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9 October 2026 - Toronto ON

ST. JOHN'S NL

LAST WEEK'S POST

Saturday

Just for fun, what did I do today??

Added frequent flyer numbers and passport info on AF website. Wrote them on our paper tickets and added to my cell.

Wrote 3 posts. Linked up weekly post and September recap.

Provided info to cruise company for refund - they had all that info already since had already taken my money, whatever, I'll play nice.

Read some blogs.

I had a major meltdown as I thought my laptop had died. It didn't but I then did multiple backups of files and photos just in case!!!

Showered, dressed and lunched. Took pork out for dinner. Checked the weather in Budapest.

Spent ages trying to buy train tickets on a Hungarian website, finally success. 

I did a load of laundry after we (finally) unpacked our suitcase. 

It took thirty minutes to optimize my laptop, I had forgotten to do it last month.

I installed Apple on my laptop. Looked for MKR new season but couldn't get it to open.

Filed some photos. Did our mail in voting for mayor.

Prepped dinner.

Changed all the garbage, regular, recycling and green bin.

John took a walk to get some cool, fresh air.

We watched the first episode of new series War. Two top London law firms clash over a shocking divorce case that rocks the legal world, with elite attorneys from Cathcarts and Taylor and Byrne battling for supremacy. Hey, Dominic West stars in it, so it has to be good.

We also caught up on Criminal Intent Toronto.

Sunday 

We had 10:15 mani pedi appointments but we are still coughing so cancelled until Wednesday.

We just laid low and entertained ourselves.

Monday

Monday Mural

Foto Tunes

John cancelled golf. We decided to remove a day in Sofia from our plan, it was for one night and involved a flight, so didn't make a lot of sense, we added the day to Belgrade. I confirmed the additional night with the hotel. We also booked our flight from Bucharest to Warsaw.

I got Euros from the bank (FCP) and walked to the Eaton Centre for a sweater that I wanted and also found one for John. I had sushi.

This is a new sign at Union Station. How civilized life was. Now there aren't even any benches or seats because the "unhoused" homeless would occupy them.

I also got confirmation that we will receive a 100% credit from the cruise company. 

We had our first frost warning!

Tuesday

Tuesday Treasures - Little Bighorn

T Stands for Tuesday

With all the news around Cornell I found this to be very interesting.

We stopped into Uniqlo at Union first and John found two lighter sweaters.

We headed to College Park and the subway was a joy, service was turned back at College Park due to "an injury at track level", shut down service between College Park and St. Clair stations. I must say there WERE shuttle buses outside, but the lines were huge.

At Winners we found two suitcases to replace out trusty almost 15 yo ones. The subway was going to be chaotic and we had the suitcases so we walked back.

Wednesday

Signs

10:15 mani pedi appointments came early after getting up at 8!! Walking back.

We headed out at 3:15 to meet John's daughter at Billy Bishop. 

Philip Cote (Anishinaabe-Algonquin muralist and ancestral knowledge keeper)

Cute! As we headed home on the shuttle.

She had been here for a conference and could only book the 7:30 flight home (company rules), so she didn't have time for dinner like we usually do. We took the Porter shuttle to Billy Bishop (island) airport and chatted until 6:15 when she went through security. Best laid plans... She messaged at 9 that flights had been cancelled due to thunderstorms, Porter only flies small plans. Porter simply said make your way to Pearson (train from Union) and see if you can get on a flight there. That didn't make sense timewise!! John picked her and got her to Pearson in no time and she got an 11 PM flight home.

Some customer service!

BTW it was a big light storm!

Thursday

John headed out to play Turtle's Creek at 8:30 and he sent this photo later in the afternoon.

I paid the condo insurance for 2027. I checked on flu shots - not until Oct 26. I filled out the AWAY card and gave it to Steve, I also did the online notification. Put another NO FLYERS sign in our mail box. Completed instructions for T while we are away. I updated our master travel plan.

I am now up to date on Australia My Kitchen Rules 2026!

We watched a 2016 movie with Cillian Murphy Anthropoid. It depicts Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by exiled Czechoslovak soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš in World War II.

Friday

I went for a haircut and ran a couple of errands before meeting my BFF for lobster rolls, our go-to.

I cleaned out fridge and froze the remaining bananas.

We are away starting Monday for three weeks, I will post our itinerary soon.

Autumn is here.

The Canada geese are on their way south.

It is Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. 

COOKING

Saturday - pork tenderloin au gratin potatoes and cauliflower

Sunday - leftovers with additional cauliflower

Monday - Bulgogi beef rice and green beans

Tuesday - Asian beef and beans

Wednesday - ordered Swiss Chalet

Thursday - ham, mashed potatoes cauliflower

Friday - steak green beans and baked potato

READING

I started Standing Still, but honestly, it is a bit of a drag and really not catching my interest.

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Tuesday Treasures

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September 2017 - Montana

We visited the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, which you might know better as the site of Custer’s Last Stand. Click here - There are more photos in our daily post.

I thought the park service did a great job of honouring the dead from both sides while acknowledging that the Native Americans in the battle were fighting to preserve their way of life against white settler encroachment and broken treaties.

Custer National Cemetery at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument was established on January 29, 1879, to protect the original shallow graves of the 7th Cavalry troopers who fell during the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Key Historical Milestones

June 1876: Soldiers were originally buried in shallow graves where they fell on the battlefield. 
1877–1881: Many officer remains, including Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer, were exhumed and reinterred in eastern cemeteries. Remaining soldier bones were gathered into a mass grave beneath a granite obelisk on Last Stand Hill. 
January 29, 1879: The Secretary of War officially designated the site a U.S. National Cemetery. 
December 7, 1886: The site expanded into the National Cemetery of Custer’s Battlefield Reservation to accept burials from other regional military campaigns and wars. 
1890: Over 240 white marble headstones were erected across the field to mark where individual soldiers died. 
July 1, 1940: Management transferred from the War Department to the National Park Service. 
1991: The entire area was renamed Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument to broadly honor all participants, separating the name of the military graveyard as Custer National Cemetery

The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass and commonly referred to among white Americans as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. The battle, which resulted in the defeat of US forces, was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War of 1876. It took place on June 25–26, 1876, along the Little Bighorn River in the Crow Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana Territory.

Like many other national cemeteries, Custer National Cemetery was created after those killed in battle were already buried here. Between 1877 and 1881, troops garrisoned at nearby Fort Custer (modern-day town of Hardin, Montana) regularly gathered remains for reburial, recovered graves, and policed the battlefield for exposed bones. The first of these details disinterred and collected all identified officers, except Lieutenant John Crittenden. Lt. John Crittenden was left where he fell at the request of his family until 1932. General Custer was reinterred at West Point while most of the others were shipped to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and other private cemeteries back east at the request of their families.

Congress passed the first National Cemetery Act in 1867. It provided funds to purchase land, outlined common features, and defined appropriate, acceptable behaviors within the cemetery walls. In National Cemeteries, all rest as equals. This is opposite to the rigid caste system that defined day-to-day military operations. Here in the Custer National Cemetery, for example, Brevet Brigadier General Marcus Reno is buried directly beside Private Dale Hepler, conferring to each soldier an equal honor in death regardless of their military rank or socioeconomic status in life.

 7th Cavalry Memorial located atop Last Stand Hill within the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument.

Erected in 1881, this granite obelisk stands directly over the mass grave where the remains of most of the 7th Cavalry soldiers and civilians killed in the battle were reinterred.

The Inscriptions: The face of the monument visible in the photo is divided into distinct sections commemorating those who fell:
Soldiers: Lists the names of the enlisted men and non-commissioned officers.
Arikaree Indian Scouts: Specifically honors scouts like Bloody Knife, Bobtailed Bull, and Little Soldier who fought alongside Custer's forces.
Civilians: Lists attached personnel, including Custer's brother Boston Custer, his nephew Arthur Reed, the newspaper correspondent Mark Kellogg, and guides/interpreters like Mitch Bouyer and Charley Reynolds.

The 7th Cavalry Horse Cemetery honors the roughly 39 cavalry horses that were killed and used as protective breastworks by Lt. Col. George Custer’s men during their final stand on June 25, 1876.

History of the Horse Cemetery

June 1876: Desperate for cover on the exposed and windswept plains of Last Stand Hill, soldiers shot their own mounts to create a makeshift defensive wall.

1879 (The Cordwood Monument): Captain George K. Sanderson gathered the horse bones scattered across the battlefield and placed them inside a temporary 11-foot cordwood monument erected at the summit of the hill.

July 1881: When the temporary wood structure was replaced by the large permanent stone obelisk seen in your previous photo, the horse remains were carefully and respectfully reburied nearby.

Archaeological Finds: Investigations in 1941, 1946, and 2002 uncovered additional equine skeletal remains alongside battle artifacts like boots and pierced hardtack tins, confirming the exact location of the horse burial site.

The Marker Today

Located just down the ridge from the main monument, the site is designated by a dedicated dark granite marker engraved with a saddled cavalry horse. It serves as a somber reminder of the animals that had no choice in the battle but shared the same fate as the men.

Other graves scattered about.