Monday 2:32 PM

 A rainy holiday. I learned it is also a holiday in Spain.

Today, Monday, October 12, 2026, is Spain’s National Day, known as the Fiesta Nacional de España or Día de la Hispanidad. 

Here’s what the holiday commemorates:

Historical significance: October 12, 1492, when Christopher Columbus reached the Americas while sailing under the Spanish Crown.

National celebrations: Madrid hosts an official ceremony and a military parade attended by the King of Spain and other dignitaries.

Religious significance: October 12 is also the feast of Our Lady of the Pillar (Nuestra Señora del Pilar), especially celebrated in Zaragoza, where she is venerated as the city's patroness. 

Viva Christopher Columbus! He brought Christianity to North America!

Canadian Thanksgiving Day 5:34 AM

 No rest for the wicked.

A silver dollar that is made of nickel.

Don't say: 'That person gets on my nerves.' Think: ‘That person sanctifies me.'

Erickson

 It’s cold.

I posted this on WeChat & got funny responses.

A valley between Minnedosa and Erickson

 I had to stop and take some selfies.

I asked one local in Erickson.  He didn’t know if the valley had a name.

The Drive to Erickson

 

Not a sunny day.

Annoying Potholes

 

These potholes near the North Hill Tim Horton’s have not been repaired because of a Jurisdictional dispute.

Sunday 9:00 AM Mass

 

Sunday 7:53 AM

 Tomorrow is Canadian Thanksgiving.  When I was in China, it would often pass by without my noticing because it wasn’t celebrated in the UK, Australia and China; and because it was celebrated on a different day in the USA. Though I did, every once in a while, confront a USAer about it.

Sunday 6:37 AM

 It may rain today, or so I have heard.

Paradox: to live we must die.

Anything that does not lead you to God is a

hindrance. Root it out and throw it far from you.

2450

 

And the streak goes on..