I can see Canananada from my house but not today because fog banks
We had a mix of weather today, ending with fog banks obscuring the Canadian side of the Upper St. Marys River (No there isn’t an apostrophe in Marys.)
I did a quick grock run to Meijer at 7:30 or so this morning. It was mostly hot all day but thunderstorms rolled through in the late afternoon. After that, we sat om Bill’s Birch Point Beach Bank Bench for a while.
There is a big fog bank where Canada usually is. It’s less than a mile away from our American beach. I can (and have) kayaked over to Canada but we know better than to land on the Canadian shore. Sadly, since me and my beach cousins are descended from immigrants from Canada, who came from Scotland. All that said. I think us Scottish waspy type people were probably treated a lot better than those who don’t have pale skin. I have light skin but I always tanned to where a friend once said I looked “black” but we’ll go there some other day (or not).
Some people in younger generations don’t like us putting the American flag down on the beach. As much as I hate what our country is doing these days, I am not unhappy about the flag being there. I HATE the crapola going on in our country but it IS our country. We need to take it back from those who would usurp the constitution our fore-fathers crafted. They were not perfect but they had the right idea.
The other reason we put the American flag in front of the moomincabin is to let Canadian folks know they are approaching an American shore. Landing in our country can be very dangerous these days and Canadian shores are only about a mile away.
July 1st, 2025 at 1:26 pm
I can’t bear to even look at the flag these days but understand why you would put one up. In my family, my great-grandparents came to a coal mining town. The Scottish grandfather worked outside the mines as a brick mason. The overseers to the mines were English and didn’t get their hands dirty at all. My two Italian great-grandfathers (and many Eastern Europeans) went down into the mines; those two great-grandfathers died of black lung. There was a definite difference in how the various nationalities and skin colors were treated.