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The thrift stores are a flurry of activity today as Guelphites clammer to pull off their creepy costumes for the first big, pre daylight savings time 10-31 in my memory. Yes folks, our clocks have yet to fall back meaning it will be light longer than ever tonight.

So here's the question of the day? Will parents buckle to the incessant pleas of their ghostly brood and hit the streets before sunset or try to restrain the eager alter egos until dark of night?

So you know, I've got my money is on the buckle factor.

AND - thanks to the 'it's happening faster than we ever imagined global warming' we will also enjoy unseasonably warm temperatures.

How scary is that. Boo Hoo.

So then, and on a more cheerful, helpful Blog Guelph note, if you happen to be one of the poor misfits that didn't scoop a mullet wig at VAVA Village or mistakenly dumped the Hallowe'en costume bag during spring cleaning, today's series of photographic brilliance will provide you with some easy solutions to your tricky day.

Sue Richards

Click any one of the photos to visit that photographer's Flickr photostream. You'll be treated.

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Sometimes an exaggerated look will do the trip. That and a well placed scar.

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One of the easier costumes to pull together - coat yourself in attitude.

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If carving is not your forte, consider this value added alternative.

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Works every time.....

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'Tis a spooky time of year. Tonight is Devil's Night, tomorrow Halloween and the streets of downtown Guelph will no doubt be swarmed by costumed crazies.
But lest you think that's all that's going on in the city centre, think again.
There are a plethora of good times to be had.
Just take a look at the following 5 pics to see some of what the core has in store for you.

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Just when you thought it couldn't get any better, along comes Edifying Edifice. A precursor to the Guelph Festival of Moving Media, this special event sees ten local media artists transform downtown Guelph with site-specific video installations over five nights. Curated by the brilliant Scott McGovern.

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GIFF - Guelph Festival of Moving Media begins November 2. Now in it's 5th year.

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You can also have the wonderful pleasure of hearing the sultry voice and musical stylings of our very own flickergurl, Accordian Chick, a.k.a. Meredith Grant at The Albion tonight.

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It's your last chance to Dig-In Downtown.
Don't miss this opportunity to feast on a great deal.
Tonight and tomorrow night only!

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The Dalai Lama is in Canada this week - apparently meeting with our man Steve and the boys sometime today. It was a nice relief to hear this news broadcast between the regular grim reports of death, destruction and despair that the media feed our bleeding ears.

I especially found pleasure in one short clip that CBC Radio One ran of the chirping voice of the Dalai Lama reporting that he is now an honourary citizen of Canada - followed by the most delightfully love filled giggle that you could ever hope to hear from a person.

The man is full to the brim with love.

And so too is Blog Guelph on this fine last Monday of October.

Love
Love
Love

{giggle}

All we need is love.

Sue Richards

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Friday's Gem of the Day

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No, we haven't gone completely bonkers today, but we do confess to loving words as well as pictures. Pictures and words, that's Blog Guelph in a nutshell.
Our incredibly talented photographer, Peter Kelly, has nicely captured an historically crazy word.
Asylum - late Middle English via Latin from Greek 'asulon' - refuge, from 'asulos' - inviolable.

Each and every day I receive an email shedding light on the origin and usage of a single word.
Whether or not this improves my word power is debatable but it is fascinating in an oh so nerdly way.
Take a look for yourself, A.Word.A.Day.

and while you're at it, click on these Guelph specific pics....just see where they can take you.

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Cinema - shortened from 19th century French 'cinematogaphe', in turn from Greek 'kinema' or 'kinemat' - movement.

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Vinyl - mid 19th century. From Latin, vinum (wine).

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Now here's an odd yet oddly comforting word familiar to us all here at Blog Guelph...
If you say it fast three times you'll sound like a dog barking.

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Welcome to Wednesday.

Today's series of posts give way to some well photographed animals. Since much of Guelph's history is based in agriculture - what with G-town being the home to The Ontario Veterinary College and all - AND because OVC just happens to be the oldest veterinary college in Canada and the United States, it seemed fitting and fair to let the critters have their day in the blogospotlight.

OVC was originally located in Toronto in 1862, moved to Guelph in 1922 and became a founding college of the University of Guelph in 1964. To review Key Dates in the History of the Ontario Veterinary College, click on the link.

To see other cows, cats and dogs previously posted on Blog Guelph, click on the hyper-linked word.

Moo to you.

Sue Richards

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If you want a stable friendship, get a horse. ~ Author Unknown

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Children are for people who can't have dogs. ~ Author Unknown

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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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All is not butter that comes from the cow. ~ Proverb

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Today Blog Guelph takes a gander at the magical, mystical, marvelous Number 3.
Everywhere you look, even in our photo pools, the number three seems to rear it's significant head.
trio...triad...triplet... triptych...trilogy...tricycle...triplicate...triumverate...
it goes on and on and on...

So behold (and click!) a smattering of images and reflections on the first odd prime number:

Pythagoras called three the perfect number, basically because it expressed all - beginning, middle, and end.

When something happens three times, there is a pattern.

Earth is the third planet in its local Solar System.

In the constellation Orion, his belt is made up of 3 stars in a row.

Third time's the charm.

A hat-trick in sports is associated with succeeding at anything three times in three consecutive attempts.

Now, on the count of three...

-Downtown Lynn-

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The 3 Primary Colours our brilliant photobug, Firda, has captured are
Red, Green and Blue.

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3 R's: Reading ~ 'Riting ~ 'Rithmetic.

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Three appears regularly in fairytales and mythology.
Think 3 blind mice, 3 little piggies, mama bear, papa bear and baby bear.
Don't even get me started on Freud....Superego anyone?

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Clearly, three's a crowd in this case...

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Close encounters of the Third Kind.

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For the last nine years, my book keeper, Sharon Smith, regularly came to my home office to do my books. Always punctual, I would have her coffee ready to pour, paper work organized and my prehistoric iMac cranked on in anticipation.

Like a tradition, we would start the monthly visit pretty much the same way every time. Sharon would settle in the office chair and gently pat the computers dusty head - I would offer up specific accounting needs that I had identified and we'd both comment on the state of the universe. Then I would leave her to the task of coaxing data into the belly of the beast of 'artificial intelligence'.

When Sharon didn't appear last Thursday morning, I immediately started to worry. It was 9:15 and in the entire time we'd worked together I had never known her to be late.

I called her home and left a message.

When her sister called back a short time later to tell me the sad news of Sharon's sudden death earlier in the week, I was stunned to say the least. Now I'm deeply saddened.

Today's series of several images is dedicated to my friend and wonderful book keeper Sharon Smith. She saw me through some magnificent highs and excruciating lows over our years together - always steady as eddy. Indeed, she helped managed many of Guelph's artists and community group finances and guided even more befuddled people through 'tax madness' each year. Sharon loved dancing, singing and being outdoors by the shore of any body of water.

She is and will continue to be greatly missed. Gilchrist Funeral Home Visitation and Memorial service details are here.

Sue Richards

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