Canuk Greg from Ottawa, Canada

Hi Greg,

It's still baseball season for some of us in the USA. Particularly the New England Nation rooting for their Red Sox.

BTW, that is a beautiful picture of Ottawa.

Regards, Joe

Hey Greg : Thanks

did I tell you that my cousin's son and his lady have been on holidays in Canada, and visited your fair city. they are currently in South America now..

BTW. thanks for the music: Theme for a Summer Place I have that on a CD by Acker Bilk. looking forward to the warmer weather here.
a touch of summer to hit us here in Perth tomorrow, the expected temp of 32C / 90F

Hi Greg! I have not been on the Sudoku site in over a week now, even to do the puzzles!! That is a world record for me as usually (when I am not traveling!) I had been checking the site numerous times a day in between other activities! I am really busy tonight getting ready to leave on another trip tomorrow. Jane from St. Simons has invited Rob & me to visit there this weekend. She has made all kinds of nice plans including dinner at her house, tennis, & a Brunswick Stew Festival (Stewbilee - clever, huh!) in Brunswick! On Sun. we'll drive north to Savannah to pick up Celia from Toronto at the airport & take her with us to our beach house at Fripp Island, SC. I just couldn't leave without answering your nice note on my page. I will never completely leave the site because I will always wonder what's going on with the many wonderful people I have met there -including you! I just hope I don't get so far behind that I lose track of what's happening. I am trying to send notes now & then to personal pages & not spending so much time on EASY. Maybe you could do a summary of the week's major events now & then just like they do the mini reports in the newspaper on the soap operas! It looks like your page is Sudoku Central with 1443 pages!! You're such a good guy - thanks for writing to me. Good bye for a little while........

Hi Greg. How are you. I have not been around on Sudoku much and just got your message. I am fine. Been super busy with Flickr and have just become a moderator on one of the groups!!!!
Do you still add your photos there?
How's things in Canada? You are in Fall/Autumn now if I am correct. Wow you have so many pages of messages now. Please forgive me for not dropping in much. I will try to be a bit better in the future. Chat to you again soon I hope.

Hey Greg - I actually have some of james t original albums - Sweet Baby James/Mudslide Slim, but i have no turntable! a sign of the times i guess...this has to be one of his best songs...
take care
x

"Lots of time" is definitely a relative term these days. This has been an unbelievable year so far. I have never had less time or felt more worn out in my entire career. Most days begin before 6 and often end at midnight or later. I am getting to old to do that anymore.
BUT, I have a great group of kids this year - that is the only thing saving me.
The family is doing well - m-i-l is slowly fading, but that is to be expected. Jeanie is getting more time for herself since we put her mother in the Alzheimer's facility, so that is good.
Two kids at home right now with a wedding next June!
Thanks for writing - I am soon off to read myself to sleep.

Hi Greg. Do I get some sort of kudos by comments getting to a third page? Still, that's nowhere near 37 pages. Does this mean that my life, too is meaningless?

I write about all sorts of things that affect people and mostly for the general public who might be interested about what Buddhism might have to say about their dilemmas. I've addressed relationships, pain, addiction as well as the usual meditation techniques (for non-meditators). But it has been a while since I looked directly at stress and depression, so thanks for the idea.

My own interest right now is looking at the similarities and differences between the Buddhist teachings on emptiness and the Christian mystical aim of becoming one with the Divine Spirit.

Thanks Greg,

i'm safe and sound. as soon as we got the line the first thing i did was to open this website, and i'm really happy to receive the messages from my sudoku friends.What a wonderful world Gath has created for us.
for the all friends who cares for me from the other side of the world.

Thanks for the help with my photos. I'll have to wait until my oldest daughter comes over to use my computer and ask what program she used for posting. Crystal uses win,pro. at work and sometimes we can figure how some of these things work, but I sure miss my brother. He work for HP making chips.

Thank you my friend, for putting Cutting Crew's song on for me.

Greg, When I first looked at the parliament building I thought I was looking at one of Disney's castles.
beautiful.

Hi Greg,I left a bear message with your bear!

Good morning to you Greg. Thanks for the welcome. Nice pictures you have and thanks for the goodies.

Hey Greg, good to be back home, thanks for the message and taking onto my third page!! Well, I have to admit that I was cheering for England , firstly, because we were outnumbered in the pub (rugby supporters are BIG GUYS), secondly, my daughter lives and works in England and loves it there and lastly SA stands a better chance against England in the final. Playing France in their country would be a difficult one! Take care

Hi Greg thanks for dropping in and cheering me up. I can't believe how many pages you have you might have to start a site of your own

ppssssttt greg..... is it snowing up there yet? I know you want it to hold off for awhile. It's raining buckets here. Rain to snow conversion, we would have about 18 inches of heavy wet snow on the ground already. No end in sight, which makes the kids restless. Talk to ya soon.

Greg - thanks very much for your warm welcome and the low-fat delicious pastry!!

I posted a reply on my page, but believe this is the best way to do it (i.e. reply on your page).

thank you for your support. We will be Ok, and I know that we will survive this, its more the principle of what is happening that gets me angry.
Hope all is well in your side of the world.

Thanks for the visit! I didn't know beaver tails came in double chocolate fudge - yum! I've only had them plain in powdered sugar. Here's a traditional white cowboy hat for your next visit to our fair and friendly city.

What a silly question - I'm supporting the winning team!! Cheers

Thanks, man. It only took a mere 5 months to get to page 2 over by me. Maybe someday I'll be awesome like you
Things on my end are okay. My short lived employment has ended and now I'm back to raising my kids. Looking forward to winter and the snow. More for my kids than for me, as my poor green machine only got about 65 miles on it last year. Take Care, and I'll catch ya soon!

Oh Yeah, and I sent in a couple pics to the parents page. Thanks!

Thank you very much for Beth's birthday wishes, Greg.
She read them all this morning and was most touched.

Greg
just popping over to say thank you for the birthday greetings for Tim.
I read on Angie (wisconsin) page that you have some health issues. hope that you are okay and sending lots of good wishes your way.
take care
cheers
rosemary

Thanks for the birthday greetings Greg! Just an hour and 40 minutes of my birthday left ... but I think I'll be heading to bed before midnight! It's been a good day with the Sydney Sudokuists Bronte Brunch as well!

More on close encounters with wild-life - such as you with your bear. I have experienced several encounters that leave me with lasting memories, and sometimes I am also left with the feeling the animal, or whatever, has deliberately introduced itself to me. (eg with Golden-Eagle; Red Kangaroo; Wasps and Butterflies; Red-backed Spider; Mukadah (tropical centpede); Scorpion; Cobra; Sting-Ray; etc). Of course a close encounter with a 'dangerous' animal always leaves an impact, but it is the curcumstances surrounding the situations that interests me. They generally only do this when I am travelling alone. I have never been harmed during any such encounter.

Thanks Greg for your kind thoughts on the death of my husband, Geoff. Our Sudoku family is a great one to have at any time and its a family of choice. It's an honour to be a member, to have so many friends across the world who can share in our good times, have a laugh with us and also be there for us when we need guidance, comfort or strength when times are tough. Thank you for being a part of that family. Thanks for the strength. Lynne

greg thank you so much for your kind words.

Just stopping by to say hello. Love the youtube. I have to be quick as you change them quite often. I have to remember to do them as I forget about them. Just got back from my hols so I'm nice and relaxed now which is good. Hope all is well, take care x

Thanks for the birthday wishes, Greg! Nice to know you're thinking of me..nice surprise!

Greg, Thank you for the You Tube!

Good song Greg, haven't heard that one in a while.

While I'm here, I have a new YouTube, also. Another one I did, check it out.

Thanks Greg - the whole of South Africa is celebrating - what a wonderful positive happening!! Take care

Hey CG...Just wanted to say hello...all is well with Sully and myself, and surely hope things are great with you too.

Whoa, alot of comments...how do you keep up?! I helped myself to one of your cold ones...since you weren't here...hope you enjoy the brownie i left. My daughter baked them this am. Enjoy your clean air up there...it's smokey here...cough, cough. Cheers....

G'day Greg, I knew you would be one of the nice people to send me a message about Liz and you didn't let me down. Thanks, mate. She is getting along very well, but taking her time. It's more or less left up to her how she manages her new implant although she does have to attend a weekly session for about 6 weeks so it can be fine-tuned for her. It must be hard to adapt to as she is happy to turn it off at the end of the day and have a bit of "peace", she says. All this noise all the time must be overwhelming. She has made remarks about some noises that really irritate her and one of them is just the rustling of a paper bag. She has never really heard this before and she says it's just a horrible sound. It's all going to take a lot of getting used to and it's probably a good thing we live in a quiet country town and not the noise-polluted city. Cheers and best wishes, Kate

for the compliment on my photographs taken in London! Your question on the Currie Cup: It is a South African Provincial Championship that started in 1889. The first trophy was presented in 1892, donated by Sir Donald Currie. Extremely popular! Our neighbour is Fourie du Preez, also the scrum half for SA team and the photograph was taken at his house after our local team, BLUE BULLS shared the cup with the Cheetahs from another province. Tomorrow is the final in the current series and unfortunately our local team did not make it to the final - BUT the reason is - too many of our players are in the SA national team!!!! Take care, Helena

Hi, GREG.
I am very pleased to stop by your page to say Hello and to enjoy myself by your beautiful recent photos.
Hope you are very well.
My best wishes to all of you.