U.S. - Canada relations

            A Canadian friend of ours said that watching American politics is like passing a gruesome traffic accident.
            “How is that?”
            “You feel like you should avert your eyes; it has nothing to do with you, but the astonishing scale of wreckage makes it impossible to look away.”  
 
My 60th year in 60,000 words
Day 32: 47 words, TOTAL = 4700; 55,300 remaining

(I know - it's not a maple leaf, but it was the best I could do on the fly.)