April 28 2022 - Not enough Friday the 13ths - Port Dover Day moves to the Capital

 

Are there not enough Friday the 13ths in 2022? There aren't - only one coming up in May.  Why do I ask this question?   CBC tells me that more than 800 RCMP offers may be brought into Ottawa this weekend as they prepare for a second convoy involving hundreds of motorcycles instead of trucks.  This is the test of whether they learned something from the truck convoy.   And doesn't it make you wonder where you live?  It turns out that we have alternate news just like in the US:  "The Shed" offered the 24=hour live feed of activities during the truck Freedom Convoy.  It is highly involved in this planned convoy. The CBC article HERE describes more about it. "Protests planned for Ottawa this weekend are being organized by several people who took part in the weeks-long occupation of the city during the Freedom Convoy earlier this year.  "Rolling Thunder Ottawa" and adjacent events are planned to begin Friday with events running through Sunday. There are different motives for each of the groups officially involved in organizing the event, but organizers were all involved in the Freedom Convoy in some capacity. " Poor Port Dover!  Will they lose out to Ottawa as the most number of motorcycles congregating?  We'll have to see what happens in only a few weeks on May 13th 2022.   Alas, I don't have Dog-Tooth Violets in my garden.  This is one of our ephemeral Spring flowers in Ontario, like our beautiful white and red Trilliums. Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblog.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwellart.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

The Fear of Friday the 13th

Every day is not like Friday the 13th.  We have so few lucky and unlucky days in western tradition.  But this one has taken on a great tradition since the 19th century.  It is thought to have originated with the story of Jesus' last supper in which there were 13 individuals in the Upper Room on the 13th of Nisan Maundy Thursday the night before his death on Good Friday.   In Spanish-speaking countries it is Tuesday the 13th that is considered a day of bad luck.  Tuesday is considered dominated by the influence of Ares, the god of war.  And Friday the 17th is considered a day of bad luck in Italian popular culture.   This salmon expired earlier in the week on Forty Creek in Grimsby.  There were still a few swimming salmon moving upstream, but many more have expired completing their journeys.