The Bayo-Hunter

TODAY’S GOOD THOUGHT - FROM SIR RICHARD.

2012-02-01T10:29:00.000-08:00

TODAY’S GOOD THOUGHT - FROM SIR RICHARD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omkD5fFdzFQ
Think, if you reading this then your alive and probably basically well.
With all the feelings and depth within yourself to daily share.
Keep in mind I have seen too many this last year, depart from our mortal plane.
As I come down to it, my future choices/your choices could be down to just heaven and hell.
“But Fear Not” and remember that GOD Loves you and He really does Care...
With Love and all that heaven will allow!

from – Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/
Photo Taken by Sir Richard - A Morning Walk On A South African Beach.

THE REAL TRAGEDY

2012-01-25T12:28:00.001-08:00

THE REAL TRAGEDY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJtq6OmD-_Y
This may be of interest to you or maybe not, for I believe that this may be true for some of us who call ourselves, “Christian”.
For the real tragedy these days, is that there are many Christians who do not even relate to unbelievers unless they absolutely have too...

WELL FOLKS, THAT IS WHAT HAS TO CHANGE AND RIGHT NOW!
For we don’t need to WITNESS more, we need to RELATE more, so that our WITNESSING WILL MEAN MORE! Because if we want WHAT WE WITNESS to be truly more, then we need to be in places, where we REALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Again, this can start with the next PERSON/HOME anywhere from where you are right now, or whom you are soon to meet.

Being too entrenched in a Christian subculture can actually be VERY detrimental to us. The more time we spend with only believers, the less time that we are in the company of non-Christians. Some Christians act as if they have to endure non-Christians in their lives, implying that the less they have to be around them, the better? Thoughts like these are truly very sad!

So we may tell our story to people who don’t want to hear it and didn’t even ask. Even if they don’t mind hearing it, there may be no context to our story. Because, from their own POINT OF VIEW our story may be not relatable to their lives? Hence, we continue to be strangers to each other.

I’ve sensed from some, that if it were possible to be surrounded by ONLY CHRISTIANS all of the time, that this would be the most desirable. Desirable for some, perhaps, for simple safety and comfort, but not for sharing “HIS LOVE” with anyone else!

This example of “A REAL TRAGEDY” is from,

Sir Richard… Who said this to you all with “LOVE” and also all, which heaven will allow!
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

MY THOUGHTS ABOUT ALL OF YOU!

2012-01-24T14:45:00.001-08:00

MY THOUGHTS ABOUT ALL OF YOU!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBDvoDdQmIM

Please note that you are all in my prayers, for I ask that God give you all the strength and provide you all, with what you now need.
I do not know what more to do, as I have had you all one at a time on my mind daily, or one time recently.
For like most of us, I ask what exactly any of us are perfectly clear about on these days.
How about our lives, why have things gone the way they have and where is GOD in all this?

Do any of us know what we ought to do next, with a deep, settled confidence that it will all work out?
“Well Dorothy, neither do I!”
Oh, I'd love to wake each morning knowing exactly where God is taking me.
Be zeroed in on all my relationships and totally undaunted in my TH calling or my other volunteer works.
It's awesome when sometimes you do see it happen but for most of us, life seems more like
driving along with a dirty windshield and then you turn into the sun.
You notice that you can sort of make out the shapes ahead and think the light ahead is maybe green.
For your future, wouldn't a little bit of clarity go a long way?

Let's start with why life, which at times lately is so darn hard.
As an example, I try to be totally healthy but it never seems to happen, as there is always one more health event, which is not so good on its way.
For some of you, one may think of making a shift in your career, or like me, maybe like me, retiring on the lake by Chase BC but sadly I know deep down inside that I will actually never make it there.
Perhaps a few of us do make the jump, but it rarely pans out the way we actually thought.
Or for some, they try to recover something from their marriage, and then their spouse looks at them with a glance that says, "Nice try," or "Isn't it a little late for that?"

Yes, we all have our faiths and beliefs, as we put our trust in them.
For myself my faith there is freedom and abundant life, a peace like a river and joy unspeakable!
Also, we have choice and the ability to share “LOVE” with each other, through family and close friends whom we cherish.
Because folks, that is what gets me through my life’s hardships “LOVE THROUGH THE MANY WHOM I LOVE, THANKS TO GODS LOVE FOR ME!”
So, forgive me for being this preachy, as this is just how my thoughts are about all of you.
That I consider you all “SPECIAL”, otherwise I would not post this for you to read!
With LOVE and all that heaven will allow!

by,
Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

OR WHY?

2012-01-21T14:10:00.001-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq5VBWN15Lo
THEY SAY BEING IN LOVE MEANS NEVER SAYING GOODBYE.
BUT SHOULD I GO, JUST LIKE A BURNING FIRE FEEL MY LOVE
FOR YOU AS IT GLOWS!
AS YOU NEED WONDER NOT, THAT I LOVED YOU OR WHY?
I send my Love to YOU all, with all that heaven will allow,
For I also dedicate this song to you - from Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

A DAILY CHOICE...

2012-01-10T08:55:00.001-08:00

A DAILY CHOICE…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn3osBdoCiI
Remember we will all one day be brought home but when that happens, can you say that you gave totally of yourselves to others?
So each night you may want to reflect about this and if you truly have, then you shall sleep easy. :)
May God bless you all with LOVE and all that heaven will allow!

from, Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

MY BIRTHDAY 57 = SIR RICHARD :)

2012-01-09T06:32:00.001-08:00

MY BIRTHDAY 57 = SIR RICHARD :)
A Groovy song from 1955:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEshQf-tCJE
This is one of my favourite, this is me singing (I wish), songs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnHOPdK-DwU

Photos of Sir Richard's Life @ 57 – as it surprised me that I made it to this day! :)
http://picasaweb.google.com/The.Bayohunter/RichardSLife?authkey=Gv1sRgCKawmeLkgcLd8wE#slideshow/5203562010415654914
Music to listen to as you watch the above photos of Sir Richard’s Life @ 57:
http://streema.com/radios/play/3204

“So as I squeeze off another round of my life, I have only one wish, for all of you.
That you celebrate your Birthday's with as much passion
and conviction as you do daily, in your own lives.
Also remember, that each day that you are alive, is a blessing from God.
So keep your eye on the sites, your powder dry and safety off, only when needed!”

With Love and all that heaven will allow,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLNbeuvHjLw
from Sir Richard of Abbenbroek...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

LOVE FROM YOUR HEART

2012-01-07T09:00:00.000-08:00

LOVE FROM YOUR HEART
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCUqdYP1GRo
Does Love from your heart, dissipate like chimney smoke?
Or is it rock hard like granite, lasting for all of our eternities...
Do you stop Loving someone that you once Loved or have lost?
I think not, you store it and bring it out like a photo album.
To view and at times even share but it is stored and never stops.
Can you Love more than one person,
or is your personality like that of a single railway track?
Never diverting only going one direction and never to be shared,
I think not.
Love, is like the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
Racing out to as many as one needs to move on and always centered back.
To the Love from your heart...

Written by,
Sir Richard...
With Love and all that heaven will allow!
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

A BIT OF WHAT HEAVEN WILL BE LIKE!

2012-01-02T08:28:00.001-08:00

A BIT OF WHAT HEAVEN WILL BE LIKE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_OB7d-B1Vw
No longer will violence be heard in your land,
nor ruin or destruction within your borders,
but you will call your walls Salvation
and your gates Praise.
The sun will no more be your light by day,
nor will the brightness of the moon shine on you,
for the LORD will be your everlasting light,
and your GOD will be your glory.
Your sun will never set again,
and your moon will wane no more;
the LORD will be your everlasting light,
and your days of sorrow will end. Isaiah 60:18-20
**Posted today for you with Love and all that heaven will allow,
From Sir Richard.
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/
A knight in thy service of the King of Kings

For Angell Lefebvre

2011-12-27T11:02:00.001-08:00

WHO LOST HER BATTLE WITH CANCER TUESDAY MORNING!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVbkz_3lO3c
Angell this morning, we were all given the shocking phone call about your passing earlier today from my step daughter, your friend Jennifer.
Well Kiddo, we certainly have known each other for a long time as you may remember that we first met around 1985 when you were just a little child living with a single Mom Bonnie, who is also my friend. Then we all watched you grow into a beautiful young lady.
As you know Angell, I am also a person who is battling Cancer, so when I heard that you had your own battle with Cancer I thought, “Angell will beat this!”, as “Angell is a tough cookie!”
Then when you did not, it brought into real focus my own battle and I wondered if I could ever show the Grace and Courage that you have shown all, at how well you do this.
Angell if I may share some of my belief, please know that you and your family are in my thoughts and prayers moment by moment these days.
As I believe, that your passing is more to be envied then pitied, for us mere mortals cannot distinguish between those who are deserving of Grace and those who are not.
Only GOD can and as such the all-knowing, He knows of the good person that you are Angell.
I am confident that you now enjoy that bliss, which is prepared only for the good and virtuous.
As we all can now comfort ourselves in reflecting that you now enjoy in substance, what we in this world, can only imagine what heaven will be like.
Angell I pray that as GOD takes you into His arms, that He also gives comfort to your Children, Husband and Family, giving them all the strength to go through this very difficult time together.
You are and were, too young to leave us, this soon!
May You Rest In Peace Angell.
Sincerely with Love and Tears, from Richard & all of his Family...
Amen…
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THE HURON CAROL

2011-12-16T18:53:00.001-08:00

THE HURON CAROL = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6IG6F6E5Ac
The "Huron Carol" (or "'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime") is a Christmas hymn, written in 1643 by Jean de Brébeuf, a Christian missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons in Canada. Brébeuf wrote the lyrics in the native language of the Huron/Wendat people; the song's original Huron title is "Jesous Ahatonhia" ("Jesus, he is born"). The song's melody is a traditional French folk song, "Une Jeune Pucelle" ("A Young Maid"). The well known English lyrics were written in 1926 by Jesse Edgar Middleton. This version is performed by Heather Dale, and sung in Wendat (Huron), French and English.

Ehstehn yayau deh tsaun we yisus ahattonnia
O na wateh wado:kwi nonnwa 'ndasqua entai
ehnau sherskwa trivota nonnwa 'ndi yaun rashata
Iesus Ahattonnia, Ahattonnia, Iesus Ahattonnia.

Ayoki onki hm-ashe eran yayeh raunnaun
yauntaun kanntatya hm-deh 'ndyaun sehnsatoa ronnyaun
Waria hnawakweh tond Yosehf sataunn haronnyaun
Iesus Ahattonnia, Ahattonnia, Iesus Ahattonnia.

Chretiens, prenez courage,
Jesus Sauveur est ne!
Du malin les ouvrages
A jamais sont ruines.
Quand il chante merveille,
A ces troublants appas
Ne pretez plus l'oreille:
Jesus est ne, Iesus Ahattonnia.

Oyez cette nouvelle,
Dont un ange est porteur!
Oyez! ames fideles,
Et dilatez vos coeurs.
La Vierge dans l'etable
Entoure de ses bras
L'Enfant-Dieu adorable.
Jesus est ne, Iesus Ahattonnia.

Let Christian men take heart today
The devil's rule is done;
Let no man heed the devil more,
For Jesus Christ is come
But hear ye all what angels sing:
How Mary Maid bore Jesus King.
Iesus Ahattonnia, Jesus is born, Iesus Ahattonnia.

Three chieftains saw before Noel
A star as bright as day,
"So fair a sign," the chieftains said,
"Shall lead us where it may."
For Jesu told the chieftains three:
"The star will bring you here to me."
Iesus Ahattonnia, Jesus is born, Iesus Ahattonnia.

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM CANADA!
For you with Love, from Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

CHRISTMAS IN THE TRENCHES 1914

2011-12-10T10:00:00.001-08:00

CHRISTMAS IN THE TRENCHES 1914 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfdOOCOQ9sk

COUSINS - THIS REALLY HAPPENED AND AS IT HAPPENED ONCE,
GOD WILLING MAY IT HAPPEN AGAIN - AND FOREVER AMEN!

Info on the Christmas Truce of 1914 =
http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/christmastruce.htm

A Video of what the Christmas Truce of 1914 was probably like =
http://www.youtube.com/v/fHObCL2luMw?fs=1&%3Bhl=en_US&%3Brel=0

MAY PEACE COME ONE DAY TO US ALL!
"Each Christmas comes since World War I have learned its lesson well.
For the one who calls the shots won't be among the dead and lame
and on each end of the rifle we're the same..."

SO I WISH YOU ALL, "A MERRY CHRISTMAS!"

with Love from Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY FROM CANADA Eh?

2011-12-05T13:12:00.000-08:00

MERRY CHRISTMAS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrNcD34KFhM
THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY FROM CANADA Eh?
This Winnipeg Manitoba Lad (Sean Quigley),
played all the instruments and directed this VIDEO.
Well done I’d say and only someone from Winnipeg
would wear shorts in the winter?

Video Directed and Edited by: Sean Quigley
Song Arranged and Composed by: Sean Quigley
Recording, Mixing/Mastering and Instrumentation by: Sean Quigley
Caitlin Quigley (Camera Operation)

MERRY CHRISTMAS from Sir Richard
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

CANCER SURVIVOR THOUGHTS #3 - A CHRISTMAS PAST

2011-12-01T07:23:00.001-08:00

CANCER SURVIVOR THOUGHTS #3 - A CHRISTMAS PAST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC9cbEHjvPs

My favourite time during the entire year is Christmas. The Excitement, Loves warmth during the Winter’s cold and a certain renewal of Hope is what makes it so special for me. For when I was little, as all children do I thought that I knew everything but the last thing you really want is to know as a child is too much. What you really want is for the grown-ups in your life, to make the world a safe place where dreams can come true and promises are never broken. And when you're little, it doesn't seem like a lot to ask. So Christmas for me always has and for all time, fulfilled all of these needs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cP26ndrmtg&ob=av2n

Fast forward in time to when my children were once small it was I, because of “Christmas Excitement” who never slept through the night. My children were the ones who all seemed to sleep till late Christmas morn and too my frustration an only at that time, did they finally wake up! While silly me, impatiently stayed in my bed waiting for them to come and awaken me.

Going even further forward in time, to October of 2010 it was the start of my Worst and Best Christmas ever! That was when I had my second Cancer operation to remove Stage 4 Soft Tissue Sarcoma Cancer, which at that time and so far (knock on wood), was only in my left arm.
My surgeon, plus 2 in training surgeons and my good wife, along with myself were all gathered in an examination room to talk about my 2nd operation results.
The surgeon then informed us all that the Pathology Lab said that I had Stage 4 Soft Tissue Sarcoma Cancer and regretfully also, he was unable to remove it all. So another operation was to happen to me and this would now be done by a Soft Tissue Sarcoma Cancer Specialist.

It was then that my wife asked what my prognosis at that time would be and the Surgeon then said; “That usually, the survival rates for this type of Cancer is but 1year and 5 years or more, if our program is successful”.
The room went immediately silent as a tomb, except for the gentle weeping from my wife.
All the Surgeons had their heads hung low and though in shock myself I felt compelled to do my best as a “Volunteer for The Missing” response; “That There Is Always Hope!”
By cracking jokes and trying to cheer up as best I could, all these really down people…

The next Surgeon, who is the Soft Tissue Sarcoma Cancer Specialist Surgeon, only confirmed the previous surgeon’s diagnosis, adding to it also that at the least, the worst possibility is that I may lose my left arm, if the Cancer was down to the bone.
My next operation (number #3), would be on December 23rd 2010 as there was a cancellation for that time slot and as I have an aggressive form of Cancer, waiting around was not an option.
Well I ranted of course, told many people; you included and it was then that I was given the compliment that I was handling this all so well? In actuality though for those who really know me, you know that I am only calm while helping others but with myself, never…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBAJoF_ndbY

My thoughts at the time were; “Only one year hmmm??”, that would place my demise on this earth and arrival before GOD sometime around October, November, or December 2011. So I Prayed to GOD; “do not let this happen on Halloween please”, as I might actually be under one of those fake tombstones next year in reality. Halloween now seems not so cute anymore…
Remembrance Day, GOD please not then, as this date was and is reserved for “HEROES” and that is definitely not me!
Or Christmas, LORD please not then as I would ruin that day for many, for many years to come due to my passing.
Then one day my handling of the prognosis so well, well that all but disappeared as I walked to the mail box to do the simple task of retrieving our mail. I do not know why but I just started to cry and cry, to the point where I just could not take one more step and I almost collapsed to my knees, outside for all to see…

So then Christmas Day 2010 came and operation number #3 was over. They decided to send me home too early as they thought they were being kind but really, I should have just stayed in the hospital.
For I was in such Pain, followed by even more PAIN, yet I was also tickled pink and so relieved that I still had my left arm but I was sooo drugged up. I remember my son’s head bobbing in and out of my line of vision, the bright sun light of that Winters day burning into the back of my eyes as I was helped into my home. A Christmas dinner plate of food, that at someone kindly put before me but I wondered why? Also, I have a memory of some problem to do with my puppy dogs and the back door but really, I remember not. What I really do remember for sure is my joy that I still had my left arm (albeit a shark bite look) and also, that I had made it through this operation to this day, Christmas Day!
https://picasaweb.google.com/116831131707285449605/RichardSStage4SoftTissueSarcomaCancer?authkey=Gv1sRgCJW7iZLqyPOu0QE#slideshow/5621628276964966386

Well as you all know, since then I have had another Cancer operation (#4), and also another year has gone by.
GOD last year had given me this Special Christmas Gift, which was another year of life and maybe many more, sharing Christmases with all of you!
So now I would like to send you all, my Love and with all that heaven will allow from this CANCER SURVIVOR, may you have “A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJxgqRoU0ew
From,

Sir Richard aka Richard Abbenbroek
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

Song #1 = Martina Mcbride - What Child Is This? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC9cbEHjvPs
Song #2 = Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Canon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cP26ndrmtg&ob=av2n
Song #3 = Sarah McLachlan & Diana Krall - Christmas Time is Here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBAJoF_ndbY
Song #4 = Sarah McLachlan - Happy Xmas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJxgqRoU0ew

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

2011-11-24T11:12:00.000-08:00

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-KdUabGGD8

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
To free your captive Israel.
That mourns in lonely exile here,
Until the Son of God appear.

Rejoice! Rejoice!
O Israel, to you shall
come Emmanuel.

Veni, veni, Emmanuel!
Captivum solve Israel!
Qui gemit in exilio,
Privatus Dei Filio.

Gaude, gaude, Emmanuel
Nascetur pro te, Israel.

Gaude, gaude
Gaude, gaude
Gaude, gaude
Gaude, gaude

Gaude, gaude, Emmanuel
Nascetur pro te, Israel.

Gaude, gaude, Emmanuel
Nascetur pro te, Israel.

Posted for you by Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/
FOR I WISH YOU ALL - A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS! :)

REMEMBRANCE DAY NOVEMBER 11 2011

2011-11-10T08:17:00.001-08:00

CANADIAN REMEMBRANCE DAY WEEK = REMEMBRANCE DAY NOVEMBER 11 2011

Calgary's War Dead - Remembrance Day November 11th
https://picasaweb.google.com/107280182513021931120/CalgarySWarDeadRemembranceDayNovember11th?authkey=Gv1sRgCKydwoLl2NuihAE#slideshow/5673392191645605490

O Eternal God,
Who has set us in this beautiful land of Canada, we remember every day.
With grateful hearts, the men and women of this nation, who have sacrificed, died, and are currently, serving on peace missions, so we might enjoy this land in peace, with freedom and justice for all.
We remember their deeds of courage, their acts of valour and their willingness to sacrifice, though engaged in wars not of their own making.
We remember that they counted the loss of their own lives to be a reasonable price to pay for the principles by which we live in Canada yesterday and today.
For this their sacrifice, for the peace they won, for the remembrance of their lives, we give thanks.
We pray in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen…
Remembrance Day 2011 - How Will You Remember Them
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUOqcHRTDp8

Posted By Sir Richard
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

CANADIAN REMEMBRANCE DAY WEEK

2011-11-08T07:01:00.001-08:00

TOTALS FOR ALL CANADIAN WAR DEAD THOUGHOUT HISTORY:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa1nG4ezPQ0

War of 1812 - 1814: Official reports suggest British/Canadian losses were 8,600 killed, wounded or missing, while the Americans suffered a total of about 11,300 casualties. Undoubtedly, there were many more on both sides, since the records kept by many militia units were neither complete nor accurate. Deaths from disease among the regulars, militia and First Nations also would add substantially to the totals.

1837 Rebellion: 325 dead, 27 of them soldiers and the rest rebels, while 13 men were executed (one by the rebels), one was murdered, one committed suicide and 2 prisoners were shot.

American Civil War 1861-1865: there were over 50,000 British North Americans (Canadians) that fought for the Union and over 10,000 for the Confederacy. It is estimated that several thousand died during the battles and from disease. Canada, at the time of the American Civil War, was only a Colony of Great Britain and became a country in 1867 partially because of the effects of the Civil War.

1870 Battle Of The Belly River: The Battle of the Belly River was the last major conflict between the Cree and the Blackfoot Confederacy, and the last major battle between First Nations in Western Canada.
The battle took place on the banks of the Belly River within the present limits of the city of Lethbridge Alberta. A devastating outbreak of smallpox had reduced the strength of the Blackfoot, and a Cree war party had come south in late October, 1870 in order to take advantage of that weakness. An advance party of Cree’s had stumbled upon a Peigan camp and decided to attack instead of informing the main Cree body of their find.
The Cree and Assiniboine Indians which included Big Bear (Mistahimaskwa), and Piapot (Payipwat), who both lead the attack.
Just in nick of time the Metis Scout, Jerry Potts with a group of Peigans and 2 Blood bands who armed with repeating rifles came to their assistance. After a daylong battle the Cree’s and Assiniboine, who lost about three hundred of their number, were put to rout. The slaughter was such that Jerry Potts said; “You could fire with your eyes shut and be sure to kill a Cree.”

Fenian Raids into Canada 1866 – 1871: Canadians - 16 killed, 2 dying later of wounds, 2 dead by heat stroke, 74 wounded, 6 captured from the Queens Own Rifles, Caledonia Rifles, 13th Battalion, York Rifles and the 2nd Battalion. Fenians - 5 killed, 2 dying later of wounds, and 17 wounded. American Casualties = 1, Sadly a Mrs. Eccles of Vermont was accidentally shot and killed by a Canadian soldier while she was watching the battle while standing on her doorstep during one of the raids.

Reil Rebellion 1885: At the Battle of Duck Lake 56 NWMP Police and 43 volunteers. They faced a similar number of Metis and First Nations, of those who died on the Police side the number was 12, and on the Metis side there were 5 killed in action. After this battle there was fear that all of the First Nations and Metis in the West would begin a war against the white people. So a total of 3300 White soldiers left Eastern Canada in the hopes of bringing peace back to the West. Meanwhile, 2000 troops in Western Canada prepared to join in as well.
Battle of Fish Creek: Altogether, 10 soldiers died and 45 were wounded; and on Gabriel Dumont's side, 5 died and 1 was wounded. Also, 55 Metis and First Nations horses had been killed.
Battle of Batoche: When Gabriel Dumont later dictated his account of the events, he stated that, "The balance sheet of these four days of desperate fighting was for us, 3 wounded and 12 dead." Gabriel Dumont's totals were radically different from the totals that General Middleton claimed. General Middleton wrote that 173 Metis were wounded and 51 were killed. It appears that both Gabriel Dumont and General Middleton were not very good at counting.

Boer War 1899 -1902: 7,400 Canadians were sent to South Africa. 224 were killed in action or by accidents and disease. Another 252 were wounded.

World War I 1914 - 1918:
1. 628,736 Canadians served.
2. 66,573 died and 138,166 were wounded.
3. 2,818 were taken prisoner of war.
4. 175 merchant seamen died by enemy action.

Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force 1918 – 1919: was a Canadian military force sent to Vladivostok, Russia during the Russian Revolution to bolster the allied presence. Composed of 4,192 soldiers and authorized in August 1918, the force returned to Canada between April and June 1919. Leaving behind 14 who were killed in action.

Spanish Civil War 1936 – 1939: the Canadian government declared its neutrality on the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Most people in Canada favoured neutrality but some men joined the International Brigades. About a 1,000 Canadian citizens joined the defence of the Popular Front government. By the end of the Spanish Civil War almost half of the Canadian volunteers had been killed.

World War II 1939 - 1945:
1. 1,031,902 Canadian men and 49,963 Canadian women served.
2. 44,927 died and 43,145 were wounded.
3. 8,271 were taken prisoner of war.
4. 1,146 merchant seamen died by enemy action.

Korean War 1950 - 1953:
1. 26,791 Canadians served.
2. 516 died and 1,558 were wounded.
3. 33 were taken prisoner of war.

UN Peace Keeping 1956 - 2001: Canadians killed in action while on UN assignments since 1956. Looking at the larger picture, at least 122 Canadian peacekeepers have died while on UN assignments somewhere since 1956. The number would be much higher, of course, if we counted those who died during training or related exercises.

Viet Nam Conflict 1959-1975: it is estimated that 3,500-4,000 Canadians served in various U.S.A. Forces in South East Asia. It is also estimated that 100-145 died or were MIA (bodies never recovered). Canadian casualties are included in the USA totals.

1991 Gulf War:
1. 3,837 Canadian men and 237 Canadian women served.
2. There were no Canadian casualties or prisoners of war during the Gulf War.

2001 to date the Afghanistan War:
Canada's role in Afghanistan, consisting of operations against the Taliban and other insurgents in southern Afghanistan (Kandahar Province), has resulted in the largest number of fatal casualties for any single Canadian military mission since the Korean War. A total of 158* members of the Canadian Forces have died in Afghanistan between February 2002 and November 10th, 2011. Of these, 132 were due to enemy actions, including 97 due to IEDs or landmines, 22 due to RPG, small arms or mortar fire, and 14 due to suicide bomb attacks. Another six Canadian soldiers died due to friendly fire while conducting combat operations. An additional 19 Canadian soldiers have died in Afghanistan as a result of accidents or non-combat circumstances; 6 in vehicle accidents, 3 unspecified non-combat-related deaths, 3 suicide deaths, 2 in a helicopter crash, 2 from accidental falls, 2 from accidental gunshots and 1 death from an illness. 615 soldiers have been wounded in action and 1,244 have received non-battle injuries since April 2002.
In addition to these troop deaths in Afghanistan, 1 Canadian soldier was found dead of non-combat-related causes at Camp Mirage, a forward logistics base in the United Arab Emirates near Dubai.

2011 Libya NATO Mission:
1. Canada's 630 RCAF and Royal Canadian Navy personnel served on this NATO mission in support of the Libyan Rebels.
2. There were no Canadian casualties or prisoners of war during the Libyan Mission.

They shall not grow old as we who are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

By Sir Richard…
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

HAPPY GUY FAWKES NIGHT!

2011-11-05T20:59:00.000-07:00

HAPPY GUY FAWKES NIGHT!
NOTE; Today in England it is The 5th of November
Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent
To blow up King and Parliament.
Three-score barrels of powder below
To prove old England's overthrow;
By God's providence he was catch'd
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys,
God save the King!

A clip from the movie "V":
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2qtdx_v-for-vendetta-introduction-to-evey_shortfilms
V: I can assure you that I mean you no harm
Evey: Who are you?
V: Who? Who is but the form…following the function of “what”, and what I am is…a man in a mask
Evey: Well I can see that.
V: Of course you can. I’m not questioning… your powers of observation, I’m merely remarking on the paradox… of asking a masked man… who he is.
Evey: Oh…right.
V: But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace soubriquet, to suggest the character…of this dramatis persona.
Voila! In view a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation, of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified…and has vowed to vanquish…these venal and virulent…vermin van-guarding vice…and vouchsafing… the violently vicious…and veracious violation…of violition!
The only verdict is vengeance…a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such… shall one day vindicate…the vigilant…and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage…veers most verbose, so let me simply add…that it is my very good honor to meet you…
and you may call me "V".
Evey: Are you like a crazy person?
V: I’m quite sure the will say so. But to whom I might ask am I speaking?
Evey: I’m Evey
V: Evey? E.V. Of course you are.
God Save The Queen!
Sincerely,

Sir Richard....

CANCER SURVIVOR THOUGHTS #2

2011-11-03T21:03:00.001-07:00

CANCER SURVIVOR THOUGHTS #2 – PAST AWAY DOING WHAT THEY LOVED?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uLtyzRgmyI&ob=av2e
Remember hearing this statement; “They died doing what they Loved?”
For me many a time and I find it kind of ironic, for since my Cancer began I have begun to think about it much.
Imagine that your mountain climbing, a grip of safety for you is just millimetres away and you reach out only to slip, to your death.
Yet at your “Life’s Celebration”, it was said of you, that you died doing what you Loved; Mountain Climbing. Even though in all reality, this was only your second climb, and in fact you’re actually really scared of heights.
Death by a Mountain.
Then imagine that your flying in an aircraft on a whatever trip, to a where ever destination. Your aircraft for whatever reason falls out of the sky and crashes. No survivors but yet again someone says; that you died doing what you loved best, FLYING?
Death by an Airplane.
One day, traveling to work by motor vehicle, some fool texting on their cell phone misses their RED LIGHT and broadsides you, sending you both to meet our Lord early. Did they die doing what they loved best in a motor vehicle or did they die doing what they loved best by texting? Probably the latter as driving to work is usually not fun but a necessary evil…
Death by a Motor Vehicle/Death by Texting.
Speaking for myself it could be said that if I passed away from Cancer in a Hospital not that I love Cancer or Hospitals but for lack of a reason let’s say that Richard died doing what he loved; Collecting Bayonets.
Though you don’t usually drop dead from Bayonet Collecting unless the BAYONET was an amazing rare find and you found this one at an amazing low sale price!
Death by Collecting Bayonets.
When I think about it I have too many things really, which I can think of that I do love to do.
So I ask all of you, have you ever sat down and listed what you really: “Love To Do?”
Back to me, in all actuality maybe I should be remembered for the Volunteer work that I do.
Yes, that is what I would like to be said about me at my Life’s Celebration.
After all, my family always says that I do too much and I believe that compared to others whom I know, that I don’t do enough.
That’s it, he died doing what he loved best; VOLUNTEERING!
Death by Volunteering…

By Sir Richard – Cancer Survivor
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

CANCER SURVIVOR THOUGHTS #1

2011-11-02T10:55:00.001-07:00

CANCER SURVIVOR THOUGHTS #1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYNOXRifXKQ&ob=av2e
When you have Cancer you find out quickly, all who really Love You.
Yet at the same time there are those who surprise you, because they do not.
Bask in the ones who do Love You, for they are blessings whom will always help you through.
Forgive the ones, who do not, as they are but wheat chaff to be scattered in the wind…
Also, Cancer Battles are very lonely for they are just like a really scary Roller Coaster ride, that has you the lone rider, of which you are totally terrified on!
To date in regards with my Cancer Battle, I am tenaciously holding my ground.
My Faith though battered, seems like the Biblical reading from the Son;
Acts 9:16 “I will show him how much he must suffer in My name”.
So, until I find myself “Many Years Cancer Free” my Cancer Battle goes on and on,
For as always, “His will be done.”
To those who Love me – Thank You!

Sincerely, with Love sent back to you – from Sir Richard…
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

SO I THINK I WENT INSANE TODAY.

2011-10-25T08:05:00.001-07:00

SO I THINK I WENT INSANE TODAY.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yTdBTPbf9A
So I think I went insane today, for right now I wonder what that was all about.
So I think I went insane today, as my CANCER begged me to paraphrase Moby Dick, and I just wanted to shout;
“To the last, I grapple with thee; from my own heart, I stab at thee; for hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee, for if my chest had been a cannon, I’d burst my heart's hot shell upon the CANCER that is within!”

So I think I went insane today, as my CANCER and I fought yet another nightly round.
With my CANCER PAIN as the song says; “I was just a tossing and a turning, turning and a tossing, tossing and a turning all night long!”
So I think I went insane today as my CANCER and I, wrestled with each other all over town.

So I think I went insane today, yet right now I wonder what that was all about.
Operation number 4 and my CANCER it’s still NOT confirmed all TOTALLY GONE.
CANCER why don’t you get out of my life, and let me make a brand new start, let me just get over you!
But my CANCER just keeps me, for the next five years or more, Just Keeps Me Hanging On…
So I think I went insane today for again and right now, I wonder what that was all about.

Yet you beg the question to ask; Richard, Only Just Today?
SO I THINK I WENT INSANE TODAY.

by Sir Richard…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yTdBTPbf9A

“CRUEL WITHOUT REASON BY OTHERS”

2011-10-16T10:46:00.001-07:00

“CRUEL WITHOUT REASON BY OTHERS”
As a Child when friends or people became cruel to me without reason, I was shocked, hurt and left not understanding why? Then onto Adulthood, I thought I would be wiser, more experienced and hence could handle those who hurt me for some unforeseen reason. I was wrong, as I never learned why or how they came to their point of cruelty towards me, knowingly or not. The answer actually is within them and finally I have come to know that I cannot change their within but only mine. For from this I finally did learn to handle a “cruel without reason” by others. By walking away and knowing to leave well enough alone that it is within them.
By Sir Richard - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BkT6-CDIjw

THOUGHTS OF THE BUDDHA -
Also the song "The House You Live In" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8LMD9cEEeU In Buddhism, sometimes Buddhists fight to defend their nations, home and family. This is not "wrong." Yet even in these circumstances, to harbor hate for one's enemies is still a poison. And any act of war that has sown the seeds of future harmful karma is still akusala. “You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.” - “Hatred is never ended by hatred but by Love”
A Good Buddhist thought posted for thee to ponder,
from Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

THE MISTS OF FEAR

2011-10-13T09:19:00.001-07:00

“The Mists of Fear”

I have found that most people change kind of slowly, if at all. They are who they are and then after a while, they're someone else, some never knowing the difference when it happens.

While at the same time some people know the exact moment where their lives changed such as myself, for this I do know.
Either they saw the person they were going to marry or, the look in their baby's eyes for the first time he/she smiled.
For some people, it's not the good things in life that made them have their lives change. It's something they've gone through that makes everything they look at from that moment on; seem very different from how it always once had been.
Again I am one of the latter groups of people, for from my experience I learned not only how to fear for real and to fear all the time but also how to channel this fear to help others.
People like to examine the things that frighten them, to look at them and give them names, so saints look for GOD, and scientists look for evidence. They're both just trying to take away the mystery, to take away their lack of knowledge that leads them to Fear.
That's what I try and do by channelling my fear, just by the sharing of myself and as others who are like me, who also do the same.

Speaking for myself essentially, I am just a good listener. Although, I am not a trained social worker, psychiatrist, police officer or lawyer, I let the people who are like me know that just like them. I have already gone through the same Mists of Fear, Despair and Horror, as they. I/We offer them our hands, hearts, minds, prayers in support as we walk through these people’s “Mists of Fear” together.

by Sir Richard...aka Richard G. Abbenbroek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqlS02Z2eZQ
Oh P.S., I also took this photo, it is of Lake Louise in Alberta Canada.
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

My Fall Legend Photos by Richard

2011-10-10T19:20:00.001-07:00

Hello folks,
Here is a link to my current photos that I took titled:
“My Fall Legend Photos by Richard”
https://picasaweb.google.com/107280182513021931120/MyFallLegendPhotosBySirRichard?authkey=Gv1sRgCLbWqJiR-MmQnwE#slideshow/5662033836889320514
Hope you like them.
Sincerely, with Love and all that Heaven will allow!
Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

Unfamiliar Turf

2011-10-04T08:04:00.001-07:00

Unfamiliar Turf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcwCiTkt2Jg
Ever since my 20’s, I have found upon reflection that for me I always seem to be, on unfamiliar turf over and over again. I look back and see just how much my life has changed and now once again with my Cancer, I am truly on unfamiliar turf.
By trial and error I found that sometimes the best way to move into the unfamiliar is to take familiar steps, small steps. To do ordinary things to deal with something that is in no way, ordinary.
After all, throughout one’s life we're always going someplace new all the time. Familiar things just let us pretend that we aren't moving into unfamiliar territory.
You take those small familiar steps, and you try to be honest, to live as if nothing had changed and still to just go on with your life. Then again, there are times when what you actually need, is just a small piece of how things used to be and by acting them out, or through them such as, via a visit with a good for your soul, long-time old Friend.
Then you will find out that once again you are still all right, not in the past but in your new unfamiliar and at times, I have taken comfort by doing this. My advice is, always Cherish your Friends as you will need them, when you encounter your unfamiliar turf…

Written with Love and all that heaven will allow by,
Sir Richard....
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

About A Moment

2011-10-02T09:46:00.001-07:00

I WAS JUST THINKING, about how often the small things in life, such as a moment or so, can have so much control over us.
It's like an amusement ride that you never asked to go on and after, you found that you were right, that there was really not much amusement.
As a lot can happen in one’s a day, for sure…
For in a full second, then a minute, an hour and even a day, the small things in life can bring so much to us, Good or Bad.
That is why I go through life a Nano second by Nano second, in making my daily plans. As I have found that Nano second events, are so much smaller and easier to digest. ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWDaHj2NdSE
Just a moment of thought from,
Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

A PIECE OF 9/11 AND MEMORIES OF FALL

2011-09-26T07:24:00.001-07:00

A Piece of 9/11 and Memories of Fall:
https://picasaweb.google.com/107280182513021931120/APieceOf911AndMemoriesOfFall?authkey=Gv1sRgCKL0i87ni-yK5QE#slideshow/5656396401003560882

We Would Lose All HOPE?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZEO1Lug25s

People talk a lot as if the most important thing in life is to always see things for what they really are. But everything we do, every plan we make, is kind of a lie. We close our eyes and pretend that the day won't ever come when we won't need to make any more plans. But for all of us that day always comes. Hope could be a form of a lie to ourselves but it is still the best. We sort of trick ourselves to keep going, or we would lose all HOPE, followed by FAITH, then Ourselves…

by Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

MY NEW CANCER SURVIVAL IDEA:

2011-09-21T14:44:00.000-07:00

MY NEW CANCER SURVIVAL IDEA: First I thought when I found out that I had Stage 4 Soft Tissue Sarcoma Cancer and asked, “Why God”, are you letting this happen to me? Why do YOU not take this away from me now?? Basically, “WHY ME LORD????” With a very honest, selfish, childlike slant on my own horror, to this I pondered and pondered. So much so , that I became “VERY” frustrated, sad, angry and I even at times vented my displeasure to others and to GOD many times over.
I asked GOD, “could I not instead win the lottery”, or “why could I not have become famous”, why must I be blessed, with a possible shortened life due to Cancer? As I am far too young, to be going home to heaven right now. The fear of saying goodbye so early would even wake me up at night, as my “FAITH” was shaken to its core. “Come on GOD I would ask, please just talk to me; let me know what and why I deserve this?” The silence then became deafening and myself pitying thoughts, took over every aspect of how I was living.
In Church you would hear of how we need to give thanks to the LORD and I would ask; “Thanks For What?”
“Thanks, such as in my case; a bed reserved for me in the Cancer Ward, of the Tom Baker Cancer Center!” Or Thanks for our existence on this crappy world that we all live on, where; war, fear, hunger, disease and hate are the way of things? So, just like the Cancer does, my anger, bitterness and self-pity started to eat me from the inside out, until after a few more shocks I finally reached Rock Bottom & I Was Down On My Knees…
Then it came to me one morning at breakfast, “A GOD Thought”, if you wish or believe. That maybe the reason for my possible death and by the way, I plan to live a long time, as I believe that “Cancer Can Be Beaten!” Maybe this happened to me as an example to others as to how to handle their Cancer, or to assist someone who knows of someone with Cancer. GOD maybe, is using me as an example on how to handle it. Yes Cancer, with a Big “C”, for when you get it that is how you see it. After all, many times I have been and am a “Volunteer” for others with my life’s experiences, why not a “Volunteered, Cancer Example” for others?
Then as I looked down on my tasty blue berries in my morning cereal, maybe I do have much to be thankful for. After all I have a wife who really Loves me, grandchildren, children, extended family, Team Hope Family, friends and yes even my puppies who really Love me and care! How blessed am I and “Thank You GOD!”
For, I am grateful for the Food on my table, as I can pretty much eat whatever/whenever I want, “Thank You GOD!” as I have great country to live in, a home, heat, clean water and I have a car, no I have 2 cars, that I can drive around any time when many have nothing! “Thank You GOD!” as I have a computer to send this New Cancer Survival Idea of mine, too many parts of the world. “Thank You GOD!” for the memories of my life past and current and these memories I must admit, are mostly “GOOD”.
“Thank You GOD!” for friends whom I really Love and Love me and have Loved me, up to 40 plus years now. As I write this I know that I can call some of these people and say “I Love You” and they will respond back, “I Love You Too”, can many say that? Most important I have GOD, who will always and has always, Loved me!
So what took me so long to “Give Thanks To HIM” for all the many little things that are not so little, which I am blessed with? For thinking about these many blessings, I now feel very Loved, Warm and Cozy. For my cancer is now a fightable small “c” as I can now see, how well GOD has taken care of me!
By Sir Richard aka Richard Abbenbroek a small “c” Cancer Warrior!
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/
P.S. I now tossed in this song as it brings back memories of my past & present, Day by Day = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3PjfBQjJT8

FLYING AFTER 9/11

2011-09-10T08:23:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x00jP8fW84

FLYING AFTER 9/11 – was with my first plane ride to Team Hope training in Washington DC in 2003 as it was just under 2 years past 9/11.

My wife and I arrive at the American Airlines counter at the Calgary International airport. My wife is there to see me off and also as emotional support due to my (with age), newly acquired fear of flying. When the first question the counter attendant asked is; “Sir, if you are called upon during your flight, to defend this aircraft will you?”

Taken aback with this question and with rapid memories of the 9/11 flights 93, 11, 175 &77. I first looked and my unbelieving wife, as she knows how much flying is now bothering me. Then I said what one could only say and that was “Yes!” The second question that I was asked right after a, “well we have to ask these questions Sir” but “because I was to be seated at the window seat Escape Hatch, would I have any problems opening it for others in time of an Emergency?”

I explained to this inquisitive counter attendant that it can be guaranteed, that I would be the first one out on that aircrafts wing “No Worries about opening that hatch, should the need arise!”

So then began my very “White Knuckled Flight”, to Washington DC via a short stop in Chicago. The first leg of my trip went well even though I was watching any and all bathroom traveling passenger for any strange movements. Just as we were about to land, the plane lurched up and started to climb. Of course I freaked, dug my fingers into my arm rests until my fingers turned white. As I knew what this means, this means we cannot land for whatever reason and they have to dump fuel! That’s it I am toast, this could only happen to me and I was sooo glad now to be seated by this Emergency Door! Should I open it now was my only question but being once in the military, I knew orders must first be given. Waiting for these, is when the pilot announced that we had to circle for a bit, as the plane ahead of us blew a tire (I could see this event below me now), and thought airplanes get flats? Look at all those planes!

We finally landed and I could have kissed the ground. I loved the moving sidewalks (the Jetsons were ahead of their time) but this is such a big airport, looks sort something out of Star Wars. The last leg of my flight was in an even smaller plane and at the rear was seated a big guy who really looked Cop like to me. Thirty minutes out of Washington DC we were informed that we could no longer visit the wash rooms and if we got up the big guy (I was right), in the back would arrest or shoot us. With the plane, banking this and that way, this caused my white knuckle response again, one moment sideways to the point of (hey that guy is having a BBQ, wonder what’s on the grill?) to yes, that is a missile battery down there! My God, is this a way to welcome a Canadian, I wonder if they still remember my relatives who were here 200 years ago??? I hate flying as I wish we were down, so the Orange Alert at the Chicago Airport is really taken serious here!!! Darn it, another steep turn, I think I might lose my lunch…Oh well, Oh God.

Ahhhhhhhhh they are landing, finally down on Tera firma and just wait, yes just wait to get up and leave the aircraft, as it not good to scare the Yanks. By having this Canadian running out of the plane screaming like a little girl, yes just keep your cool, you did it, as have just flown after 9/11.

Witten by Richard Abbenbroek aka Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/
Photo by Sir Richard
9/11 - 10th Anniversary Tribute Song - My Immortal performed by Evanescence

WHAT 9/11 LEAD ME TO

2011-09-09T08:03:00.000-07:00

WHAT 9/11 LEAD ME TO – Because of a previous 2 promises (one to GOD), I was already involved in assisting Parents of Missing Children. When invited to join Team Hope, I jumped at the chance to help my American Cousins with their Missing: http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/2007/09/my-first-steps-as-volunteer-for-child.html
WHAT 9/11 LEAD ME TO – When Hurricane Katrina hit, as I could not assist back in 2001 at “9/11 Ground Zero”, I thought now and also through GOD, here is my chance to physically help and I did try to help my American Cousins with tragedy: http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/2007/09/gulf-of-mexico-my-katrina-story.html
Katrina Photos = https://picasaweb.google.com/The.Bayohunter/KatrinaReliefTeam5?authkey=Gv1sRgCPz9mN-kquja8gE#slideshow/4999675849380200466
WHAT 9/11 LEAD ME TO – Why stop there, for from 9/11, Team Hope, Hurricane Katrina and GOD then motivated me to go out of my comfort zone and assist my South African Cousins with setting up computers to help educate when none existed. http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/2008/07/dandelion-principle.html
South African Photos: Richard's 2008 Africa Mission Pictures #1 = https://picasaweb.google.com/The.Bayohunter/SouthAfricaNo1?authkey=Gv1sRgCPSpisrImOkL#slideshow/5212712266200810690
Richard's 2008 Africa Mission Pictures #2 = https://picasaweb.google.com/The.Bayohunter/SouthAfricaNo2?authkey=Gv1sRgCJ-_2dXg14WsRw#slideshow/5212862253429792914
WHAT 9/11 LEAD ME TO – This is what 9/11 has lead me to do and out of this HORROR, IT CHANGED MY LIFE TO DO A LITTLE BIT OF GOOD, AS I AM SURE IT DID THIS FOR YOU TOO!

LET’S NEVER FORGET 9/11! = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxJiiWo0JbE

by Richard Abbenbroek...aka Sir Richard
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/
Team H.O.P.E. USA/CANADA Volunteer
http://teamhope.org/
Child Find Alberta Volunteer
http://childfind.ab.ca/
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Volunteer
http://www.missingkids.com/
Missing Kids. CA
http://missingkids.ca/app/en/

LOVE AN EVIL – 9/11/11

2011-09-08T07:20:00.001-07:00

LOVE AN EVIL – 9/11/11

Hate is something that is learned, that turns into Evil. Evil is when you apply that hate against others and when you can kill and destroy as easily as the unconscious flutter of one’s eye lid. For Evil is the absence of all Love for anyone and anything, making murder or destruction on an individual or grand scale, become normal.
Man has been capable of Evil since the dawn of time and Man, has never changed one iota ever. Beware of this inner part of us all, for Evil’s teaching will soon follow. As Evil is bigger than anyone can imagine! Evil is the absolute opposite of all Love and Love, is why we are all here.
A Choice, which we all have been given and awake within our hearts each and every day…
By Sir Richard
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

Watch this = 102 Minutes That Changed America:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSlDchQqXS4
102 Minutes That Changed America is a 102-minute American television special documentary film that is commercial free.

THE REASON FOR MY HOPE – LET’S ROLL

2011-09-07T10:29:00.000-07:00

THE REASON FOR MY HOPE – LET’S ROLL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X168p1A33tA

"September 11 was just another date on the calendar for all of us. Now, when we hear that date, it brings to mind all sorts of things, from fear to anger to sadness to, for the thousands of people in my shoes, thoughts of all the loss that we have experienced personally. We're left with choices about what we will do with those feelings. The choices for people like me and for many of us in this room, are to look at all the things we've lost or to look at all the things we have; to become bitter or to become better; to live in fear or to live in hope. I've chosen to live in hope. . . ."The crowd interrupted me with a burst of applause, which I appreciated, but I didn't want anyone to misunderstand the source of my strength. "The reason I've been able to do that is not because I'm a strong person. I don't want anyone to go out of here thinking, Wow, she's so strong; look at her! The reason I've chosen to live in hope is because of the heavenly, eternal perspective God has given me. That tells me that fear comes from feeling out of control, and if September 11 has taught us anything, it is that we are never really in control. Todd and I were two people who planned for the future; type A's who had all our ducks in a row and yet we were not in control on September 11.

"But hope comes from knowing who is in control. Hope comes from knowing that we have a sovereign, loving God who is in control of every event of our lives. . . . In the book of Jeremiah (29:11) it says that God has a plan for me, a plan to prosper me and not to harm me; a plan to give me a hope and a future. And that is what holds me together every day when I get out of bed in the morning: to know that is true, and it has been proven true in my life to date. It was true on September 11, and it will be true for as many years as God has left for me, and for whatever He has in store for me . . . and for my children.

"It's a time of uncertainty, and many people are looking for something to cling to. I hope for you that you can cling to the one who has all the power, and all the love, and all the care, because He's the one who's really in charge."

from "Lets Roll" pp 277 by Lisa Beamer
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Posted by Sir Richard
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

9/12 HINDSIGHT = AND THANK YOU

2011-09-05T09:31:00.001-07:00

9/12 HINDSIGHT = AND THANK YOU – to all those who are serving and have served our respective countries since 9/11. Imagine if we would all have pulled together like we did in World War 2 starting on 9/12. Then this CREDIT CARD WAR would not have happened! As we would now be debt free, from this exaggerated debt and this 9/11 War would have finished long ago, for you and me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biwSCHZ_IS0&NR=1

A Sir Richard Thought...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/
For the Canadian Fallen = http://www.portraitsofhonour.ca/

IT IS SEPTEMBER 11TH, FROM ME TO YOU

2011-09-03T09:10:00.001-07:00

It Is September The 11th, From Me To You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr8VwYLcxGo

It is a crisp, cool, foggy fall day.
My walk with Tribble dog is now through.
It is September the 11th, from me to you.

Frantic emails from friends at work,
It’s on the net and radio, can you see this on your home TV?
A small plane crash, like Patsy Cline’s Mountain but is it all true?
It is September the 11th, from me to you.

The anchorwoman says that there is just a little bit of falling debris.
“Oh my God!” the whole freaking building is coming down, is what I see!
4 – 5 – 6 more planes are on the way?
No one has a clue…
It is September the 11th, from me to you.

My wife and I are now going to work, past the Calgary International Airport we go.
We see all the passenger planes parked wing tip to wing tip, row upon row.
No jet contrails, no aircraft sounds and for the first time in my life,
only the birds flew.
It is September the 11th, from me to you.

Our minds are not on our work, as we are numb through this whole day.
For we hear stories of those who died, helping those who had to stay.
Later more stories of those who bravely stopped the evil that flew.
It is September the 11th, from me to you.

Entombed in the mountains of debris are up to 3,000 dead, what can one do?
To fight the evil of man, God has shown me, the same as you.
That we must help those who are down, troubled and stand up for love and what is true.
For from this hell we should have learned, that this was our wake up call,
that we all went through.
It is September the 11th, from me to you.

Written by Sir Richard…
For September 11th
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

A TRUE CANADIAN HERO - JACK LAYTON!

2011-08-22T18:20:00.001-07:00

A TRUE CANADIAN HERO - JACK LAYTON!
As I battle my Cancer, Jack sadly lost his.
Rest In Peace Jack, as it is with sadness to have learned about your passing.
If I may share some of my belief please know that Jack’s family are in my thoughts and prayers.
As I believe, Jacks passing is more to be envied then pitied, for we mere mortals cannot distinguish between those who are deserving of grace and who are not.
Only the Lord can and as such, with all knowing the good person that Jacks was.
I am confident that Jack now enjoys that bliss, which is prepared only for the good and virtuous.
You can now comfort yourselves in reflecting that Jack now enjoys in substance, what we in this world, can only imagine that heaven will be like.
May the Lord give Jacks family the strength, to see them all through this difficult time.
My deepest condolences.
Sincerely and with Love,

Richard Abbenbroek.
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

HAPPY WOODSTOCK! :)

2011-08-16T09:19:00.000-07:00

HAPPY WOODSTOCK! :)
http://www.youtube.com/v/TrWNTqbLFFE?version=3&%3Bhl=en_GB&%3Brel=0
The truth is, there is No Stereotypical Hippy, Yippy or Yuppy.
Just ageing folks, who once turned reality into dreams and dreams into reality.
With Love and all that heaven will allow,
from Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

Little Storm by Sir Richard

2011-08-05T18:26:00.001-07:00

Little Storm by Sir Richard
https://picasaweb.google.com/107280182513021931120/LittleStormBySirRichard?authkey=Gv1sRgCOGjrpv0-ZuP6AE#slideshow/5637539578634672658
Remember to have full screen view just tab your F11 key after you launch the below link.
I hope that you enjoy these, as they are just random quick shots.
Thank you for looking. :)
Sincerely,

Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

P.S. WARNING TO EVERYONE!
Even though this was compared to some Storms was a Little Sitorm, they all can kill, if not craeful. Example, from harmless puddles that have open man holw covers, to the sucking force of the water. Sadly a 60 year old Calgary man lost his life last night in this Little Storm: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/dies+after+being+swept+away+Calgary+flood/5216784/story.html

Chase BC July 2011

2011-08-02T09:05:00.000-07:00

Chase BC July 2011
https://picasaweb.google.com/116831131707285449605/ChaseBCJuly2011?authkey=Gv1sRgCJ37iZa3ocm4swE#slideshow/5636279643073658498
Remember to have full screen view just tab your F11 key after you launch the below link.
I hope that you enjoy these. :)
Thank you for looking.
Sincerely,

Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

My Window

2011-07-21T15:35:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGkR8FXq1aQ
My Window

I watch from my window.
Things that happen beyond.
Behind the dirt, glass and screen.
Out there I truly long,

To be, and trapped no more.
Inside, behind my window.
With the whole world waiting.
For me, and all it has in store,

I have to yet make my mind up though.
It just takes standing up, walking to.
The turn of a door, a few short steps.
Then I am Free, finally other side of My Window.

By
Richard Abbenbroek
Aka Sir Richard…
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

Rick & Richards Air Show Adventure 2011

2011-07-18T08:44:00.001-07:00

SIR RICHARD'S AIRDRIE ALBERTA 2011 AIR SHOW PHOTOS:
- These photos were taken by Sir Richard at the Airdrie Alberta 2011 Air Show on July 16th 2011. My good friend since '68 Rick was with me and we really liked the show, as a personal note. Make sure one brings a large hat for sun protection as I got burned bad yesterday :(
- Remember to have full screen view just tab your F11 key after you launch the below link. Also this show may freeze as it is large so you may have to manually forward the Air Show Photos. I hope that you enjoy them!
- Rick & Richards Air Show Adventure 2011:
https://picasaweb.google.com/107280182513021931120/RickRichardsAirShowAdventure2011?authkey=Gv1sRgCO2XgIiRg43hLQ#slideshow/5630386798072167106
- Now for a song by The Animals - Sky Pilot
http://www.youtube.com/v/69zvFnVa03g?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0
With Love and all that heaven will allow,
from Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

Birds Horses & Such

2011-07-17T17:20:00.000-07:00

Birds Horses & Such by Sir Richard
The below link is a Slide Show, to have full screen just tab your F11 key. :)
https://picasaweb.google.com/110562872661348651908/BirdsHorsesSuchBySirRichard?authkey=Gv1sRgCJ3ki9Kk0c_ENA#slideshow/5629301290278407394
P.S.: A Tune To Listen To My Photos If Thee Like
http://www.youtube.com/v/UFLJFl7ws_0?version=3&%3Bhl=en_US&%3Brel=0

from Sir Richard
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

Will & Kate Stampede 2011 by Sir Richard

2011-07-10T08:08:00.000-07:00

Will & Kate Stampede 2011 by Sir Richard

This is a Slide Show, to have full screen view just tab your F11 key after you launch the below link:
https://picasaweb.google.com/110562872661348651908/WillKateStampede2011BySirRichard?authkey=Gv1sRgCKDC2K7-1qPm6wE#slideshow/5627366173619071522

Also a Cowboy tune to view these photos with:
Beaches Of Cheyenne - Garth Brooks = http://www.youtube.com/v/m9PFgpLKTBo?version=3&hl=en_US

With Love and all that heaven will allow,
from Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com

FALSELY USED CHILD ABDUCTION LEADS TO = ?

2011-07-05T15:42:00.001-07:00

FALSELY USED CHILD ABDUCTION LEADS TO = the misleading/misuse of resources to Help Find Missing Children who are actually MISSING.
Followed by in Caylee Marie Anthony’s case, the denigration of EVIDENCE, along with disrespect of this Child’s remains’, so that the TRUE MURDERER GOES FREE in my opinion.
May God take care of little Caylee and give strength to the family and all of us who actually do Care!
Sincerely and with Love to all our Missing and Murdered Family Members – from Sir Richard… http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/
song Concrete Angel by Martina McBride:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtNYA4pAGjI

I HEARD ANGEL WINGS YESTERDAY!

2011-07-02T11:40:00.000-07:00

I HEARD ANGEL WINGS YESTERDAY! http://www.youtube.com/v/M5rVgxmekeM?version=3&%3Bhl=en_US&%3Brel=0
Really, I was on the couch watching some TV during a chore break and I heard the fluttering of wings. First thought, the Lord has sent one of His angels to bring me home?? Turns out, it was a little bird behind the couch that flew into our home and was trying to leave through our front window. Bird and myself are both OK :) With Love and all that heaven will allow,
from Sir Richard
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

2011-06-19T09:29:00.001-07:00

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!
A CANCER CURE BY SIR RICHARD :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA9OqUuA6a0
Also works for baldness, eh? (hair is so over rated!),
with Love an all that heaven will allow!
from Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

COURAGEOUS BATTLE WITH CANCER!

2011-06-16T09:34:00.000-07:00

COURAGEOUS BATTLE WITH CANCER!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FY34hWOds8
Please note my family (WHICH IS ALL OF YOU), that I request that you do not ever add this to my epitaph.
As I have CANCER and there is nothing Courageous about it at all!
It’s like hair, either you have some or not! There is not much you can do as you are just here for the ride anyway.
“Courageous Battle With Cancer”, is something probably a Hospital, Hospice or Mortuary would come up with. Only after all the crap (enough to kill a heard of Elephants), that they gave you did not produce the results that they wanted. Then as you smiled to your last, it was duly noted in some file that you “Passed On” only after your “Courageous Battle With Cancer”.
Really! – With Love from Sir Richard…
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

CANCER! ONE REAL REASON WE HAVE IT

2011-06-13T14:19:00.000-07:00

CANCER - LEST WE FORGET = REMEMBER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CSOgDqpImg
As in most Wars, it is the wounded who are rarely mentioned, as they are the longest direct casualties of War and its suffering. The dead of the conflict are usually remembered forever, as they should be for they have paid the ultimate sacrifice.
As I sat last week in the Tom Baker Cancer Center I knew that I was part of the wounded from our last Great War. That War was “The Cold War” where a thousand plus Nuclear Weapons have been detonated all over this planet since 1945.
Contaminating our precious Earth Biosphere, so that many have died and are dying of to this day and beyond of Cancer. We wounded Fighters of Cancer who like myself, are victims of this most insidious of our recent Wars!

CANCER! THE REAL REASON THAT SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE IT:

Fallout From Nuclear Weapons Tests and Cancer Risks
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50855212/Fallout-From-Nuclear-Weapons-Tests-in-the-50-s-and-Cancer-Risks

World War 3 we already fought it = Worldwide Effects of Fallout
http://www.third-millennium-library.com/readinghall/Generalities/nuclear_effects.htm
Allowing for uncertainties about the dynamics of a possible nuclear war, radiation-induced cancers and genetic damage together over 30 years are estimated to range from 1.5 to 30 million for the world population as a whole. This would mean one additional case for every 100 to 3,000 people or about 1/2 percent to 15 percent of the estimated peacetime cancer death rate in developed countries.

Just one Test on film = http://www.youtube.com/v/NpbCZ8QRpEg?version=3&%3Bhl=en_US&%3Brel=0

CATALOG OF WORLDWIDE NUCLEAR TESTING
http://www.iss-atom.ru/ksenia/catal_nt/1.htm
United States of America (1032 nuclear tests)
Soviet Union (715 nuclear tests)
Great Britain (45 nuclear tests)
French Republic (210 nuclear tests)
People's Republic of China (47 nuclear tests)
INDIA (6 nuclear tests)
PAKISTAN (6 nuclear tests)

Current List of states with nuclear weapons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_weapons
Nuclear Weapons: Who Has What at a Glance
http://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Nuclearweaponswhohaswhat
Europe's Five "Undeclared Nuclear Weapons States"
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17550

Posted by a survivor LIKE YOU of the un-declared Nuclear War who is now fighting CANCER,
Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

WHAT HOPE FEELS LIKE

2011-06-08T19:50:00.001-07:00

WHAT HOPE FEELS LIKE = http://www.youtube.com/v/3YI046xEt7E?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0
Hope is the motivation that we know from the time of our creation,
On through the growing pains of our families. From the present day, toward the end of our own individual destinies.
Each of us waits eagerly for the Hope, of what each day brings, And with one or another, we all wait with Hope.
No gift is greater than to give the gift of Hope! Without giving another Hope, what is seen is no Hope at all.
Who Hopes for what they already have? If we Hope for what others Hope for and wait with them patiently with Hope. Then and only then, will we know "WHAT HOPE FEELS LIKE". Remember, to NEVER give up HOPE!
Written by Sir Richard Abbenbroek...A Victim Of Cancer - Fighting!!
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

LISTEN IF YOU HAD CANCER!

2011-06-06T15:42:00.001-07:00

LISTEN IF YOU HAD CANCER!

It only hurts me when I cry:
http://www.youtube.com/v/_jiLTeiZUqc?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0

Or Not, or if you still have it and are like me & fighting on, cause; "The only time I feel the pain, Is in the sunshine or the rain, And I don't feel no hurt at all, Unless you count when teardrops fall, I tell the truth 'cept when I lie, And it only hurts me when I cry!" "Oh maybe every now and then, I have a small heartache again, You wouldn't know to look at me, There's tiny scars that you can't see, It was a struggle to survive, I'm probably lucky I'm alive!"

With Love, an all that heaven will allow from Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

TODAY 22 YEARS LATER = The Smile

2011-05-30T21:31:00.000-07:00

TODAY 22 YEARS LATER = The Smile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHH8bfPhusM
For I Forget NOT, as the nightmares did NOT return.
22 years after my youngest daughter was Abducted (today) and Recovered (August 10th 1989).
As it’s hard to decide where I should start and at the same time, it is very easy for it’s all there.
All the memories, the pain, the fear, the stress are all just a simple recalled flashback away.
The moment from a time long ago, when my world was turned upside down and my child abducted.
In hindsight, because of nothing more than another persons whim, of control over me.
So they could say, look at what I can do to you and you can not stop me!
I REMEMBER:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2LVaDCvTuo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L133WaT4Eck

Even though it is now long ago, during a time when my dreams become reality and my reality would seem to become dreams.
To this day I am haunted, as it plays back in my dreams, this haunting is from non the less, than a smile.
A smile from the last time that I saw this person of now 22 years ago, as she walked out of Court.
Walking past me, that smile which said, I am free, unpunished and a I am feeling all powerful, as my twisted mission for you is accomplished.
For you can not stop me and just wait and see what I will do to you next...

Every night or every other night, this smile comes back into my thoughts, via my dreams.
It starts out simple enough at times, I am with my current wife, or any woman, doing some activity together.
This could be anything from doing supper dishes to attending an event but then it goes all wrong.
Things and reality twists like a very bad "Alice in Wonderland", then the kind person that I am with, becomes that evil.
Doing tormenting things that were done to me 22 years ago and just as I start to wonder why, once again the smile appears.
She has just morphed herself back, into my life and again with that smile.

Now Evil knows me well and plays on this event of the past to haunt me and torture me.
It's not really the past but present events, that actually bother me today.
Especially if feel I have no control over today's event, then the one event that I really truly could not control.
Comes back to basically say, hey your nothing, your hopeless and helpless and I am all powerful!

Not so Satan, as a good friend recently reminded me, that I can re-wire my daily thinking.
That I must keep in mind that this smile that is worn by that person, should be more pitied and not feared.
As I must use my strong belief in the Lord, which is very strong, to say to that smile.
In fact you are "NOT", to be feared but pitied and hence, evil looses once again!
So this is how to remove a "SMILE", that was evil from my haunted 22 year old dreams...

For I am a slave to you no more.

Written by
Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

Missing Children's Day

2011-05-25T11:54:00.000-07:00

Don't forget, that TODAY is International National Missing Children's Day - we are asking everyone to light a candle in honor of all the missing children and their searching families. Place the candle or a light in your front window to show your support for these families - because the search must continue.
http://www.youtube.com/v/jVbkz_3lO3c?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0
Sir Richard
TEAM H.O.P.E. USA/CANADA Volunteer
http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/ServiceServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=1583
N.C.M.E.C. Volunteer
http://www.missingkids.com/
MissingKids.ca
http://missingkids.ca/app/en/

MOTHERS DAY

2011-05-08T09:55:00.001-07:00

TO THE ABDUCTOR OF MY YOUNGEST DAUGHTER - Thanks to Jesus you are forgiven for what you did. Though my angst toward you and people like you who still do this, has never diminished! I know that God blessed us with choices, Stupid or Not! So say we all, Amen? from Sir Richard... http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

http://www.youtube.com/v/ysAI0nN06JQ?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0
The Grascals - Long List of Heartaches

You're at the top, of my long list of heartaches.
Right up there with the worst, of the worst I've ever known!
A real master of disaster, you're my number one mistake.
And you're holding down your spot.
At the top, of my long list of heartaches.

When we first met, I knew you were a cut above the rest.
With pure determination, you've proved to be the best.
They'll be singing your praises, a hundred years from now.
Congratulations, here's to you, stand up take a bow!

You're at the top of my long list of heartaches.
Right up there with the worst, of the worst I’ve ever known!
A real master of disaster, you're my number one mistake.
And you're holding down your spot.
At the top, of my long list of heartaches.

My world's been torn to pieces, more than a time or two.
But nothing could prepare me, for the things you put me through.
When I compare my love's gone wrong, I think it's safe to say.
No competition, well next to you, you've blown 'em all away!

You're at the top, of my long list of heartaches.
Right up there with the worst, of the worst I’ve ever known.
A real master of disaster, you're my number one mistake.
And you're holding down your spot.
At the top, of my long list of heartaches.

A real master of disaster, you're my number one mistake!
And you're holding down your spot.
At the top, of my long list of heartaches.

HAPPY MAY DAY!

2011-05-01T11:53:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/v/1dPDO3Tfab0?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0
HAPPY MAY DAY! A promise with the renewal of Spring, the new green growth of which it all brings. Warmth into thy heart, winter now yet melts as a forgetful dream. My Love is with thee, you know what I mean. For upon us all, is yet another Spring. by Sir Richard.
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

RE LOST FAMILY MEMBERS

2011-04-11T11:12:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ispY0m3Jf4

I really feel the pain of those who lost family members today. No matter what the reason, horror, or useless justification. They are gone. So I pray for the left behind that they find Inner Peace, until they all once again reunite as Family.

With Love from Sir Richard = http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

FOR ALL MISSING CHILDREN AND MISSING ADULTS

2011-04-04T09:02:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXrWkuqr5I

TO ALL THE MISSING CHILDREN/MISSING ADULTS

Hidden from our view, never forgotten, taken from us against our and their will, we who will never giving up Hope until. One day they COME HOME to us. THERE IS ALWAYS HOPE!

from Sir Richard http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

A Promise Of Spring

2011-04-03T10:41:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/embed/6c6_lecPRsU?rel=0

To my Canadian Family and Friends, this is what SPRING looks and sounds like, I only wish. So my COUSINS, I just can not take anymore SNOW! 2 Feet ( I know were supposed to be metric, but sadly I'm not!), already on the ground and more falling, falling, falling, I need, we in Calgary need some Sun. SO I DEDICATE THIS SONG TO MY WIFE - MY CO CANCER WARRIOR. Who gave me hell yesterday when she caught me shoveling the walks because she cares. Who I give gifts to anytime to say that I LOVE YOU, JUST BECAUSE!

With Love, From her Stud Muffin Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com

Romantic And A Hopelessly Romantic

2011-03-21T10:33:00.001-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgZkL3-zPFk&feature=player_embedded
My favorite Shawn Phillips song. Hauntingly Romantic as I am a Romantic. By the way, the difference between a Romantic and a Hopelessly Romantic, is the moment when the Hopelessly Romantic finally finds his female life long counterpart.
With Love from Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

Just An Average Man

2011-03-19T20:51:00.001-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/embed/H-uoGy0PmHo?rel=0
Talking about Good Men and Bad Men, I guess that I would fit into the category, Average Man. Not a Failure either, nor a Super Man, just an Average Man. Who Loved and was Loved and tried to make a little difference!
From Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

I Ask God Why?

2011-03-09T21:09:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/embed/NQGSKrRrz0M?rel=0
Cousins even though I seem to try, just as my tears seem to dry, it might have just been all in vain? Fragile like this song am I, more bad news comes to me and I ask God why? Weary for that inner peace which never seems to come, I fight on not to die.
Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

The Promise of Spring

2011-03-06T08:50:00.000-08:00

The Promise of Spring
http://www.youtube.com/v/GJw0QFwatIo&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0
Alberta Bound by Paul Brandt

Winter tarries much too long at four thousand feet above sea level.
Here in Calgary Alberta, spring comes late and fitfully. We had snow again last night as we are on this first week of March and probably will have some yet all the way into May as well. I’ve come to accept that spring here is really a wrestling match between winter and summer, as makes for a long time of waiting for Spring.

You see in Calgary, the flowers are pretty much gone in September.
By the first of October, the aspens start turning gold and drop their leaves in a week or two, and come November, all is gray.
Initially, I don’t mind. The coming of winter has its joys, and there are Thanksgiving and Christmas to look forward to.
Though right after the New Year, things begin to drag on...
Through February and then March, the earth remains lifeless. The whole world lies shadowed in white, brown and gray tones, like an old photograph. Winter’s novelty is long past, and by April we are longing for some sign of life some color, some hope for this is just too long.

Then last year this time, I rounded the corner into our neighborhood, and suddenly, the world was green a little bit again. What had been rock and twigs and dead mulch was a rich oriental carpet of green. I was shocked, stunned. How did it happen?

As if in disbelief, I got out of my car and began to walk through this clump of trees, touching every leaf. The birds are back as well, waking us in the morning with their glad songs, as I thought earlier that year it was my brakes squealing again. This all happened suddenly, in the twinkling of an eye.
My surprise was telling, as it seems natural to long for spring, it is another thing to be completely stunned by its return. I was truly and genuinely surprised, as if my reaction were, "Really, what are you doing here?"

Then I realized, I thought I’d never see spring again. I think in some deep place inside, I had accepted the fact that winter had become forever and so, I was shocked by the return of spring.

So I wonder, can the same thing happen for my soul? As with all the things that have happened to Joyce and I lately, I feel as if my eternal wintered soul, is longing for God’s promise of His spring. So I have to ask you my friends, what about yours?
Written by and with Love for all of you from,

Sir Richard...
Aka, Muzikayifani
Note: Muzikayifani is a Zulu name given to me by my friend Thabo Sithebe.
It means: Two Great Houses brought together as one.
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

The Answer

2011-03-02T14:39:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jKHIxBBfWU

This song makes me think of all my Friends and Family, who Love me, as much as I Love them. A Love which means not having to pay a price monetarily, or mentally but a Love, given freely and of a high value to us both.
With Love, from Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

LET IT BE ME

2011-02-22T10:51:00.001-08:00

LET IT BE ME!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LWpw3CMCEg&feature=related
For I know that Jesus is singing this song to me:

There comes a time, a time in everyone's life.
Where nothing seems to go your way.
Where nothing seems to turn out right.
There may come a time, you just can't seem to find your place.
For every door you open, seems like you get two slammed in your face.
That's when you need someone, someone that you, you can call.
When all your faith is gone... and it feels like you can't go on,
Let it be me... Let it be me...
If it's a friend that you need... Let it be me, Let it be me...

Feels like you're always coming up last.
Pockets full a nothing, ain't got no cash.
No matter where you turn, you ain't got no place to stand.
You reach out for something and they slap your hand.
I remember all to well, just how it feels to be all alone.
Feel like you'd give anything, for just a little place you can call your own.
That's when you need someone, someone that you, you can call.
When all your faith is gone, feels like you can't go on.
Let it be me... Let it be me...
If it's a friend you need, Let it be me, Let it be me,
Let it be me...
Let it be me...
If it's a friend you need, Let it be me, Let it be me, Let it be me...

So Thank You Lord, as I love You too,

from Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

TRIBBLE REBA ABBENBROEK - TWO YEARS LATER

2011-02-21T15:41:00.001-08:00

TRIBBLE REBA ABBENBROEK - TWO YEARS LATER
October 11th 1999 - February 21st 2009

My eldest puppy whom I named Tribble Reba Abbenbroek had to be put down 2 years ago today due to massive kidney failure.
Tribble basically would have required a transplant to correct this problem.

That day I held Tribble as the Doctor put her down and then I then went to pieces. Even though there was no hope for improvement, I still feel as if I murdered her. My belief is that all good dogs go to heaven and this is where I believe Tribble is right now waiting for me.

Many people would say, "hey", it's just a dog but Tribble was never just a dog.
For me she is family and I loved her so!
So I need not apologize for feeling so sad, as I do right now.

Well folks, forgive me if this note bothers you, but I had to share today's remembrance with you all. For my Tribble Dog, I dedicate this song for this is how I feel: http://www.youtube.com/v/UXwrSmfvXc0&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0

From Tribble's Daddy - Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

Re: What we Members of TEAM HOPE do?

2011-02-16T10:38:00.000-08:00

Re: What we Members of TEAM HOPE do?
http://www.teamhope.org/
What we members of TEAM HOPE do best is share ourselves. Essentially, we are just good listeners. Though we are not trained social workers, psychiatrists or lawyers. We let the loved ones of the missing know, that like them, we have already gone through the same fog of despair and horror of a "Missing Loved One". As we offer them our hands/hearts and minds in support and together, we walk through the mist.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/CzFaEgQsuG0?rel=0
by Sir Richard a Proud Volunteer for TEAM HOPE...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

The Spread of Fanatics

2011-02-15T07:03:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/embed/gnWDVPINu60?rel=0

In the 21st Century beside the spread of Democracy, it is the Fanatics who are also once again on the march. Currently it is the Fanatics who wage any one of the shooting wars worldwide. It is the Fanatics who systematically slaughter Democratic groups throughout the World and are gradually taking over. It is the Fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor-kill. It is the Fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. It is the Fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.

The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the 'silent majority,' is cowed and extraneous. 1917 Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of no less than 40 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China's huge population was peaceful as well in 1949 but Mao Communists when finished, managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.

The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included as an example, the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; mostly killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet. Then who can forget Rwanda, which on what seems like a whim collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were not "Peace Loving"?

Histories lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points:
- Peace-Loving People have always been made irrelevant by their silence.
- Other Peace-Loving People will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because like 1933 Germany, they will awaken one day and find that the Fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.
- History has shown that Peace - Loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, Cambodians and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late!
- As for us who watch it all unfold on TV or the Internet and believe this can only happen to someone else. We must pay attention to the only group that counts, "The Fanatics" who will always threaten our way of life and hence, we must always be prepared to stand up to them!
A thought to share with you from,

Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

2011-02-14T06:55:00.000-08:00

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!
From Sir Richard, to all those whom I Love...
Personally I do not believe or celebrate Valentines Day. As my Valentine, who is my Wife, gets a Valentine of sorts from me, out of the blue. It is called a "Just Because" gift, or card or thought. So guys as a bit of advice, "Just Because Love" lasts much longer, then a single day event.

"Just Because I Love You Is Everyday!"

http://www.youtube.com/embed/aHzMGM9qyZw?rel=0
from,
Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

Todays News Update for Sir Richard

2011-02-01T07:03:00.001-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/embed/_8rh_48pLqA?rel=0
Today's News Update is that I must first give thanks for the Doctors

our Lord has so far provided for me.
If not for Dr. Mulloy my first appointment for seeing about

the lump on my left arm would not have been
until January 2011 and I probably would be

well on my way to heaven right now.
So I am grateful that he saw me in May and then passed me

on to Dr. Loll who removed the lump and discovered it was a Cancerous Malignant Soft Tissue Sarcoma Tumor. This good doctor removed all that he could and then Dr. Mack

removed what was left of this Stage 4 Cancer from my arm and discovered

more possible area's that are now under watch.
I thank God for all three of these Doctors, as I am sure

I would not be writing this grateful note right now!
So I finally got in to see the good Doctor yesterday

at the Tom Baker Cancer Center.
My Thyroid growth at this moment is benign,

I have a new growth of something on my chest and in my lungs

though which a new MRI has been ordered for.
I am really out of breath these days and the nerve pain

(as 3/4 of my left arm is now missing), is beyond belief.
So they are suggesting that I will end up with what they call, a pain specialist

but first some heavy duty nerve pain meds.
I am not sleeping well due to this as I have said before the Cancer Pain wakes me up during the night,every night and I am being slowly worn down.
The other good news is that they do not see

Radiation or Chemo as needed for me at this time.
For this is good as I need my health because my good wife is not doing well

health wise, so please pray for her.
So Father God Thank You, for the Physicians that

You have supplied for both my wife and I.
Thank You Lord, for the Friends and Family

whom have taken such an interest in our well being.
That as You know Father God, tears of gratitude and joy

are abundant from us both for these blessings as well.
In Your Name I pray in gratitude - Amen.
With Love from Sir Richard and the good Lady Joyce...
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Happy Robby Burns Day! - from Sir Richard.

2011-01-25T07:33:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/embed/U5bxT-j9UOQ?rel=0

If ye keep faith, with Scotland the Brave.
Tho thy future is yet not made.
Let it be known, before God thee will stand proud!
On thee day, ye will come before thee grave...

Happy Robby Burns Day! - from Sir Richard.
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

When Cancer Wakes Me Up

2011-01-19T07:02:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/v/HonH-w7mGlQ?fs=1&%3Bhl=en_US&%3Brel=0

Cancer sometimes wakes you up through the night.
Either from dreams of fear or unwanted, unreasonable pain.
I have always thought of Joyce when I hear this song, so now the line "Help Me Make It Through The Night", is what I pray to God some nights, when Cancer wakes me up.

- from Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

A Constant Craving

2011-01-18T08:39:00.001-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/v/ABYJo53mHHQ?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0
A Sir Richard and Lady Joyce song,

I have always considered it within.
Our life's desires are a Constant Craving,
for us all this Constant Craving has always been.

Searching for Love like a breath of fresh air,

it's all around, it's everywhere.

So take in that breath of Love, hold it long as possible,

for an eternity hold it in...
With Love to you all from Sir Richard.
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

On Sir Richard's Birthday

2011-01-09T06:31:00.000-08:00

...
Besides Birthday in years, what do I share with this 56 Chevy?
Well, that with a little polish we are both still antiques. ;)

Richard's Life @ 56 :)
http://picasaweb.google.com/The.Bayohunter/RichardSLife?authkey=Gv1sRgCKawmeLkgcLd8wE#slideshow/5203562010415654914
And now for my favorite song of all songs:
http://www.youtube.com/v/30bDcvDqBXY&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0

So my Family and Friends whom I Love.
As I squeeze off another round of life, I have only one wish for all of you!
That you celebrate each of your Birthday's with as much passion and conviction as you do your lives!
Remember that, each day that you are alive is a blessing from God.
So keep your eye on the sites, powder dry and your safety off, only when needed!
As I thank all of you for the blessing, of knowing you.
Also I thank God for blessing me with this life.
Sincerely and with Love to you All from,

Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/
P.S. may your Birthday when it arrives, also be Happy! :)

Dream a Little Dream of Me

2011-01-06T05:53:00.001-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/v/r_070zWcEuk?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0
My Mood for this moment Cousins:
If you like = "Dream a Little Dream of Me".
As I "HOPE" that I make it to this September,

then to next Christmas an on an on…
Hey Please Note, that I can say "I Love You"

just as easily to your face as in type. :)
With Love to You All!

from Sir Richard.
P.S. a picture of me @ the pinnacle of my life.
See what God blessed me with! :)
I posted this picture for my Birthday on this Sunday,

another date I made...
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WINTER SNOW

2011-01-01T08:05:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/v/xpHiAmL8-b0?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0

Winter Snow,
Blowing though the holes
in my Jacket.
Is Winter Snow - Sir Richard...
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"HALLELUJAH!"

2010-12-30T08:02:00.001-08:00

"Hallelujah"
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=hN8CKwdosjE

I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do ya?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, and the major lift
The baffled King composing Hallelujah.
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah...

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight, overthrew ya
She tied you to her kitchen chair
She broke your throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah.
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah...

Well, maybe there's a God above
But all I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya
It's not a cry, that you hear at night
It's not someone who's "Seen The Light"
It's a cold and it's a broken and Hallelujah...
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelu...
Hallelujah
Oh yeah you know
Hallelujah
Oh yeah..
Hallelujah
Oh yeah you know
Hallelujah...
Hallelujah
Hallelujah.

With Love for you from God
&
also from Sir Richard...
P.S. May our Next Year be Happier and did you know that Hallelujah is a Hebrew word meaning "Praise Yahweh!". Amen?
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Thank You "For Your Love For Us"

2010-12-20T07:02:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/v/PkiP7y0fauk?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0
Father God.
Thank You, for the blessings of a world with such beauty.
For loved ones, family and friends and simple joys.
Foremost, "Your Love For Us", a most cherished gift under any Christmas tree.
Amen

Merry Christmas! from,
Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

A Prayer for Christmas...

2010-12-17T09:38:00.001-08:00

A Prayer for Christmas...
http://www.youtube.com/v/45wmyMgyZuY?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0
In thy name we "Pray for Peace", Father God.
As Peace Keepers we fail as each year Peace and Good Will alludes us all.
May you grant us this Christmas, the Gift of Peace that we all seek.
In thy name we all pray.
Amen...

A Prayer for Christmas - Sincerely and with Love from,
Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

THE MEANING OF LIFE

2010-12-13T07:07:00.000-08:00

Cousins - THE MEANING OF LIFE
Is simple, that is having someone say "I LOVE YOU" and mean it.
Once said, it can not be taken back but only hidden.
It is never gone...
"I LOVE YOU All"
http://www.youtube.com/v/E4SYYQ18xE4?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0
from - Sir Richard.
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

The Night John Winston Lennon Was Murdered

2010-12-08T05:31:00.000-08:00

First listen to a Great Song:
http://www.youtube.com/v/QmcPgmvLd3s?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0

As I remember:
9:10 pm Calgary City time December 8th 1980, I was in my taxi and it was raining that night.
Very strange for an Albertan winter, as I was mostly concerned about driving on the frozen roads later.
Rain is good though, as it brings me fares so as long as I logged many trips then maybe I could code 6 early that night and skip the city street curling rinks later.
Two hours ahead of me at 11:10 pm New York City time, John Winston Lennon was taken to the emergency room of Roosevelt Hospital and was pronounced dead on arrival.
The news spread across the radio like wild fire, first he was shot but just wounded an then, at 10:00 pm Calgary time just like JFK, it was fatal and John Winston Lennon was no more...
Shock is what hit me first, then rage as I squeezed out as many fares, as I could but my heart was not into my work anymore.

I then was able to code 6 and went home to glue myself to the TV for the next 24 hours. In front of which I mostly I cried and cried like never before, just one more depressing event in my life!
Was it for myself I cried?
Probably, as this was the day my music died 30 years ago today,

just IMAGINE.

(Lennon in NYC = http://video.pbs.org/video/1657689250)

by,
Sir Richard Abbenbroek...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

The Christmas Truce of 1914

2010-12-05T05:37:00.000-08:00

Cousins - This really happened:

The Christmas Truce of 1914 =
http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/christmastruce.htm

A Video of what the Christmas Truce of 1914 was probably like =
http://www.youtube.com/v/fHObCL2luMw?fs=1&%3Bhl=en_US&%3Brel=0

So May Peace One Day Come To Us All!

The Song - Snoopy's Christmas =
http://www.youtube.com/v/Z9-pnSfHP_E?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0

So I Wish You All,
"A Merry Christmas!"
with Love from Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

A Canadian Christmas Carol = The "Huron Carol"

2010-12-02T08:00:00.000-08:00

The "Huron Carol"

http://www.youtube.com/v/D6IG6F6E5Ac?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0

The "Huron Carol" (or "'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime") is a Christmas hymn, written in 1643 by Jean de Brébeuf, a Christian missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons in Canada. Brébeuf wrote the lyrics in the native language of the Huron/Wendat people; the song's original Huron title is "Jesous Ahatonhia" ("Jesus, he is born"). The song's melody is a traditional French folk song, "Une Jeune Pucelle" ("A Young Maid"). The well known English lyrics were written in 1926 by Jesse Edgar Middleton. This version is performed by Heather Dale, and sung in Wendat (Huron), French and English.

Ehstehn yayau deh tsaun we yisus ahattonnia
O na wateh wado:kwi nonnwa 'ndasqua entai
ehnau sherskwa trivota nonnwa 'ndi yaun rashata
Iesus Ahattonnia, Ahattonnia, Iesus Ahattonnia.

Ayoki onki hm-ashe eran yayeh raunnaun
yauntaun kanntatya hm-deh 'ndyaun sehnsatoa ronnyaun
Waria hnawakweh tond Yosehf sataunn haronnyaun
Iesus Ahattonnia, Ahattonnia, Iesus Ahattonnia.

Chretiens, prenez courage,
Jesus Sauveur est ne!
Du malin les ouvrages
A jamais sont ruines.
Quand il chante merveille,
A ces troublants appas
Ne pretez plus l'oreille:
Jesus est ne, Iesus Ahattonnia.

Oyez cette nouvelle,
Dont un ange est porteur!
Oyez! ames fideles,
Et dilatez vos coeurs.
La Vierge dans l'etable
Entoure de ses bras
L'Enfant-Dieu adorable.
Jesus est ne, Iesus Ahattonnia.

Let Christian men take heart today
The devil's rule is done;
Let no man heed the devil more,
For Jesus Christ is come
But hear ye all what angels sing:
How Mary Maid bore Jesus King.
Iesus Ahattonnia, Jesus is born, Iesus Ahattonnia.

Three chieftains saw before Noel
A star as bright as day,
"So fair a sign," the chieftains said,
"Shall lead us where it may."
For Jesu told the chieftains three:
"The star will bring you here to me."
Iesus Ahattonnia, Jesus is born, Iesus Ahattonnia.

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM CANADA!
For you with Love, from Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

I am thinking about you...

2010-12-01T06:07:00.001-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/v/UV4F2yfEt9o?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0
This is for those whom I love.
One of my Christmas favorites as I think of you, like I often do.
For I dream of our past good times and better times yet to come, yes they will to.
As once again just thinking about you.
With Love - from Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

Laughing With

2010-11-13T09:54:00.001-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/v/TI44iXHlRxk?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0

No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one’s laughing at God
When they’re starving or freezing or so very poor

No one laughs at God when the doctor calls
After some routine tests
No one’s laughing at God
when it’s gotten real late
And their kid’s not back from that party yet

No one laughs at God when their airplane
Starts to uncontrollably shake
No one’s laughing at God
When they see the one they love hand in hand
with someone else and they hope that they’re mistaken

No one laughs at God when the cops knock on their door
And they say “We’ve got some bad news, sir,”
No one’s laughing at God
When there’s a famine, fire or flood

But God can be funny
At a cocktail party while listening to a good God-themed joke or
When the crazies say He hates us
and they get so red in the head
You think that they’re about to choke

God can be funny
When told He’ll give you money if you just pray the right way
And when presented like a genie
Who does magic like Houdini
Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus

God can be so hilarious
Ha ha, ha ha

No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one’s laughing at God
when they’ve lost all they got
And they don’t know what for

No one laughs at God on the day they realize
that the last sight they’ll ever see is a pair of hateful eyes
No one’s laughing at God
When they’re saying their goodbyes

But God can be funny
At a cocktail party while listening to a good God-themed joke or
When the crazies say He hates us and they get so red in the head
you think that they’re about to choke

God can be funny
When told He’ll give you money if you just pray the right way
And when presented like a genie
Who does magic like Houdini
Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus
God can be so hilarious

No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one’s laughing at God in a hospital
No one’s laughing at God in a war

No one’s laughing at God
When they’re starving or freezing or so very poor

No one’s laughing at God
No one’s laughing at God
No one’s laughing at God
We’re all “laughing with God”

Posted for you by,
Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

Remembrance Day 2010 Lest We Forget

2010-11-11T05:33:00.001-08:00

Private William Broughton, of Sydney, Cape Breton Canada.
“My Great Uncle” Who died at the 18th General Hospital, France, on the 6th day of September, 1916, from wounds received at the Battle of Courcelette part of the battle of the Somme, on his 21st year of his age.
This is for all those who have served and are serving
For those who have suffered and those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for all of us!
WE NEED TO REMEMBER ALWAYS!!
"Please Remember Me"
http://www.youtube.com/v/VB8itzVuFKA&hl=en&fs=1
UPDATE: To date 152 Canadian soldiers whom

have lost their lives in Afghanistan.

The number of US soldiers whom have lost their lives

in both Iraq/Afghanistan is now 5,772.
"The Green Fields Of France"
http://www.youtube.com/v/xa1nG4ezPQ0?fs=1&%3Bhl=en_US&%3Brel=0
NOTE: The sad thing for me is that I will now never get to visit my Great Uncle’s grave in France but then again,

we will meet in heaven.
Lest We Forget!

from,

Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

Anyway - With Friends Such As You

2010-11-06T08:55:00.000-07:00

With friends such as you all,
quality as well as quantity in my life becomes a reality.
Anyway.
http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=59137806
With love,
from Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

I Am A Warrior

2010-11-04T18:22:00.000-07:00

Cousins, like Lionel in this video I am also a Warrior.
http://www.youtube.com/v/MhbtDpU9-bU?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0
Like him this is also my battle and for some,

you may have to join us.

Victory will be Ours!
Just Watch Me.

From
Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

THE MEANING OF LIFE

2010-10-23T20:11:00.000-07:00

Cousins - THE MEANING OF LIFE
Is simple, that is having someone say "I LOVE YOU" and mean it.
Once said, it can not be taken back but only hidden. It is never gone.
"I LOVE YOU All"
http://www.youtube.com/v/UrIiLvg58SY?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0
from - Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

FRACK!!!!

2010-10-16T07:54:00.000-07:00

FRACK!!!
http://www.youtube.com/v/42nATmBUg5A?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0
Cousins, I've been so sick these last weeks.
Either due to infection and now pain!
Pills make me sick, I feel just like this song... FRACK!!!!
Sorry to cry out but I had another really bad night.
from Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

GoodBye - For All Who Are Missed!

2010-10-12T07:07:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/v/cq5VBWN15Lo?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0

Occurred to me the other day
You've been gone now a couple years
Well I guess it takes a while
For someone to really disappear
And I remember where I was
When the word came about you
It was a day much like today
The sky was bright and wide and blue

And I wonder where you are
And if the pain ends when you die
And I wonder if there was
Some better way to say good-bye

Today my heart is big and sore
It's trying to push right through my skin
Won't see you anymore
I guess that's finally sinking in
Cause you can't make somebody see
With the simple words you say
All their beauty from within
Sometimes they just look away

And I wonder where you are
And if the pain ends when you die
And I wonder if there was
Some better way to say good-bye...

Posted for you all - from Sir Richard.
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

Sir Richard's - Team Hope 2010

2010-10-08T06:45:00.000-07:00

Hello Cousins!
These are a Team Hope 2010 slide show
of pictures (my idea of artsy) that I took.
Or a better title yet, "Sunrise/Sunset At 30,000 Feet Plus"
Anyway, I hope you enjoy my attempt at eye candy for you all.
To give a full screen view just hit your F11 key,
to enlarge this slide show right after you click on this link:
http://picasaweb.google.com/The.Bayohunter/TeamHope2010?authkey=Gv1sRgCOa17_3J-8-IowE#slideshow/5525441919779433170
Sincerely and with Love,

Sir Richard...
And now for a flying song:
http://www.youtube.com/v/1BPoMIQHwpo?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0

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Good Morning Cousins This Is For All!

2010-09-12T07:17:00.000-07:00

Psalm 37:3-5

Trust in the LORD and do good;
dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.
Delight yourself in the LORD
and He will give you the desires of your heart.
Commit your way to the LORD;
trust in Him and He will do this.
http://www.youtube.com/v/iXx3hgBvako?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0

from - Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

This 9/11 Day Of Remembrance.

2010-09-11T08:41:00.000-07:00

Cousins, this is my final thought on this 9/11 Day Of Remembrance.
With this mornings taken photo and a musical thought to share with all of you:
http://www.youtube.com/v/uNBKfNo9Pu0?fs=1&%3Bhl=en_US&%3Brel=0

from - Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

Why We Are There - Afghanistan - Sept.11th 2010

2010-09-06T10:03:00.000-07:00

Why We Are There Canada - Afghanistan
http://www.youtube.com/v/Z3yLborFuJ8?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0

It Is September The 11th, From Me To You

http://www.youtube.com/v/O0-0PtHNHQU&rel=1

It is a crisp, cool, foggy fall day.
My walk with Tribble dog is now through.
It is September the 11th, from me to you.

Frantic emails from friends at work,

It’s on the net and radio,

can you see this on your home TV?
A small plane crash, like Patsy Cline’s Mountain but is it all true?
It is September the 11th, from me to you.

The anchorwoman says that there is just a little bit of falling debris.
“Oh my God!” the whole freaking building is coming down,

is what I see!
4 – 5 – 6 more planes are on the way?
No one has a clue…
It is September the 11th, from me to you.

My wife and I are now going to work, past the Calgary International Airport we go.
We see all the passenger planes parked wing tip to wing tip,

row upon row.
No jet contrails, no aircraft sounds

and for the first time in my life,

only the birds flew.
It is September the 11th, from me to you.

Our minds are not on our work,

as we are numb through this whole day.
For we hear stories of those who died,

helping those who had to stay.
Later more stories of those who bravely stopped the evil that flew.
It is September the 11th, from me to you.

Entombed in the mountains of debris are up to 3,000 dead,

what can one do?
To fight the evil of man,

God has shown me the same as you.
That we must help those who are down,

troubled and stand up for love and what is true.
For from this hell we should have learned,

that this was our wake up call,
that we all went through.
It is September the 11th, from me to you.

Written by Sir Richard…
For September 11th, 2010
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

Re: Cousins - Life

2010-09-02T07:01:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/v/MriHyt8S2P4?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0

Cousins -
All of our strife and pain we share or give to each other.
Along with expectations of others mean
NOTHING! FREAKING NOTHING!!!
What matters is Love and sharing Love,
along with your quality of LIFE...
So live your Lives to the fullest my Cousins -
Love as many without shame.
From Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

Because I am a Bonafide, Man Of Constant Sorrow

2010-08-26T08:16:00.000-07:00

Cousins - A Song For Today!
http://www.youtube.com/v/08e9k-c91E8?fs=1&hl=en_US
Because I am a Bonafide, Man Of Constant Sorrow...
from - Sir Richard ;)
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

Eric Randall Sommerfeldt - RIP

2010-08-17T12:58:00.000-07:00

F.Y.I.:
Eric Randall Sommerfeldt

July 29, 1946 – August 10, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/v/_hu8w3fdi_c?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0
Eric, beloved husband of Lorna of Calgary, passed away on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at the age of 64 years.
It is well known that Eric served the community with passion and dedication for his entire working life.
One of the reasons that I became a Volunteer for Child Find Alberta

and Team Hope.
Sadly I just found out today that Eric has already been laid to rest in Cardston Cemetery in Cardston, Alberta.
http://www.legacy.com/can-calgary/Obituaries.asp?page=lifestory&personid=144636584
Eric gave me the strength and the help when I needed it to recover

my daughter 21 years ago.
He also taught me what it means to be a Volunteer and he is one of the reasons that I still volunteer with, Team Hope to this day!
For you will be missed Eric but I will never forget you.
May God also give your family the strength to go through this very difficult time.
May You Rest In Peace Eric.
Sincerely with Tears,

Richard…
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

Vacation 2010

2010-08-13T10:36:00.001-07:00

We Are Back!
These are not my best photos but I tried, eh?.
Our vacation was very restful, sadly we could not travel as far as I wanted to. Boating was out as it only stayed sunny occasionally, the boat rental day was rainy. So, basically, we stayed around my in-laws beautiful home on Martin Mountain and CHILLED :)
To view on a larger screen just click on your F11 key after you click on the below sideshow link:
http://picasaweb.google.com/The.Bayohunter/Vacation2010?authkey=Gv1sRgCJm3n-_8rsXHvQE#slideshow/5504935511312116594
I hope you enjoy them,
from,
Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

A Flying Lancaster Bomber

2010-08-03T14:56:00.000-07:00

This is one of the two remaining flying Lancaster Bombers

in the world.
The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum’s

Mynarski Memorial Lancaster
flew into Calgary today and these are my photos of it's arrival.
This Lancaster Bomber is 65 years old and I hope I look as good,

when I am 65!
http://picasaweb.google.com/The.Bayohunter/AFlyingLancasterBomber?authkey=Gv1sRgCND6nObc0OC-xQE#slideshow/5501296367407268642

And now for some Music to view my photos with:
http://www.youtube.com/v/SMh0qtY2IcU&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0

I hope you enjoy these.
From - Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

For My Wife From Sir Richard...

2010-08-03T09:11:00.001-07:00

For My Wife From Sir Richard...
http://www.youtube.com/v/CRhEvjyk_dc&hl=en_US&fs=1?rel=0

At times I just don't know
How you could be anything but beautiful
I think that I was made for you
And you were made for me

And I know that I will never change
Cause we've been friends through rain or shine
For such a long, long time

Laughing eyes and smiling face
It's seems so lucky just to have the right
Of telling you with all my might
You're beautiful tonight

And I know that you will never stray
Cause ya been that way from day to day
For such a long, long time

And when ya hold me tight
How could life be anything but beautiful
I think that I was made for you
And you were made for me

And I know that I will never change
Cause we've been friends through rain or shine
For such a long, long time

And I must say that it means so much to me
Just to be the one who's telling you
I'm telling you
That you're beautiful...
**************

http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

Canadian Please :)

2010-07-25T11:53:00.000-07:00

For those of you who are blind like this older Canadian, please use the below link.
To View:

"For The I Know You Want To Be; Canadian Please!"

So For Instructions:
Click Here, Eh??
http://www.youtube.com/v/mWQf13B8epw&hl=en_US&fs=1?rel=0

from,
Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

A Martina McBride Fan

2010-07-19T20:31:00.000-07:00

I was at the Martina McBride concert last night at the Calgary Stampede

and it was Great!!!! :)

So here are my photos of my favorite singer, I hope you find them enjoyable.

http://picasaweb.google.com/The.Bayohunter/MartinaMcBrideFan?authkey=Gv1sRgCKaS89fqpsKDXw#slideshow/5495805765278923906

Also a song that she sings and means so much it's almost, God's Will:

http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=5184696

from,
Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/

Love From Your Heart

2010-07-04T12:05:00.001-07:00

Love From Your Heart

http://www.youtube.com/v/lCUqdYP1GRo&hl=en_US&fs=1?rel=0

Does Love from your heart, dissipate like chimney smoke?
Or is it rock hard like granite, lasting for all of our eternities...
Do you stop Loving someone that you once Loved or have lost?
I think not, you store it and bring it out like a photo album.
To view and at times even share but it is stored and never stops.
Can you Love more than one person,
or is your personality like that of a single railway track?
Never diverting only going one direction and never to be shared,
I think not.
Love, is like the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
Racing out to as many as one needs to move on and always centered back.
To the Love from your heart...

by,
Sir Richard...
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/