from a "Newbie"...
After a week of being like a kid in a candy shop for the first time.... I love this place! At the risk of being redundant, Thanks to all of you who make this site possible and keep it so vibrant. One question I have though... Do you think Gord ever stops in? I would have to think he'd be curious of what we thought and were saying. I have no plausible explanation of why I didn't find this place sooner, if it were a poisonous snake I'd be a dead man a hundred times over!! |
from a "Newbie"...
After a week of being like a kid in a candy shop for the first time.... I love this place! At the risk of being redundant, Thanks to all of you who make this site possible and keep it so vibrant. One question I have though... Do you think Gord ever stops in? I would have to think he'd be curious of what we thought and were saying. I have no plausible explanation of why I didn't find this place sooner, if it were a poisonous snake I'd be a dead man a hundred times over!! |
Gord does not have a computer, does not use a computer. But, I am sure his kids stop in and so do the people related to his management.
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I'm sure he at least knows about the site; has heard of it at some point or another.
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I checked in from time to time while I was on vacation and was so happy to read all the updates on GL's health and reviews of his current concerts. Thank you all! :) |
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I checked in from time to time while I was on vacation and was so happy to read all the updates on GL's health and reviews of his current concerts. Thank you all! :) |
Me three! :D
I also want to say thanks to the site owner and moderator(s) who have created and maintained this site. I've really enjoyed this great resource the last few months and all of ya folks have been so nice and knowledgeable as well. |
I'm not the owner (but I play one on TV!) LOL! :D
On their behalf,I will say your very welcome. Just like all of you,I found this site by surprise ("much to my surprise" ). ;) I actually was still not very internet savvy in 2002 and just for fun thought,I'll try this in a yahoo search but I'm sure Gordon Lightfoot wouldn't register anything. Wrong! :redface: I peeked in for a couple of months and finally in Feb. '03,got the nerve to post a message and finally register officially sometime later. As for Gord's knowledge of the site,yes he does know about it. In recent shows he's thanked "the web people" for keeping his name out there,or such. Hope you all are staying around. See you next time! :) |
Hey Bro10 - I wanted to say welcome, then noticed in your profile you'd already posted 20-odd times, and likely have had the welcome wagon roled out already!
If not, or even if so, welcome ! This (corfid) is a great group. This is definately the best site, the most members, guaranteed daily activity, and extremely knowledgable constituency. Knowledge of Lightfoot here is astounding ! We have everything from idol-worshippers of Gord's, to fans on the long haul like me, listening to him for 30+ years, to teenagers and other new fans happily proving quality music is timeless and ageless. And, we have people who've been fans in excess of 40 years, many are retired, semi-retired or getting close, and enjoy the benefit of being able to travel to concerts of Gord's just about anywhere, and meet as friends. We're not talking bohemian-style micro-bus flower-power traveling Lightheads LOL, (although those are cool, too!). Rather, people who have enjoyed long full careers that are able to attend concerts as a hobby. Now that's a tough life ! I've made many good friends here, people that really care about YOU. And just about everyone seems like an instant acquaintance that share an appreciation of Gord - the man and his music. Good to have you. - geo Steve |
We're glad you are enjoying the site - along with Wayne's site and Val's site I think all things Lightfoot are covered!
The message board here keeps us all connected... other great sites: www.lightfoot.ca and www.gordonlightfoot.com Char |
We're glad you are enjoying the site - along with Wayne's site and Val's site I think all things Lightfoot are covered!
The message board here keeps us all connected... other great sites: www.lightfoot.ca and www.gordonlightfoot.com Char |
Gord is certainly aware of this group as at several concerts he has made reference to us as "his internet people". Whether he reads any of the postings, or has certain ones brought to his attention, I have no idea.
Gord is a humble man and perhaps our interest and devotion sometimes bordering on worship embarrasses him. (after all, for some people Gord and God differ by only one letter!) Several years ago while performing at Massey Hall, he was gracious enough to permit a private meeting with his "internet people". Couldn't wash my hand for several days after shaking his hand that had penned so many musical gems. Yuri |
Not to change the subject, but I floated the idea past my wife, of a trip North next year, to Massey Hall for a GL concert. She was rather receptive, much to my surprise!
I've never been to Canada... but this idea is growing on me like corfid!!! |
Hi Peter and welcome aboard this very tall ship. Not being that different than you I remember the "newbie" days as many of us do as well. This is a warm comfort zone to hang out for sure and it's because of the music that it's all happened. The songs were written and heard; the audience reacted with warm appreciation and this forum gives us all the opportunity to express our feelings, have them shared with others and the possibilities seem endless. I don't know why but every time I start writing about Gordon Lightfoot, the points I try to make always end up with words from his song titles. Time for me play a song or two. Hope to meet you and your wife at one of the concerts. Sincerely, Ron Jones.
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Hey Peter - if you're planning on heading up here then you better plan for May 2008 - Gord usually has an 18 month break in between Massey gigs...
May in Toronto is SO much nicer than November... other than the concerts and Lightfoot and Heffernan's birthdays that is... lol |
Hey Peter - if you're planning on heading up here then you better plan for May 2008 - Gord usually has an 18 month break in between Massey gigs...
May in Toronto is SO much nicer than November... other than the concerts and Lightfoot and Heffernan's birthdays that is... lol |
Thanks for the heads-up info, Charlene. May does sound better than November for sure.
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I guess the bottom line is; anytime of the year is a good time for a Gordon Lightfoot Concert. ;) :) [ October 14, 2006, 08:56: Message edited by: Jesse -Joe ] |
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I guess the bottom line is; anytime of the year is a good time for a Gordon Lightfoot Concert. ;) :) [ October 14, 2006, 08:56: Message edited by: Jesse -Joe ] |
Any time is a good time - you're right about that...but mid-November in Toronto can be bleak and cold...the trees are pretty much bare by then and if you hate being cold like I do, then autumn, even as gorgeous as it can be just means winter is making it's way again. And THAT is something I can do without!
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Any time is a good time - you're right about that...but mid-November in Toronto can be bleak and cold...the trees are pretty much bare by then and if you hate being cold like I do, then autumn, even as gorgeous as it can be just means winter is making it's way again. And THAT is something I can do without!
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Oh come on Char.
The lake is blue, the sky is gray and the leaves have turned to gold. The wild geese will be on their way the weather's much too cold. When the muskie and the old trout too have all gone down to rest. We will be returning to the things that we love best. Gord and cold weather... yup think so. |
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The wild geese will be on their way the weather's much too cold. QUOTE] heck - even the CANADA geese leave town! lolol I loves my Lightfoot but i HATES the cold... Only for Lightfoot do I walk brown and gritty Yonge st. in the winter... |
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The wild geese will be on their way the weather's much too cold. QUOTE] heck - even the CANADA geese leave town! lolol I loves my Lightfoot but i HATES the cold... Only for Lightfoot do I walk brown and gritty Yonge st. in the winter... |
Only for Lightfoot do I walk brown and gritty Yonge st. in the winter...
Funny, Char, that tune came to mind when I started kicking this idea around, "the streets are brown and gritty" part that is. |
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for ther first 3 years or so of my living here in New Jersey my step father in law Bill would take me most days to the nearby Warinanco Park for my healthy walk . As you can see there is a splendid circular path around the lake a very pleasant 30 minute walk. Unfortunately most of Canada's flippin' Geese tended to treat the lake area as their personal restroom resulting it being almost impossible to walk on the path without getting their defecations thickly encrusted in ones soles. I miss those walks and the lake and even the sodden geese because in 2003 old soldier Bill departed this life http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/4...inanco1ja1.jpg Aerial view courtesy of http://www.local..live.com |
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for ther first 3 years or so of my living here in New Jersey my step father in law Bill would take me most days to the nearby Warinanco Park for my healthy walk . As you can see there is a splendid circular path around the lake a very pleasant 30 minute walk. Unfortunately most of Canada's flippin' Geese tended to treat the lake area as their personal restroom resulting it being almost impossible to walk on the path without getting their defecations thickly encrusted in ones soles. I miss those walks and the lake and even the sodden geese because in 2003 old soldier Bill departed this life http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/4...inanco1ja1.jpg Aerial view courtesy of http://www.local..live.com |
Yeah...and let's not even talk about what those %!&^!$&? geese and their distant fowl (apologies to Sir John) cousins have done to Jenney('s) Pond in Plymouth MA or the one that was loose in the hotel room in Keene NH. ;)
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hey timetraveler, some might call it fate... but not me.
All things happen for a reason... terribly deep thoughts coming on... I had better pull back!!! |
We have a number of them "winter over" at the local Montezuma preserve, especially as our winters have been (relatively) mild in the last few years. And we've had a mated pair making themselves at home in our neighborhood in the last couple of years.
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We have a number of them "winter over" at the local Montezuma preserve, especially as our winters have been (relatively) mild in the last few years. And we've had a mated pair making themselves at home in our neighborhood in the last couple of years.
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We have them too, in Southwestern Wisconsin. Lots of them. They hang around for quite a long time in the spring and fall, when migrating through. I love to see them first come in the spring, as that means summer's on the way and they're heading back home to Canada, but I hate to see them in early fall, because it means they're getting the heck out of Dodge before winter sets in. They're awesome--their honking gives me, pardon the pun, goose bumps every time, and to see them flying in formation is really something. If I were Canadian, I'd be very proud to have them as a symbol of my country.
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I agree tt, many times I wish I had wings too. Makes me think of Gords, "If Children Had Wings." I guess he meant they would be angels?
Boy just think about it, 'Honey', were you thinking of taking the car to go to Massey Hall? Forget it, well just fly there... :D :) |
I agree tt, many times I wish I had wings too. Makes me think of Gords, "If Children Had Wings." I guess he meant they would be angels?
Boy just think about it, 'Honey', were you thinking of taking the car to go to Massey Hall? Forget it, well just fly there... :D :) |
how does a thread start off a discussion of gratitude for this site and the people who make it possible, and end up in geese droppings and migration paterns???
It's just amusing how these threads run... |
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http://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/madison...ress_anim2.gif (please give it time to load and start the animation sequence Guilty as usual for taking a topic off topic. There I thought I 'd get that in before somebody else pointed a finger at me. It was actually all Char's fault for mentioning geese in the second place http://home.comcast.net/~ervind/digs..._animation.gif believe it or not the file name of this animated gif found while google image searching for a hands up animated gif is tada tada... Brink_resurrection_animation.gif from a complete web page about brink at http://home.comcast.net/~ervind/digstuff/digbm1.html which says at the top "This link leads to a page containing a summary of The Dig's development history. Before you proceed, a warning... This page will take a long time to load on dial-up connections." the link referred to is to http://home.comcast.net/~ervind/digstuff/digtext1.html it all looks frightfully interesting but poor Deb (brink) like me is on dial up so it is likely to be an exercuse in frustration but this line caught my eye "Life crystals apparently existed in Brian Moriarty's design for The Dig, and drove Brink insane" [ November 03, 2006, 20:15: Message edited by: johnfowles ] |
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http://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/madison...ress_anim2.gif (please give it time to load and start the animation sequence Guilty as usual for taking a topic off topic. There I thought I 'd get that in before somebody else pointed a finger at me. It was actually all Char's fault for mentioning geese in the second place http://home.comcast.net/~ervind/digs..._animation.gif believe it or not the file name of this animated gif found while google image searching for a hands up animated gif is tada tada... Brink_resurrection_animation.gif from a complete web page about brink at http://home.comcast.net/~ervind/digstuff/digbm1.html which says at the top "This link leads to a page containing a summary of The Dig's development history. Before you proceed, a warning... This page will take a long time to load on dial-up connections." the link referred to is to http://home.comcast.net/~ervind/digstuff/digtext1.html it all looks frightfully interesting but poor Deb (brink) like me is on dial up so it is likely to be an exercuse in frustration but this line caught my eye "Life crystals apparently existed in Brian Moriarty's design for The Dig, and drove Brink insane" [ November 03, 2006, 20:15: Message edited by: johnfowles ] |
When I get to work every morning canadian geese are everywhere. there were a few mornings that i sat in my car to let a whole cackle of them cross the parking lot.this took more than a few minutes. [the first time i said to myself yeah, they're going to believe this "excuse" for lateness ;D] i am always amazed by these birds whether in flight or aground. one morning there was one goose who faced in the direction that cars enter the parking lot and stood like a crossing guard with it's chest stuck out while the others crossed behind him/her. it was amusing as well as amazing at the same time. when i heard Restless for the first time, the line "in the quietude of winter you can hear the wild geese cry, and i will always love that sound until the day i die" i identified completely and that one line hooked me on the song and it remains since in the top 10 of my list of favorite Lightfoot songs. Better, there were a few times that RESTLESS was playing on my cd player in my car and all of a sudden the unmistakable honking sound is heard in the distance right before I spot a formation of Canadian geese appearing out of the sky over the trees. i swear i almost caused an accident one time because i was riveted with the song and the birds happening at the same time.
there is a campaign by the local government to kill off these birds because of the pollution their excrement causes in the ponds and lakes. IT IS a real problem where I live [long island, ny] because most of our water supply comes from an aquafier[spelling?]. nonetheless, there is a large protest about this. surely, there is a better way. |
When I get to work every morning canadian geese are everywhere. there were a few mornings that i sat in my car to let a whole cackle of them cross the parking lot.this took more than a few minutes. [the first time i said to myself yeah, they're going to believe this "excuse" for lateness ;D] i am always amazed by these birds whether in flight or aground. one morning there was one goose who faced in the direction that cars enter the parking lot and stood like a crossing guard with it's chest stuck out while the others crossed behind him/her. it was amusing as well as amazing at the same time. when i heard Restless for the first time, the line "in the quietude of winter you can hear the wild geese cry, and i will always love that sound until the day i die" i identified completely and that one line hooked me on the song and it remains since in the top 10 of my list of favorite Lightfoot songs. Better, there were a few times that RESTLESS was playing on my cd player in my car and all of a sudden the unmistakable honking sound is heard in the distance right before I spot a formation of Canadian geese appearing out of the sky over the trees. i swear i almost caused an accident one time because i was riveted with the song and the birds happening at the same time.
there is a campaign by the local government to kill off these birds because of the pollution their excrement causes in the ponds and lakes. IT IS a real problem where I live [long island, ny] because most of our water supply comes from an aquafier[spelling?]. nonetheless, there is a large protest about this. surely, there is a better way. |
Many towns across Lake Ontario have problems with the geese on the beaches and lakeside parks. Thousands never migrate and will over-winter in marinas and such. In the spring the eggs are 'oiled' - the eggs do not develop with this process. Sometimes they are herded and shipped to other provinces but they quickly find that they need to be culled in some way. I am in the route of probably 4 thousand that head fromt he local marina and north every day. Sometimes they are quite high but at times they can be as low as 70-100 ft. above the house...The noise is deafening...
Formations of anywhere between 3 to 40 will go over and the sky is full with them. I've seen (and heard) it take about 20 minutes for the sky to clear. The good thing is that geese do their business on the ground if you are wanting to look overhead at them passing. We have "No Feeding" laws as well...this just encourages them to stay around and the bread etc. being fed to them is not good for them anyway. You don't want to get in the way of a mad goose who wants what you have in your hand. They can be very, very nasty! |
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