#Celebrate Canada

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Happy 🍁Canada Day🍁Long Weekend!

Hope you all have an awesome long weekend! From all of us at Cascade Handcrafted Log & Timber Frame Homes!

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you think YOU had a bad day at work?

bonus: sid shrieking "no!!!! NO!!!!!" loud enough to be heard in the stands and on camera

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How strong you are | Jessie Fleming x Chelsea!Reader

5k celebration prompt: "Your scars don’t make you weak, they show how strong you are."

Woso masterlist | Words: 1k

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Your first day back in training after your injury. It felt like something big, especially because it was the first major injury you’ve had since the start of your career. Where your girlfriend had been excited for your return to the pitch, you were mainly feeling nervous.

The recovery had been a lot. Both mentally and physically it had been a struggle. Your girlfriend has been with you every step of the way. Without Jessie by your side, you don’t think you would have made it through. She had been your rock throughout the whole recovery journey.

She was downstairs, cleaning up after breakfast while you were getting changed into your training gear. Jessie hadn’t expected you to take so long, so she went up to check on you. She found you in your training top, but still in just your underwear for bottoms. A pair of training shorts and joggers laid in front of you on the bed.

Your eyes moved between them like you were trying to solve a puzzle. She sat down on the edge of the bed and waited for you to meet her eyes. When you finally did, she smiled your way. “Tell me what you’re thinking?”

“I don’t know which to wear to training.” Jessie had a feeling of the underlying reason, but she knew it would be better if you talked about your feelings, so she asked you anyways. “Oh, yeah? Why is that?”

With a shrug of your shoulders you sat down on the bed with her. Your eyes settled on your knee, the fresh surgery scar staring back at you. Jessie knew then that her suspicion was right, still she wanted you to be the one to say it, so she stayed quiet and let you take your time. 

She reached for your hand, her fingers interlocking with yours, offering a quiet reassurance as you sifted through your thoughts. Her touch grounded you, like an anchor in a storm, reminding you that she'd be there to catch you if you fell.

Still the words, “Nevermind,” Came out of your mouth, “I’ll just wear the joggers.” You started getting up, but Jessie used your intertwined hands to keep you down. “Baby, you hate wearing joggers for training.”

You shrugged, “I am allowed to change my mind.” Jessie knew you had a point, of course you were allowed to change your mind, but she knew there was more to it than that. “You are allowed to change your mind every day of the week, and I will support you no matter what. But baby, you hate joggers with a passion. You wear shorts even in the middle of Canadian winter.”

Her comment made you chuckle, she was right of course. The tightness of joggers had always been the reason you hated to wear them. Even the cold bothered you less than training in joggers, and that says a lot when you know how cold it can get in Canada.

“I know, I do hate them and I will never change my mind on them. But my scar. Everyone will see it. Everyone will see that my body is weak, that I am weak. I’d rather be uncomfortable than weak.”

You had been wearing your shorts to your gym sessions over your recovery period, but that was just you and the trainer, plus occasionally Jessie who came to check in. The trainer was more than accustomed to injured players and their rehabilitation, so there you hadn’t really minded. This time it would be in front of the whole team, and you didn’t know how to feel about that.

Even though Jessie had guessed that this was the underlying reason, it still hurt hearing you say it like that. Did you really think you were weak? She didn’t give herself much time to think about that though, she wanted to reassure you right away.

"Your scars don’t make you weak, they show how strong you are." She took your other hand in hers as well. “They show that despite something going wrong, you overcame it. You got back up, and took care of your body. That already makes you strong, and what makes you even stronger, is that you are not just recovering from an injury, you’re getting back from it.”

Jessie was so good with her words that you were tearing up a little. “Do you really think so?” She smiled and gave your hands a reassuring squeeze. “I know so. While you haven’t been on the pitch yet, I can tell from your sessions in the gym that you are going to come back stronger.”

You pulled Jessie in for a hug after that, thanking her for always being there for you. Together you stayed like that for a moment, before Jessie pulled away. “Alright, we have to leave in a bit. I’ll go put our stuff in the car. Go put on some bottoms you’re comfortable with today, and I’ll meet you downstairs, okay?” 

“Yeah, I’ll be right down. Thank you Jess, you’re the best.” You pecked her lips and watched her walk out of the room. Leaving you to choose which bottoms to wear by yourself.

You eyed the shorts and the joggers a final time, now less puzzled than before. Jessie had been right, you despised joggers, and you were proud of all of your teammates and friends you had seen come back from injuries, so why not you?

So, with a new sense of confidence you grabbed the shorts and put them on. You knew you’d still be thinking about what others thought, that wouldn’t just go away of course, but you knew that your scar wasn’t something you should be self conscious about.

Jessie smiled wide when she saw you walk into the living room. “That’s my girl.” She hugged you tight. “I am so proud of you. And I cannot wait to see you out on the pitch again, continuing to take care of your body, and working towards your full comeback.”

With her arm still around your shoulder, she walked you to the car. “You are going to do amazing today.” She said with a kiss to your cheek before you drove off to training.

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"Hey, listen. I've got a bit of bone to pick with you here. I know you're gonna be representing Team USA in the 4 Nations Cup. Your dad, Keith, represented team USA before but what's going on? Why aren't you thinking about representing Canada? Your mom, Chantal, is from Canada, right? She's from Winnipeg. What's going on here? And have you thought about representing team Canada instead of the US?" "No, never in my life. I'm an American through and through, I would ne—I would never—I would never play for them that's been... I'm as... I'm as American as it gets. I think if you ask my brother, and my dad that too, we'll say the same thing." "You get your toughness from your mom, we know that."

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with hat trick, your player of the game is... | wjc 2025 pre tournament - can v sui | Dec 19th 2024

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New photos of Elizabeth Olsen on the set of ‘Eternity’ in Vancouver today.

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Chloe Morgane

[paperuniverse]

America: “Guys! This celebrity just announced they’re going on a North American tour!! How awesome!!”

Canada: “Oh, that’s cool.”

Mexico: “Fun, what cities are they going to?”

America: “Lots! Look here!”

America: *Shows them the list on their phone.*

Canada: “They’re only coming to Toronto?? And for one night?! Why does this always happen…”

Mexico: “I’M NOT EVEN ON HERE!!”

America: “You two are such buzzkills.”

Canada and Mexico: 😒😒

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🍗Today's Merch Is...🍗

Nanatsu no Taizai Acrylic Keychain (Ichika)!

[mrskennedy]

John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy stand alongside the Canadian Prime Minister and his wife in Ottawa on May 18th, 1961.

[roszabell]

soooooo what got you into prucan in the first place?

when i started watching hetalia, i just fell in love with the characters!! i dont rememver if i saw fanart of them together first or if i just started shipping them from my own brain, but it was almost immediate 😂 i got super obsessed with cana, in everyway, and then i saw pru and i was like. thats the coolest fucking guy ive ever seen AND hes a loser?? they were both hot and it was as easy as "theyre both invisible and misunderstood 🥺" and also the prussia death fics really hooked me

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Canada Day Fireworks in Ottawa

Photo Courtesy of Fiona Mitchell

[sadiewithlove]

hi everyone!! i rlly rlly need some f1 friends bc my irls are very much not into motorsports & i need someone to support my delusions (and understand them). pls consider this an official application <33

[rabbitcruiser]

Yellowknife, NWT (No. 13)

The lake is mostly underlain by a mix of volcanic and plutonic igneous rock. Most of it is the same Archean basalt greenstone belt that predominates in the Yellowknife area. Running through the central portion from north northeast, under the heritage centre and Legislative Assembly building, to south southwest is a narrow belt of dacite flanked by two gabbro sills (one of which forms the largest island), with some more dacite under the visitor's centre and the southern of the two points of the western peninsula. Small diabase dykes run through various portions of the bedrock, with the largest forming the elevated area at the lake's southeast corner. Quartz intrusions are visible in some areas.

Two local faults run across the south end of the lake. The stream from Robinson's Pond runs along the Pud Fault, which continues across the lakebed to McNiven Beach. At the south end is the larger Kam Fault, which when it was active had the same potential for earthquakes as the San Andreas Fault in the U.S. state of California. It divides the basalt from an area of lighter granite and granodiorite between the lake and the hospital.

Source: Wikipedia

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