2nd annual newcastle satan clause parade

i remember last year

where my head was - where my heart was

and here i am again - or is it still

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we got hooked up with hot chocolate and an absolutely delicious raspberry chocolate coffee and waited for them to blow some stuff up

you gotta love a parade where they blow stuff up

which reminds me of a story - i used to have an official government license to detonate real fireworks - but then there was that incident at the local park a couple years back - it's generally acknowledged by those who know me and those who were there that night that i am a dangerous man around things that explode and shouldn't be trusted - but really - that's another story for another time - so much for that then

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my outlaws were at the parade

and the good news?

breanna got to share the parade with her little cousins

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...first prize - redneck division

sweet tractor - hay wagon - a couple kids - some yard toys - a few tacky christmas lights - a noisy generator - the kids plastic play house from the backyard - and one of those air filled snow globe units from canadian tire DUCT TAPED to the top of the playhouse

ta da!!! instant parade float?

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"give us the finger john!!!"

that's what i hear as my mom's boss goes by in the parade

my favorite conservative - john o'toole - one of few conservatives convincingly re-elected in the last electoral purging of this province - so all nasty gestures aside - you know he's doing a good job and we respect him anyway - i never had a favorite conservative before johnny rotten - he's harmless unlike our former mayor but if i were that balloon guy i'd watch out anyway

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