Happy St. Patrick's Day & Another Local Talented Artist for the Niagara Region

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!

Last year, we were able to go out to some local bars & pubs for some drinks with family and friends because it landed on a weekend. Unfortunately, this year, it lands on a week day. So to bring back good memories I've posted some photos of Bob and I. One even contains Marnie. :o)

Karyn Bower - ever heard of her? If you haven't, you should!

She has been a professional vocalist through out the Niagara Region for almost 2 decades.

Karyn’s love of music has been with her for as long as she can remember. Her earliest influences were singers Karen Carpenter and Anne Murray, and Fleetwood Mac. Although Karyn has performed in different musical genres her love remains in pop, soft rock and country, and says doing the classic country, rock and pop hits of the 50’s 60’s 70’s has been a lot of fun and brings back a lot of memories of the music she grew up listening to on the radio and listening to on her mom’s records.

Karyn has sung with several bands over the years, starting with Charlie’s roadhouse band, Barstool Mountain, Wild Horses, Wine Country, and Karisma. She has also been involved in other projects, one being a two girl duet called “Lipstick” with singer and friend Donna Gandza. And a male /female duet Burden and Bower with friend Dave Burden, who recently wrapped up a 2 year run. Although they recently ended the duet due to differences Karyn says “ Dave is a very talented individual and although things didn’t turn out the way we thought they might, I wish him the best and know he will be successful in whatever genre he chooses”.

Karyn is currently performing at several legions throughout the Niagara Region. There is no better venue than this , she states, as these fine people are respectable and appreciative, and they come out to dance and have a nice time. The hours are decent and she never wants to go back to the days of putting up with the heavy drinkers and bar fights in the local bars. The acceptance she has been receiving in the Legions make those years of struggle all seem worth it.

Click the photo below of Karyn & Me to go to her Web Site.

And I am also happy to report she is my 2nd cousin! :o)

Hopefully, she will have CD's available -- so check back often!

And as for Ceol Cara, they will be playing @

The Irish Harp Pub http://www.theirishharppub.com/

245 King Street, Niagara-On-The-Lake, Ontario

Join them in the Harp all afternoon & evening as they celebrate!

ALSO, hoping my Yellow Submarine bag arrives today!!!

A day at Prudhommes Wet 'N Wild / Victoria Hall in Vineland Station, Ontario, Canada 03-15-09

The weather was to be awesome today so last night it was decided we would go metal detecting with Steve & Nadine. The phone call came around 8:30ish asking to meet them at a local Tim Horton's for breakfast. After our showers we headed out and beat them to the coffee shop. After a fun discussion about where we should go, we jump into our cars and drove around to the old Victoria Hall as it had caught on fire in the early hours of March 10th.

If you click the above photo it will take you to a photo album I took of more photos of this building.

And a following is a video that a good friend of my brother's (Bryan) took along with more photo's of the actual fire when it happened.

We saw other people inside the old Prudhommes Wet N Wild Park where I had worked one summer as a teenager so we decided to pop in and take some shots. SO weird!!! Everything is overgrown, very sad.

Click the photo above to go to my mini album of how the park looks now.

This is how it looked prior

After walking around and reminiscing we decided to go metal detecting.

CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT OUR DETECTING STORY.

After hours of detecting and including a nice coffee break thanks to Nadine, Bob started to feel weak since we really had not eaten anything all day except for a muffin. It was decided we would part ways and go off in search of food and head for home for a nap and a day of relaxing and painting. After all, I had a special request for a painted frame, so I should get that finished before the end of the day and Bob is practicing his Guitar Hero.

RECYCLE and get items you need or want!

I came across this interesting web site that is sort of like Ebay, except you SWAP items. Because times are tough and no one really wants to spend money, this is an awesome idea!!!!!

Here's the link: http://www.swapsity.ca/

I think for now it is just for Canada. I know when I joined you had to request a membership.

LAST NIGHT WAS MOVIE NIGHT

After work, Bob and I headed out to Heather & Xander's for dinner. Heather made this fantastic assortment of Indian style food. I can't remember any of the names. lol

I know there was brown rice, some sort of pita bread, something spicy with cheese, butter chicken and something with spinach and these little bean things. Anyways, TOTALLY YUMMY! Heather is an amazing cook! She can bake and decorate cakes as well as cook dinner! lol She even served Coconut Milk for us to drink.



After dinner we took off to go see THE WATCHMEN in Niagara Falls.



I don't want to give it away, but for me, I really loved the movie!!! I know they said it was long, but again for me, it wasn't. I think my favourite character was Dr. Manhattan. teehee!


So in honour of this movie, I located this blog entry with cutesy little Watchmen Toys, artwork, etc...


Super Punch: Watchmen link roundup