Looks Can Be Deceiving

 

So for this charity Thanksgiving dinner event, at first glance I thought these were three down on their luck fellows about to enjoy a free meal.  Checking out what was being offered.

But reading the caption, no, these are three Toronto Maple Leaf players (all millionaires) dishing out the grub to actual down on their luck fellows. 

Boy, I probably would have walked on the other side of the street if I saw these guys coming towards me. 

Or at least be ready to pat my pockets and say, I got nothing....

Who Wouldn't Want These?

 

Happy Thanksgiving

 

Ouchie!

 

....thanks, Pat.....

Missed It By That Much

 

"Diamond Jim"

 

So today would have been the 105th birthday of my dad, James Alvin Arnott.

Or Diamond Jim as he liked to call himself. 

Here is a portrait of him painted by a pal in 1939. 

He was 19. And looking good. The world and his whole life waiting in front of him. 

He didn't even know he would have an amazing son several years later!  A son who was so fortunate to have him as his father.

He also called himself Ace Arnott of the Wetaskiwin Wildcats.

I thought he made that team name up until I was driving from Calgary to Edmonton and passed the town of Wetaskiwin. Holy cow, it really exists.

Now whether he was really the ace of that team....

Years later, after the war - where he flew convoy escort over the Mediterranean for the RAF - he gave himself another name - Tiger Jim. His pilot's helmet of course had tiger stripes.

So Dad, you were gone far too soon, but happy 105th.