 years and a 1/2, discussed her  3 former cats: one died accidentally and two of old age.  As the discussion evolved it turned to human deaths.
At one point, she told her aunts:"You will also die and when you are both dead, your house will be mine!"

The coin has been tossed

...and fell on the edge:  54 P.Q. MNAs and 50 Liberals, 19 Coalit6ion Avenir Québec and 2 Québec Solidaire.  We should have some very interesting moments in the coming months...and maybe a new elction within the next 12 months; but the Liberals will have to choose a new leader before we have one since the the ex-prime minister has resigned his leadership after being beaten in his own county.
Sic transit gloria mundi.

A toss of the coin

Tomorrow Québec will have a general elction to the Assemblée Nationale.  As of today, September 3, it is too close to call with over 20% of eligible voters claiming to be undecided as to who they will chose.
Of course it must be admitted that a "none of the above" option would be called for here; still tomorrow I will have to put a cross somewhere on that bulletin.  So I guess I will follow my ancestors advice: "Of two evils, chose the lesser one".  I will thus hold my nose and vote Liberal, Marie-Ève Pelletier, the Liberal candidate,   is a young woman and may bring something new to the grand old tired party.

Oh well!

When I turned 6 or 7, I started losing my baby teeth, not unlike anybody else, and grow my adult ones.  When I turned 30, the upper half quit on me.  When I turned 70, all but three of the remaining lower teeth retired.  I have now, on July 13, lost those three loyal ones.
Of course I had to get new prosthesis.  My trusted dentutologist now was 90 kilometers away, I had to find another one.  Just in the medico-dental center there happened to be a team, so I went.  Turns out the team was a father and daughter one.  The father began the job before leaving on vacation and daughter finished it before going on maternity leave.
That association seemed to confirm a trend I have noticed, lately, in our province.  More and more we see business signs, even in small construction businesses stating: "So &So et fille or filles"; there is a pastry shop somewhere nearby called " Mme et ses filles".
Our women are really taking their place everywhere, it calls for adjustments for everybody and it creates, I believe, a mellower business environmemnt...altough some females can be just as ferocious, and at times even more, than any male around.
"Times, they are achangin'".  Can't remember who wrote or said that, but is it ever true.