Dale - all: Boxing Day apparently is so-called because it is the day on which recipients of gifts on Christmas Day reciprocated giving - in boxes!
David -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dale Leavens Sent: 18 December 2007 05:03 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Totally off topic Oh, Boxing day is the day after Christmas day, December 26. I have heard a couple of accounts as to why it is called boxing day usually stories to do with the repackaging of gifts but I rather doubt it has to do with that since the term has been around a very long time and probably precedes the common use of cheap boxes for gifting. Now of course it is a day commonly used for the post Christmas sales. Here in Canada and the United Kingdom both Christmas day and Boxing days are usually statutory holidays. I don't know about the United States or other countries. Since my son who is now 30 was a teen ager we have had a road hockey tournament on the street in front of the house. something between 25 and 35 kids turn up more or less spontaneously, we paint a red line and blue lines and goal creases and face-off circles on the street and pretty well keep traffic off of it. Of course many of the kids aren't kids any more but we do get a few younger ones joining in each year. We usually drink a load of beer though some years it is difficult to keep from freezing in the neck of the bottle as you drink it. There wasn't enough snow last year so we didn't do our usual Christmas day tobogganing party. Sadly in some ways we usually get the hill to ourselves. People these days just don't seem to shift off of their a**ses. I must say I too am getting a little long in the tooth for it but it is a physical family activity and something to do after the turkey goes into the oven. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: tunecollector To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 11:00 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Totally off topic Dale, What is boxing day? Jim -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dale Leavens Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 7:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Bulk] Re: [BlindHandyMan] aHey, I want sympathy too We generally get a couple or three weeks of 40 below in February although I don't think it hit that once last winter. As a kid in Kirkland Lake just an hour and a half south of here I well remember walking to school at 60 and 65 below there were no school busses in those days. Now they take the school busses off if it gets below 38 below. The town used to put a second bus on the municipal service but the doors would freeze open so it was actually preferable to walk. They didn't put computers in cars then , there weren't really computers, many wouldn't start. Dad's old 55 Dodge Custom Royal always seemed to start and the chap across the street had one of the early VW Beetles which always seemed to start albeit with clouds of smoke. He used to have to bring out kettles of hot water though to get the wheels to turn and if we were lucky he'd give us a ride. No heaters in those cars, I imagine it was a bit like climbing into a coffin, have never done that so don't really know. The good news was that Dad would pick us up on his way home from the mine in the evening. I have only seen it get down to fifty below once when I was up here in about 1977 or so. This time since 1989 I don't think we have had below about 45 below. Seems to me we have been observing some form of global warming for about 45 years already. This winter though is shaping up to be a bit more severe. At least we will have good high banks for our boxing day road hockey tournament. Last Christmas we were playing on pretty well bare pavement. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:DLeavens%40puc.net> Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Kennedy To: [email protected] <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 8:19 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] aHey, I want sympathy too Coldest for me was 40 below zero in a town called Old Forge New York. I owned a Polaris dealership way back when and we rented trucks. 6 of my friend/customers and I loaded snow mobiles in the truck and went for a weekend. The driveway was about a quarter mile long and when I got to the end I shut my sled off and walked back to the house. I volunteered to keep the fire going... ----- Original Message ----- From: tunecollector To: [email protected] <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 6:17 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] aHey, I want sympathy too I cannot fathom that. The coldest that I have experienced was 19 degrees and that, by the way, was in the desert. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> ] On Behalf Of Dale Leavens Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 3:03 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] aHey, I want sympathy too It is just on 6 p.m. I just walked home from work, and Janet put down a plate of roast beef in front of me. It is minus 22C which is close on 6F below. I don't know how cold they are expecting tonight but it is clear out there so probably pretty cold. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:DLeavens%40puc.net> <mailto:DLeavens%40puc.net> Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: bruce To: [email protected] <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 5:18 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] aHey, I want sympathy too oh but tonight it is going down to 10 farenheight. Bruce -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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