The USA is experiencing a drought, California the worst hit & I can not imagine it will improve any this summer...   Do you know how many WATER PARKS California has?   lol  Is it just me? Is it not common sense- to not WASTE WATER when you don't have it to waste to begin with?   Water..  if some have it their way - we will have to pay for every drop we drink and use. 
Moreover, under NAFTA, Canada is also precluded from denying US investors and service providers the same access to Canadian water it allows Canadian companies, communities, and residents.

• In a draft letter to Congress, the U.S. administration has outlined more than 40 goals for NAFTA, including the right to impose tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports; removing barriers to U.S. agricultural exports, which could endanger Canadian supply management; and changing the dispute-resolution rules.

The world is running out of accessible water.
The UN reports that demand for water will increase by 55% over the next 15 years.
By that time, global water resources will meet only 60% of the world’s demand.
This is a recipe for disaster.
The water crisis could affect as many as 7 billion people by 2075.
Africa, India, the Middle East, and Australia are in crisis but so are “water rich” countries.
In China, since 1990, over half the rivers have disappeared.
In Brazil, there is terrible drought in Sao Paulo due to the destruction of the Amazon and the disruption of the mighty “flying rivers” that carry massive volumes of water vapours released by the rainforest on air currents to the South.
Parts of North America are also in crisis, including many US states. The Ogallala aquifer is being depleted. A major international study on groundwater mining says that the Great Lakes could actually disappear in 80 years.
If you think this impossible, consider the once mighty Aral Sea, the fourth largest lake in the world, now all but gone from over- extraction.

• NOW you know.. research
  The next time you are thirsty LOOK at your gass of water & thank God for it.
  It is our greatest lurury afforded by fewer & fewer daily.. 

BOYCOTT Nestle - listen to Rick Mercer Canadians- trillions of litres of water every day- they TAKE.    We may be a FREE country - OUR WATER IS NOT!!

With LOTs of LOVE   -as I drink my glass of water. Thank God.
Georgia 

P.S

Luckily, I DID not look at one photo of Trump - thankfully I was able to create this from my imagination, reading a current article in the Globe and noticed they don't call him President Trump...  'Mr. Trump.  I made his hands too big.. next time.
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New Bear Tomorrow.

Please Read.
It's good for your brain & you learn something every time, your vocabulary increases and YOUR imagination takes charge! Unlike Television your OWN mind creates the visions in our brains and it is a WORK OUT. USE it or LOSE it. I'm going to encourage reading.  I'll admit- my imagination did visualize parts of this book which were... incredibly SAD.  
At the end of the world.  By Lawrence Millman

Storm picked up this book at one of the Mycological Society meetings, the Author was there- I wished I had gone! I glanced at the book on his desk read the inside jacket and thought .. hmmm - this sounds really interesting- wow & realized it is a true story- as it implies on the cover Georgia.. duh.

I could NOT put this short, informative book down- I loved everything about it - including the style! I've already said to Storm - I'm getting another of his books! If you want to read a really - simple, gripping, hard to believe story-  over  feathering religion -how interesting - why do we allow each other do what we do?  The Author writes it  at the same time 9/11 happens - it is easy to understand why even at this TIME - the Inuit people struggle with what happened with the REST of the world.
 
What Canadian youngster - does NOT remember Nonook of the North? It was mandatory for every grade school class at one point- lol - I still can hear the narrators voice in my head.. Nanook (you'll learn few things * TRUE Inuit words!) Mushrooms & MURDER..  one of the first ever 'documentaries'.   This was IMO a terrific book full of facts, trivia and relatable events NOW, one moment I'd be snickering at  relatable google frustrations, the next in shock at what I learned, in particular with our own Canadian Government. 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4kOIzMqso0  :   Watch Nanook of the North on YOU TUBE

A book a month - I'll read & share!  
What are you reading? Use it or  Lose it.

With love
​G

Remember my trip to the museum with my son?  ;) 
I do, I think of it fondly & often.  It was a wonderful day full of ART & artifacts, birds, rocks, drugs (shaman's tools) - it was amusing, entertaining & enlightening!
WELL worth a visit!!
It was the Canadian Artist I remembered to research much later though, Rex Woods in particular &  it is how I came across the ‘beaver art - It inspired me on countless levels. 
Think about what it stood for.    It was one of those ‘Pokes from God’  literally I was working on a different cartoon idea when - ZAP, and the new idea wanted to be drawn first - lol -  it’c called INSPIRATION'.  A good way on this Good Friday for me to think of it.

*I believed when I drew it,  Canada would allow for  small privately owned and operated dispensaries. What happened to the Canadian Dream or as adults and allowing us FREEDOM of expression & to  make our own choices in this country?

I miss the days of  working at small privately owned galleries in Canadian snowstorms…  lol. I would walk around and look at every tiny detail for hours on end, then read magazines, write (no cell phones then) my friends letters- hee hee.
We all have great memories  ‘Growing up Canadian' in country as young as ours.
 
                            Canada is 150 year old this year - so much news.. 
Don’t assume, I’m not thinking of http://www.warmuseum.ca/the-battle-of-vimy-ridge/ missing my dad, thinking of other  family I am missing this time of year. 
I am actually thinking more of who is still here - like my own son, young family  & many others like:  Avery, Mia, Jack, Lilly, Hudson, Tom, Sam, Mike, Ashley, Tim, Lori, Taylor, Sophia, Jackson, Emma, Liam, Adam & Eve - ARE you getting my point?  

What next?  & IF you can’t have a cannabis bake shop - then what is to prevent ALL privately, small owned bake shops for all the same reasons? Home day cares - adios, small Pizza shops- chow Bello, retailers..  you can NOT discriminate against one and not the other. Not one small business is safe,  how many have we already lost to major retailers?

Hotdogs & trampolines  killed more CHILDREN than cannabis ever has.   Prove me wrong.  Do you understand my point?  

Next will it be: ONLY  'these brands may sell in our major chains..'  sigh.
 If you're going to kill this country then at least do it slowly.     Frig  
*not directed at Justin...   corporate greed' yes.
I wrote before - BIG LP's will probably win in the end anyway, as most will flock to them simply out of ease & they have bigger advertising dollars. At lest  people had an opportunity to  try.  There are so many talented  Canadians who deserve an opportunity to be  in this INDUSTRY.

Cananbis is an industry like every other & the hardest working in it have been the growers.  I have witnessed it first hand many times. IF not for them, we would not be having this conversation.  There goes 'our farmers again..  '
Not to mention other not Canadian owned companies will be making a lot of money.
Facts to ponder as you prepare for your first  un-educated “POT purchase.”

What is next?

NOT ALL who are rich are wrong or evil - far from it, we’ve been blessed to meet all sorts on this journey- although not wide my ‘variety’ of friends has been - everyone is the same - no matter  the pocket books.  Nice people &  not very nice people (imo).  Money usually had little to do with it.  This is more about profit at the moment than keeping just out of the criminals hands.  ‘       Which Criminals’ are we  talking about here? 
No wonder our LCBO wants a part.  It is the biggest 'booze monopoly' in the world.  I had no idea... correct me if I am wrong- I heard that on a pod cast the other evening.  

BTW my love, appreciation for respect for Justin Trudeau has not wavered, I know he is educated on cannabis & is far more concerned with people than plants at the moment.
As should WE ALL BE.  
I STILL have faith in the Canadian PEOPLE to:
         KEEP ALL Canadians  BUSY

 demand  what is right for ALL Canadians!  Not just the Cannabis educated Canadians, ALL Canadians  - For Generations to come - wether you grow or no.  Consume or no.
​The 'Dream/opportunity to succeed'  in this country is a human right for ALL Canadians. 


With Love
have faith
Georgia 
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My 4/20 T-Idea was inspired by another Canadiana, long time a go :

​Tomorrow 'Dorothy from Oz...'

Just home after the weekend at Langdon Hall,  I'm looking over my photos feeling  calmer, rested and rest assured. . How could I not?  Surrounded by Luxury & LOVE  a celebration of Faith, Love & Hope for  beautiful, tiny baby girl who absolutely will rock this world.  lol   
She's off to a fantastic start with her loving parents - awesome big sister, other friends and family who all love her.   The baby has a thing for glasses.. makes me laugh just thinking of it now,  she has already touched my heart & my sons. 

I heard laughter ALL evening - long after I opted for my DEEP soak tub and my custom bath Bomb! With cannabis in it,  OF course. Surrounded also by our Cannabis family in a way...  a family introduced to us  since before the  first EXPO.   I have become friends  with several I've met over  the years  & Storm has made good friends of his own, who have watched him grow into the young man he is today.  Hugged many times over, Oh My Gosh it was so good to see so many familiar faces.  The meal - incredible, I can't think of it now- or I will drool on my keyboard. We made a few new friends but best of all  I had a drawing session with a lovely, imaginative,  talented young lady.  It was, I must admit the HIGHlite of my weekend.  Watch out- a budding new artist on the horizon!! 

I learned a few things...  Langdon Hall has an incredible menu!!
& by far the most comfortable bed I have ever slept on... the next day several people commented on the BEDS.  Chris was another friend of Storms I met and he constantly had me wondering - is there anything this guy does not know about? It's a warm fuzzy  feeling when a mom  witnesses her own son enjoying time with friends who clearly care for him.  
Storm & I  walked the house & property, right down to the basement, we learned of the incredible history and looked at  all the photos. The guy with the 'push mower'- cracked me up.  I would like to see the property in the summer. It was a weekend I won't forget - The Heather Cooper - painting  - I could have got lost  in  for hours,  all the art was  magnificent.

We felt blessed to be a part of the day- to be invited to celebrate in the Baptism of a baby girl alone is enough, the rest.. all icing on the cake.    With fondant cannabis leaves!  
Real cannabis leaves in every centrepiece.  That being said - It was by far the 'classiest' Baptism I have ever been to.  Hee hee hee!  The weekend was as it started at mass... truly blessed.

​Feather YES!! More icing on the cake.. the next morning the talk was all about cannabis being announced: LEGAL in Canada by Canada Day 2018   ​For all those that say 'I'll believe it when I see it...  Believe it.    

At some point during the weekend - surrounded by such Regal beauty - I'm sure I heard - The King himself exclaim... 'Cannabis Growers once thought of as Criminals will start to overnight - turn into Rockstars...      just look at the stock market.'

The sun, the moon & the truth.    Thank God & Great Growers!
I am blessed to know a few of the best!
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Feathers to all who ever doubted.

With Love
​Georgia

Tomorrow:  BIG news! I've been hired.. & more.

Thanks everyone who wishes Us well on FB an other social media. Like everyone else  I like photos - especially with my handsome son ;) - We might never get here again..  I want to thank him. Me:  "Storm, stand here! I want a photo! .. Here.. Over there.. "  lol  I'm like that with everyone - hee hee..  As you are aware - it's difficult to get a good photo.
Storm captured me when calm, strolling, laughing and  not during a twitch.  
This one in the garden was meant to be.. It took 3 tries.. this was the 'end photo' so
​- It's ALL good - thank God.  
Storm just kept taking photos of us and it made me laugh.  I LOVE my son.
He reminded  me .. just keep snapping- you'll come out o.k on the other side... I promise.