Here we go again. My plan is to bring part two up to six hundred and then the number of posts will be easier to keep track of. Within a few days we will be within one month of the date.
I think everything is going pretty smoothly. We have the student lounge at Campion on the 25th from 12:00 until 10:00. The plan is for each family to bring their own drinks and snacks for the day. I think Vic is bringing some candied popcorn and there are plans for a rice crispie cake. I expect some Italian Confetti as well. The Wok Box is now up and running and we will have them deliver us a meal around 5:30 or 6:00. There are vending machines in the lounge and a water fountain as well. The restrooms are a good size and just down the hall. I believe we all have Marcia's request for denim and white dress. Therese has the performances set and the day is set for visiting.
Sunday the 26th we have the hall at Holy Rosary Cathedral from 12:00 until 5:00. You are welcome to join mom for the 11:00 mass before hand. The CWL will cater with sandwiches, coffee and juice. Cathedral Bakery is making up a cake or two for mom for the day.
If there are any questions or if there is something else you can think of that I have missed let me know and I'll look after it.
See you soon.
Ed
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God bless, Mommy & Daddy. God bless all of us children. May we all lead holy, healthy, useful lives. May we all die happy deaths. May we all fulfill the purpose for which we were made and thank You for everything. Amen.
I think that's the answer to your latest riddle, Louise.
LOL,
ME xoxoxoxo
That prayer pretty much covers it all, doesn't it?
Oh my goodness, could we have spoken too soon. Lead is only one.
nevermind
Go Tiger! 2007 victor and four time PGA Champion.
Lucy
i've always said holy happy usefull lives, is it that or holy healthy usefull lives? lucy can you check with mom and let us know, i need clarification.
thks - mike
i guess we could say holy happy healthy usefull lives.
still wondering
mike
Mike,
You're right! It IS holy, happy, useful lives. Good eye.
Love,
ME xoxoxoxoxo
Hey Guys
Maybe I should change my guess to 4500 entries by August 25.
Marty
Whew!! some catching up again.
Some random thoughts:
Kahless loves to swim underwater more than on top. Many times, he goes under, and I think "something's wrong, he's been under too long". Suddenly, he quietly comes to the surface. Now I know what they mean by 'your spirit will live on in future generations".
Mom's prayer says it all - it is the one prayer I still say every day. The world would do well to live by that one.
A little correction: Grandma's cottage was Nick Nack Nook, I believe. Can anyone confirm?
Frank Dancevic is now 71st in the world.
If it weren't for that pool table at 1140, I may not have met Dennis. He would come to play pool with ED, and I made sure her noticed me.
Lots of love, Marcia
Who was he kidding, he never came to play pool with me, I was the one who had to try to make him notice the pool table.
Hello everybody
I didn't have time to read all the entries since my last entry so I hope this one hasn't been put up yet and I hope i'm not stepping on your toes louise but i have a riddle for you.
COMING BACK FROM THE BEACH,
A STATEMENT SHE MADE WHEN HOME WAS WITHIN REACH
CONGRATULATIONS!!! THE ANTONINI (the Lui and Mary branch, at least) IS COMPLETE. The one, printed, test-run copy looks great. We will bring it with us on the 24th.
Thanks for all of the really great cooperation - you will be pleased with the result.
Bob
Marcia,
I tried confriming with Jo about the name of Grandma A's cottage before putting it in 'sightings on the blog' but she could not remember and neither could Mom. I thought there was one big K in front of nick nack nook, but I may be wrong. I will see if Joan Daley remembers.
Love, BJ
I was going to send a comment this morning and wish everybody a good morning and to have a great day...but I have no time, I'm too busy building a kite.
Sorry
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a Grandparent.
- Sam Levenson
Dedicated to all the Grandmas & Grandpas out there in Blogland.
11 more sleeps!!
Love,
ME xoxoxoxoo
Good eye, Mary-Ellen,
Though your answer to my latest riddle raised a question over whether we prayed for "happy" or "healthy" lives, you made the words of that simple, yet complete family prayer resound again in our hearts.
I was not surprised to learn that some of us still pray those words every day. Mom was especially pleased to hear that.
I listened to Mom with childhood emotion as she prayed those words aloud for me to confirm that "happy" is used twice - once in relation to life and then in relation to death.
Like Thom says .... that pretty well covers it all, doesn't it?
Mike, Mom thinks "healthy" fits nicely, too. You made us laugh; and we've heard that laughter is good for the soul.
Here is yet another riddle:
OUR COUNTRY GOES FROM SEA TO SEA.
AND FOR A WHILE, SO DID WE!
LOLOL, Lucy
Robert .... You don't have to worry about stepping on my toes by posting a riddle. Mom and I are eager to enter a possible answer here.
Mom, herself, does not remember her exact words but she thinks she might have said: "Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home", or "Home, sweet, home", or "Highways are happy ways when they lead the way to home."
Whatever her words, Mom was always happy to return to the city after a stay at Regina Beach.
Are we close enough to be given credit for answering your riddle?
Love, Mom and Lucy
That's another great quote Mary-Ellen. You take the sting out of being old enough to be a grandparent. We are playful kids at heart.
Love, Lucy
Rob,
I think Mom used to say 'There she lies, the Queen City of the Plains' when Regina came into sight. I say it to the girls whenever we come back from a road trip.
Louise,
I think yours refers to when you lived in Port Alice and Mary Ellen lived in St. John's, Newfoundland (now Newfoundland and Labrador.
By the way did you hear the one about when they were renaming that province? They had four options:
Newfrador
Labraland
Newfoundland and Labrador
The Roughriders
I think the best one won out.
Thérèse
Ed, ... that is going to be some kite when you finally get it built ... with or without Tony's unique instructions.
Our eldest brother is in Saskatoon today for one of his regular check-ups. Maybe he'll spot a kite flying somewhere along the way and be reminded of past reunion days and future possibilities.
Whatever happens, we are all keen to see your kite rise up into the air over Last Mountain Lake on August 25th. We promise not to let Len cut the string so we can go kite hunting once more for old times' sake.
Lucy
OOps, August 24th ...
Kite-flying is not part of our Saturday plans.
Oh yes, Therese,
My latest riddle does refer to a time when the Brockett branch of the family tree put down roots in Newfoundland. By then, the Pinvidic and Butcher branches were both firmly planted on Vancouver Island.
Over the years, Mom and Dad managed to visit family in points as far east as St. John's, Newfoundland; as far west as Port Alice, B.C.; as far north as Whitehorse, Yukon; and as far south as Ottawa, Ontario. They were always welcome guests in our homes across Canada.
I wonder how many guesses will be needed for bloggers to figure out this next riddle:
WHATEVER FIGURES WE MAY CHASE,
THIS YEAR, ONE NUMBER HOLDS TOP PLACE.
LOLOL, Lucy
Thom ... I spoke to Vic on the phone today. She tells me that Don wants to play in the Monday, August 27th family golf tournament.
So.....please add Don Wohlberg to the competitors list and watch out golfers!
Lucy
Marcia .... I love your reminder that one's spirit lives on in future generations. That a too-long submerged grandchild would spark such a realization is awesome. Go Kahless, go Great-grandpa!
Now I think I have something in my eye.
Lucy
Okay, Rob,
Mom and I concede to Therese. Though we discussed all the possible comments Mom might have made in the homeward stretch, we never came up with the obvious.
As soon as I told Mom what Therese had answered, she said: "Oh, yes, I did say that more than once or twice as soon as Regina appeared in the distance".
Mom thinks she remembers Bob Barker once adding something about the "Queen City of the prairies" being (with revisions)....the sizable Queen Victoria sitting on her ample bottom.
Now, does that sound like something Bob would say?
LOLOL, Lucy
Thanks for the general applause, Bob, but you deserve most of the congratulations on the completion of our family tree.
All we had to do was send pictures and it took us several months to provide you with the stuff you needed to cut and paste, crop and enter, save and print. Well done!
Do you need any reminders from us to be sure to pack the finished product before you leave Ottawa for Regina?
Like the people it displays, that tree just has to be here for our reunion!
Lucy
Lucy here again,
Here's an update on blog entry guesses:
These three people with low guesses are eliminated:
Marty 2319
Thom 2393
Louise 2425
These six are still in there:
Thom 2460 (revised - uh,oh)
Lui 2508
Mike 2777
Trish 2860
Ed 3000
Marty 4500 (revised - how many?)
Laughing Lucy
Louise,
Is that number 90 - a number that Betty Jo has been delighting Mom with every month - and a number we'll be celebrating in both August of '07 and January of '08?
I'm snickering about the guesses for the number of blog entries because it reminds me of one of Mom's pet peeves.
When she used to watch The Price is Right and people had to guess the closest price for the prizes without going over, I remember it used to bug her when someone guessed one dollar higher than someone else. It meant that the only way the first guess could win was to be right on the money - that happened very rarely.
So in homage to Mom, I'm going to give Mike a better chance than myself and go one LESS than him instead. That makes my guess 2776.
Thérèse
i'm changing my guess to 2775 lol
Mom,
Bob doesn't remember making the comment about Queen Victoria, but if you want to attribute it to him, he doesn't mind.And in any case, he says, the statement is true.
Love, BJ
Hi Marcia,
I talked to Joan, and she agrees with you that the cottage was named Nick Nack Nook. And she lived there for a long time, so I think it is safe to say you are correct. Good eye, as some of your siblings would say.
Love, BJ
Luce, I already added Don. If he hadn't played we could have razzed him for bailing, hahahaha.
Also, a comment like that about Queen Victoria definitely sounds like something my dad might have said.
Hi Louise
you may very well be right mom has said those things before but it was therese's answer I was looking for and I was telling Bonnie about it last night when we were returning from Minot and I said to her Mom always said "there she lies the Queen city of the plains" however i also said I wasn't sure when she started saying it. she may not have said it when you old foogies were young but she did when we were kids and Bonnie really likes it. I remember mom used to say it when we would see the city just after the weight scales. I wonder how many of us recall this.
I've totally given up on my revised guess and am now cheering on Ed to 3,000.
With 11 sleeps to go, as ME so eloquently put it, that's only 51 or 52 per day. WE CAN DO IT!
Mary-Ellem says 11 more sleeps, tomorrow I'll be able to start counting down without taking my socks off.
I'd stick around and blog some more but I'm too busy building a kite.
Later
I'm going to make a guess 2888
If anyone is wondering why 2888 for those who haven't seen me lately i look a little bit like an 8
I wanna make another guess to. I'm guessing my kite's not going to fly.
I create a new recipe tonight that turned out to be delicious.
In case anybody is interested:
Stuffed Green Peppars (with a couple of twists)
3 Cups Cooked Basmati Rice
1 Dozen Large White Mushrooms
1/2 Large Yellow Onion
6 Cloves Fresh Garlic
1/4 Cup of Butter (preferred) or Olive Oil
6 Large Green Peppars
1 Large Over-ripe Tomato
1 Lime
Fresh Ground Salt and Black Pepper to taste
1/2 Cup Crumbled Feta Cheese
1/2 Cup Grated Mozzarella Cheese
1 Bottle or Can of Beer
Start preparing rice.
Heat butter or oil in a skillet.
Finely chop onion, garlic and mushrooms. Simmer until soft.
Meanwhile, chop off tops of peppars. Remove stem from top, but keep rest of top intact. Clean out body of peppars. Set aside.
When rice is ready, preheat oven to 375 F.
Finely chop tomato and mix with rice along with juice of lime, mushroom mix, salt, pepper and feta cheese.
Stuff peppars.
Replace top of peppars and plug hole with mozzarella cheese.
Pour beer into roasting pan, add peppars and cover.
Bake for 45 minutes, then remove lid and bake another 10 to 15 minutes.
Enjoy.
How about that? Mike Weir got the nod over Stephen Ames to play in the President's Cup next month at Royal Montreal.
The real conundrum, however, is how did either of them make it?
I figured Gary Player had to pick a Canadian because of where it's being played, but I can just see him sitting there going: "Holy Moley, I wish there was a Canadian who is worthy."
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Weir, but seriously, what has he done since he won the Masters? Sure, he was 20th on the points list, but that dates back a while. He has a winning record in previous President's Cups, but that also goes back a while. It would have been nice if he had a good showing at the PGA, but he missed the cut. The best finish he's had all year was T8 and hasn't won in three years. He hasn't even been on the radar in the majors except for one round.
Ames, well, even if he had won the PGA, he isn't really a Canadian, now is he? And that's not to mention his 9 and 8 thumping by Tiger in match play last year.
I hope Player proves me wrong, but I bet he'd like to petition the judge for a change of venue right about now.
Hey Thomas
I think the reason Gary picked Mike is because he's a nice guy.
Here's what the conversation may have been...
Looks like Ames is playing better than Weir...
Yeah, but Ames went and rattled Tiger's cage and then Sabatini added his little bit and now the tiger is out of his cage roaring like mad. Now the game isn't fair anymore...
We can't let anyone get Tiger mad again... Let's pick Mike... Tiger likes Mike.
I'm pretty sure that's what actually happened.
Marty
*
Marty, you're right
I knew it was political.
Hah! i just finished cutting the sticks for the kite. I'm starting to understand the title of T-Bone's instructions.
The GO FLY A KITE Project...AKA...Six feet tall and a mile high...or AKA...Three foot six and I hope we can get it off the ground.
I can't believe all this wrangling over a kite. With those prairie winds you should be able to tie a house to a string and get it off the ground. :-)
Let's go fly a house
Up to the highest height
Let's go fly a house and send it soaring
Up through the stratosphere
Up where the air is clear
Let's go fly a house
Mmmmm, Julie Andrews
Well, Thomas.
I saw some mullions in a house I was working on today so I kinda ripped them out of the window for my sticks. Then seeing as the chicken wire hadn't been applied for the stucco yet I was able to tear enough house wrap off for my paper. The electricians were using this great string for fishing wires today and I'm sure they can get more at the shop, so I have my string, and I cut some strips out of the California shag they were laying in the master bedroom, it will be perfect for the tail and I'm sure they can stretch it back to the wall. So I'm all set and I guess you could say I will be flying a house.
Ed, that would have been fascinating, if I had any clue what you were talking about.
You may not be an Antonini if you have an aversion to construction work bordering on paranoia.
I did catch the bit about California shag? Are people still doing that? For that matter, do people really still use carpet?
I am looking forward to seeing that puppy fly, however. Sounds exciting and innovative.
The first reviews are in on my Stuffed Green Peppars.
1. Too much lime.
2. Not enough cheese.
Both matters of personal taste. Adjust as needed.
Hey! There's only ten days left to the reunion, just one thing left to do...PANIC!!!!
Good morning and have a great day.
It is amazing that we are obviously going to exceed my guess of 2508. When I put my guess in I thought it would be neat to put my birthday of 2708 but I figured it would be a little too remarkable so I opted fot the first official date of the reuinion at 2508. Now that I think of it, I should have gone with the higher number because we have such an amazing and remarkable family.
Yes, Therese, you are right on the number by choosing 90 in honour of Mom in her 90th year.
As soon as Mom celebrated one birthday, her sister Betty teased her about moving on toward the next. For example, when Mom turned 39, Betty teased her about being in her 40th year.
BJ has carried on that tradition in this, Mom's 90th year. Each month, she has sent Mom a package to celebrate the 90th something - Valentine's Day, Easter, spring, summer. Other family members and friends have sent similar reminders.
Of course, our upcoming reunion is being held in anticipation of Mom's 90th birthday on January 19, 2008.
So far 2007 has been a year of celebrations for Mom at every turn. In just over a week, the build up to this special occasion in all of our lives, will be over. We will have arrived. Happy Birthday, Mom!
Here's another riddle to consider in the meantime:
A PHOTO OF THE BUSINESS NAME...
40 YEARS LATER - POSED THE SAME!
LOL, Lucy
Panicking.
No, wait, what do I have to panic about? Wow, that power of suggestion thing is powerful.
Just 8 more sleeps until I leave Smithers. That is if you only count big sleeps, there may be a few naps thrown in along the way.
Hi Everybody,
The answer to your latest riddle, Lucy, has to be the picture taken of Dad & his seven sons posed with the Antonini & Sons truck, and then the picture the brothers took of themselves 40 years later, each in the same position as they were in the original picture, leaving a spot for where Dad would have been.
I'll be right back; I have something in my eyes!!
10 more sleeps. Yee-Haw!
Love,
ME xoxoxox
Wow, Mary-Ellen, that was fast! Before I even had time to think about it, you had the answer to Lucy's latest riddle. What a great picture that photo is. And what a good idea to do it.
The idea for celebrating Mom's 90th year all year long wasn't mine. Marcia first mentioned it at last year's sisters reunion. Then Therese reminded me of it towards the end of the year. I just took the idea and ran with it, as did some of the others. I guess when you are turning 90 you deserve to celebrate it all year. On to another subject......
With all these guesses about how many postings this blog will end up with, has anyone thought to guess who will be the last to post? Maybe it should be Lucy, but what about Ed, he started it. Or maybe the oldest, or youngest, the one who poste the most, the one who posted the least, the one who hasn't yet posted? Mary-Ellen with a quote, Mom with a prayer, Tony with a joke? Will someone make a contest out of it? Anyone care to hazard a guess? Whoa...what am I thinking? What a maroon!Please disregard the above!
Love, BJ
Oh, yes, Mary-Ellen,
My latest riddle refers to two of the pictures that Tony, Lou, Ed, Mike, Marty, Len and Rob chose to feature on the cover of their "One August Night" CD.
I am looking at those photos now as I type my response to you. On the left is the long-ago picture of Dad standing beside the Antonini and Sons Ltd. truck with his seven young sons. On the right is the more recent photo of the seven sons trying to reproduce the original image as closely as possible
In the modern-day picture, each son has taken his place, standing in his original position, assuming his former stance and wearing similar clothing. Robert, who was perched on Dad's right arm, faces inward to the space that Dad occupied years ago. In the background is a stand-in truck; the old telephone pole still rises up behind Lou's right shoulder.
From where did the inspirations for these photos come? Who thought to capture the original picture of Luigi Antonini and his seven sons? With what emotion did these men don special clothes and gather in that very spot, now without their father, to revive and mirror a precious memory?
Thanks guys .... expect to see these photos displayed with other family memorabilia on August 25th.
Okay...it's riddle time again:
MARY, CHRIST AND ANGEL CHILD
FINELY STITCHED IN COLOURS MILD.
LOL, Lucy
Thom ... We just passed the 2460th entry. Another prediction gets blogged down.
The latest update stands:
Lou 2508
Lou 2708
Mike 2775
Therese 2776
Mike 2777
Trish 2860
Rob 2888
Ed 3000
Marty 4500
Lucy
BJ ... no one has run with the number 90 the way that you have in this year of The Mom.
I know that this family of football lovers will join me in congratulating you on catching the ball and scoring several times.
At our upcoming reunion, we will all get to see some of the ways that you and others have helped Mom to mark this special year in her life.
Go, BJ, Go!
Love, Lucy
Today Mom and I went out for lunch at Melrose Place with Barbara, Jo and May.
This is yet another milestone in Mom's recovery. Her stamina seems to be building for our reunion weekend.
Love, Louise
B.J., I can guarantee it won't be me as I will be travelling, but if it's going to be random, you'll have to set a cutoff as the blog will continue to exist after. Since the reunion officially starts with Regina Beach day on Friday, it would make sense the cutoff would be 11:59:59 on Thursday.
Or, as you said, it could be an election. I nominate Melissa, thereby the last post could be the final stats.
thomas - 11:59:59 a.m. thursday sounds good, but there will also have to be a prediction on who will be the 1st person to post after the deadline. lol
it will be interesting to see if there are a few posts during the reunion weekend, just to see if theres any reports about the reunion happinings. it could be like a reunion bugle!!!
we'll see
great news about mom, i can't believe she went out. yahoooo
i guess i sort of boxed therese in on the guesses. sorry litlle sister
love mike
Mike, I can also guarantee I won't be the first poster after the deadline. I'm guessing it will be Lucy!
For Pete's sake Betty-Jo look what you started. Now we have a deadline for the last blog entry, I'm not staying up until 11:59:59 P.M. the Thursday before reunion eve...or will I?
There might be half a dozen entries all come in at 11:59:59 and it will be one of those 100th of a second finishes for the GOLD.
I'm not sure what the picture Lucy's latest riddle refers to is titled but it has been hanging on a wall at either 1140 or mom's suite as long as I remember and I believe it was Dad's mother who crafted it.
Reading the blog was great today and a bit of a roller coaster emotionally.
Lou's new guess..."neat"
Thomas's reference to big sleeps...very funny
Mary-Ellen's answer to Lucy's riddle...touching
BJ, creating yet another contest, and then asking us to disregard it...hilarious
Lucy bringing us to tears again before posing another of her amazing riddles.
Thomas not listening to his mother and setting an actual deadline for her contest. Then...
Mike agreeing...I'll get no sleep that night.
Oops. Sorry everybody. I didn't mean to cause a crisis. I will graciously exempt myself from trying to get this one. Anyone who stays up till 11:59:59 deserves to win.
Edward,
As creator of the Blog, you could legitimately claim the 'last post' but whether your competitive family will let you is another matter. Good luck.
The picture is called The Madonna of the Chair. It is, as Grandma herself put it when she gave me mine, "a labour of love."
Love, BJ
You have correctly answered another of my riddles, Ed. I misled you on the "angel" bit of it though.
When I told Mom that you had identified Grandma's picture of Mary, Jesus and the angel. She said, "That's not an angel. That's John the Baptist." Then I got a bit of a history lesson from her.
When Mary was pregnant with Jesus, she went to visit her cousin Elizabeth who was also expecting a child. Elizabeth and her husband had been told by an angel to name their son, John. John and Jesus were close in age and it is likely that they played together as kids.
I did a bit of my own research on web, too. The Seated Madonna, also known as The Madonna of the Chair, is an oil painting done around 1514 by Raphael.
Grandma Antonini stitched this masterpiece in petite point at least five times.
Mom told me how she watched Grandma working on the stitchery project over several months and through the summer. In the fall, Grandma dropped in with the framed picture. Of course, Mom admired the completed work in its exquisite setting. Then Grandma said, "It's for you". Since then it has had a place of honour in the family home.
That's how Mom remembers it anyway. Betty Jo and Vic have the same picture crafted by Grandma; Mom thinks Aunts Vic and Jo also received one from their mother.
Talk about labours of love and treasured keepsakes!
It's riddle time again:
PARISH PRIEST AND ABLE PREACHER,
CONSTANT FRIEND AND FIRST GREAT TEACHER.
Love, Lucy
I should probably put in a guess....how about 2865. no logic behind it, just what my fingers typed!
my 2 cents (which is about .42 cents after the government takes it's portion) is the ed opened, ed should close.....
i love that picture of the 7 brothers too. and speaking of the cd, jacob was listening to it at mom and dads a few weeks back and asked me what radio station plays it. i answered with those songs aren't on the radio. he couldn't believe it and said "well, they should be!"
and i best be off, just got home from football practice. i can hear the water running somewhere and the kids are all their rooms changing. this can't be good.
sonia
lucy - father Ryan? thats the first priest i remember, he taught me latin.
just clarifying the last entry time, we'll say 11:59:59 eastern, i believe thats 10:59:59 regina time, makes it a little easier for our sleeps the night before the reunion starts, and i know b.j. won't mind midnight her time, its better than 1 in the morning, and anyway she has humbly bowed out of this little fracus.
thomas - i think my son luke is going to golf.
Hi Lucy,
I guess Father Cohan ( spelling ?? ) who I believe was Mom's first teacher of the Catholic faith. I didn't know him at all, but Mom has always spoken very highly of him. He was her friend as well as her parish priest.
Still 10 more sleeps!
LOLOL,
ME xoxoxoox
Father Ryan? Father Cohan? Who are those guys. They say the memory is the first thing to go. I read that somewhere, let me get my glasses so I can find the book I read it in. Deanie knows where it is, wait til she gets closer so I can hear what she's saying. Oh. She says it's right in front of me, she's right!... My nose was in the way.
It's time for bed, blog you tomorrow.
Oh wow! I've been building this kite and I totally forgot to work on it today.
They say the memory is the first thing to go. I read that somewhere...
Good night
Thanks for keeping the blog alive, gang. I'm just watching the news but it gives me something to do during commercials.
Mike, great news on Luke for golf. The more the merrier.
Wow, what's up with these crazy Alberta ferrari drivers? Was that Marty?
Mary-Ellen,
I think it was spelled Father Keoghan--probably Irish. We'll let Mom do the corrections.
Edward, LOL. And you're right--memory is the first thing to go, memory is the first thing to go, memory is the first thing to go.....
BJ
Yes, Mary-Ellen,
You have correctly identified Father Keohan as Mom's first teacher of the Catholic faith.
At first, Mom agreed to take instructions in preparation for her marriage to Dad so that she could understand his beliefs and support him in his faith. Without pressure from Father Keohan, Mom ended up wanting to become a Catholic herself.
Mom describes the first priest that she met as a gentle man, personable, understanding and friendly. He instructed and baptized Mom, celebrated Mom and Dad's wedding Mass, counselled them as a young couple and remained their close friend for the rest of his life.
Father Keohan was eventually transferred to a rural parish in the Regina Archdiocese. Even then, Mom and Dad stayed in touch with him and visited him from time to time.
They remained forever grateful to Father Keohan for giving them a good grounding in the Catholic faith and a firm foundation on which to build their marriage.
And the rest is history... as the saying goes.
Now, I wonder who will get the picture on this riddle?
TWO SEASONS AT THE FAMILY HOME,
PAINTED, SIGNED AND PROUDLY SHOWN.
Love, Lucy
Sonia ... you have left us all wondering about the running water. Is it possible that someone decided to water your lawn? That would be a happy leak. Please don't keep us in suspense for very much longer.
You might be an Antonini if you've ever used your entire supply of towels to mop up a household flood.
LOL, Lucy
Mike ... nice mention of Father Ryan. He is better known to many of us than Father Keohan ever was.
I could probably have featured several priests in my blog riddles. Over the years, Mom and Dad have formed wonderful friendships with their parish priests and with the Bishops of the Regina Archdiocese. Father Keohan was just first in the long line of priests who are an integral part of our family story.
Love, Lucy
Good Morning everyone,
I'm going to leave Lucy's riddle for Thomas, he'll be sorry if he misses it.
Just nine more "big sleeps" to the startup. Maybe a few more for some but for others, the ones who are getting excited, it may be 9 restless nights and 3 exhaustion collapses.
I'm off to work, I'll be coming home to a house of kids, Wednesdays are Nina and Papa's day.
Enjoy your day.
August 15, 2007
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you Bob Barker!
From Mom, Barbara and Louise
We'll be seeing you very soon.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: ( for Bob Barker )
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. ENJOY THE TRIP!
Happy Birthday, Bob.
Love you lots,
ME xoxoxoxoxo
I'm going to leave Lucy's last riddle to someone else because it would just be totally unfair for me to answer it.
I'm going to leave Lucy's last riddle to someone else because it would just be totally unfair for me to answer it.
I'm going to leave Lucy's last riddle to someone else because it would just be totally unfair for me to answer it.
Has anyone mentioned the memory is the first thing to go?
Actually, I have absolutely no clue what she's talking about, but somehow I have a feeling I'm going to be embarrassed when someone else guesses it.
Thom ... Grandma tells me that I should perhaps have used the word "drawn" instead of "painted" in my latest riddle. I may have thrown you off by being unclear. Heaven forbid!
Luce
What we need around here is an editor.....ha!
Lucy
It was the tub that was running. Justin was taking a bath after football...and found something interesting to watch on tv.
there was less than 6 inches left before reaching the top of the tub. so i caught it in good enough time!! whew.
Yes, Lucy, that did throw me off. The other thing that threw me off was the two seasons thing. I remember doing one sketch of 1140 Garnet, but I'm still not sure about the seasons reference.
I also remember painting portraits of Grandma and Grandpa, not sure what happened to those.
Thom's drawing of 1140 was a summer scene. One of Tony's boys (I'm not sure which) did a winter scene of the house. So Thomas, you and I will share the answer to Lucy's latest riddle.
Love, Mom
You guys think you've got it tough with the memory loss...well I used to have split personalities...and so did I....
Marty
Hey marty
I used to suffer from split personalities also...small world.
That's a great relief, Sonia. You were inches away from mopping up time. I was going to congratulate you by saying "Good Eye" but in this case it's "Good Ear".
Love, Lucy
I believe that was Cory who did the painting. It certainly wasn't me - I can't paint - unless it is a fence or a wall, or a ceiling....the occasional window and carpet and arms and legs.....you get the drift.
it's nice to meet you marty.
I think I saw one of those Martys on the news last night racing a Ferrari on a highway outside Calgary.
I don't know if I've ever seen Cory's winter 1140 Garnet scene, but I'd like to.
Hey Thomas
Are you sure it was a ferrari?
Melissa,
Where are you?
Hi Marty and Hi to the other Marty, too. I can't stop laughing - this blog is hilarious today!
Love,
ME xoxoxoxo
You make a great Son and Mother team, Thom and BJ. Together you have named the two pieces of art referred to in my latest riddle.
Thom's scene of summer at 114O is a coloured pencil drawing of our family home. It is on display in Grandma's living room.
Cory's winter scene is a painting in water colours on light canvas. It hangs in the master bedroom.
Both pictures are signed and dated 1990.
Now that our family home belongs to someone else, these gifts have become even more precious than they were when two grandsons first presented them to their grandparents 17 years ago.
I have to agree with Lou that this is an amazing and remarkable family. You guys are great! No matter how vague or inaccurate my riddles may be, you solve them with enthusiasm and grace. I am encouraged to keep trying to do better.
How's this one?
WORDS OF WISDOM FROM ANOTHER....
"MUSIC CALLS YOU, LITTLE BROTHER!"
Love, Lucy
I'm glad to say I know both Martys, the one who plays the piano is crazy,the one who draws and paints, I'd say he's weird but I have that moniker, so I'll just say he's...different...yeah that's it, different.
Sorry, my mistake, Lambourgini
Hey Mary Ellen
Long time no see. I can't wait to see you at the reunion.
Hey Thomas
That may not have been me. I've never tried Lambourgini. Is it better than Ravioli?
Hey Lucy
I think I've got this one...
A long time ago when I was working for the family business, I was talking to Mike one night and I was telling him how much I hated working on my knees. I told him my dream was to make a living playing music for people.
He slapped me in the face and said...DO IT NOW! I said: What about my job? He said: Quit! Now! Well, to make a long story short, I did quit that night and I have never looked back.
Thanks Mike, I owe ya. Oh and Thanks Tony, for understanding. I think he was glad to be rid of me anyway. I wasn't a very good floor guy.
Do I get another point Luce?
Love,
Marty
Hi Marty,
And hey, nice to meet you too, Marty. What a wild duo you two make. LOL!
Love, BJ
Actually, there's a third Marty, you can see him wandering around different TV and Movie screens pretending he's somebody else...I wonder if the other two know about him.
I really needed the laughs I got reading the blog today because I'm about to get back to the kite.
I know people have heard the myths about Tony's temper but I don't think you've seen me mad. If this kite doesn't fly, run. Tony knocking horseshoe poles out of the ground will seem like eating strawberries with Mary Poppins...When I lose it I lose it...it's how I lost my hair.
Hey Eddie
Different!?... How am I different?...You know how you are different...Shut up I wasn't talking to you...you takin' to me?...You talkin' to me?...
I'm looking so forward to flying that kite. I hope we either lose it and find it at pelican point, or, we have gale force winds..ha ha ha ha ha .
Hey BJ
Are you losing your memory? You know me, I'm your brother... I'M her brother...shut up I wasn't takin' to you...you talkin' to me?...
Love, Marty
Love, Marty
...what time is it?...
Four thirty
Its not late, naw, naw,
Just early, early, early
President, he sweat through his talcum
News paper man, he watch like a falcon
Ah, look...daddy-o...sorry, mr. president...where ya been?
Use a little english to doctor the spin
What time is it?
Four thirty
Its not late, naw, naw,
Just early, early, early
Its my bread and butter
Aint got no other
Its on the tv
The spins on me...
Ayatollah, hes hopping mad
Jibber about some damn jihad
Send me back to old baghdad
Spin doctor its oh so sad
What time is it?
Four thirty
Its not late, naw, naw,
Just early, early, early
Its my bread and butter
Aint got no other
Its on the tv
The spins on me...
Hey Marty, yeah, you to Marty.
We might need gale force winds to get this baby airborn. If I have any more trouble building it I might just lose it on the way out to the beach. I need you to paint a picture on it so it at least looks half decent. Hey! You can paint a picture of a kite flying on it, that way we can stick it in a tree and it will at least look like we're flying a kite.
Yes, Marty, you do get a point for correctly answering my latest riddle about you. Good eye!
Thanks for telling us the story of the day you got up off your knees, stopped laying floors and decided to make music your life.
How could you have known that you would go from one strength to another - from music, to art, to acting? We're glad that Mike shocked you into realizing that you could quit a good job to follow your dreams.
You'd have done that anyway, Marty, but Mike gave you the nudge that got you going sooner rather than later.
You not only have a great brother in Mike, you have a true friend as well. Good call, Mike, but did you have to slap Marty across the face?
I hope this next riddle is accurate:
THIS COUPLE'S PORTRAIT'S ON DISPLAY
SKETCHED TO MARK THEIR SPECIAL DAY.
LOLOL, Lucy
Okay, we have gone over Lou's 2508 mark but it may yet be the closest prediction. The next estimate jumps ahead by 200 and time is running out.
Here's the update:
Lou 2708
Mike 2775
Therese 2776
Mike 2777
Trish 2860
Sonia 2865
Rob 2888
Ed 3000
Marty #1 2500
Go, Bloggers, Go!
Lucy
Good day everyone,
I was able to get a full 6 hours sleep last night, I must say though, the hours and minutes are decreasing exponentially as the buildup to the reunion increases. My figures tell me I'll get 47 minutes sleep Thursday night of next week.
Happy Birthday to Justin today, I hear Sonia's going to let him use the lawn mower today.
I believe the answer to Lucy's riddle is the picture Holly did of Dad with a birthday cake which is also their anniversary. She used two pictures, sketching mom in at dad's side.
We are really putting preasure on Lucy to come up with these terrific riddles and she is matching our abilities to solve them with her ability to create them.
There's a challenge for sure, she has only one week left to continue to stir our memories.
I figured out I have a photographic memory, I remember what I'm looking at as soon as I see the photograph.
Good news and bad news on the kite, the good news is the sticks are fastened together and look good. The bad news is I got so excited I dropped my roll of string down the stairs and it's going to take me a while to untangle it.
Update later
I'm off to work hoping for another blog burst while I'm away.
Smile for yourself today
Thanks for the birthday wish for Justin Ed! He is 15 today - wow. And he is taller than me too...growing like a weed. Like the weeds in my front yard...
Instead of letting him use the lawn mower today (because I let him use it on the weekend) I think I might let him use his common sense. Wait a second - what I am saying?? Common sense??? He is a teenager - seems I have lost my common sense.
Maybe I will let him drive around today instead - so all Regina dwellers, beware the crazy driver in the green van. And it won't be me driving!!!
In the past years, I have always brought cupcakes or freezies to his football practice and handed them out for his birthday - he always has practice on his birthday.... So last night I was at practice and standing beside him, him with all his equipment on, taller than me, looking so much older than he really is - and I asked him if he would like me to bring something to practice for his birthday. He looked at me with this funny little smirk and said "ah mom, that would be weird" and I said but it's your birthday, and he said "that would be embarassing" hmmmm. i have something in my eye.
so, big question is. should i just embarrass him and do it anyways? not cupcakes though - can't bake those here. but maybe buy a bunch of big freezies?
what should i do??
sonia
Yes, Ed,
My latest riddle refers to Holly's June 17, 1994 anniversary gift to Mom and Dad.
The picture shows Dad seated in front of a heart-shaped rice-krispie cake that is topped with Hersey's candy kisses and hugs. Dad's shirt is open at the neck and his tie is hanging crookedly across one of his suspenders. Holly used an informal snapshot to sketch Dad in this relaxed pose.
Holly then used a more formal photograph to fit Mom into the sketch at Dad's left shoulder. The finished picture is dated, signed and beautifully framed in grey and silver tones.
Here in Mom's Regina suite, Holly's anniversary sketch hangs on one side of Grandma Antonini's Madonna of the Chair. Therese's cross-stitched Angel of the Moon is on the other side.
This living room wall is just one of three that are filled with with family artistry and love. I won't attempt to describe all that I see and enjoy as my eyes sweep around this room today.
I'll simply give you another riddle to solve:
A CHILDHOOD GAME WITH EMPTY TIN
PROTECTED FROM THOSE RUNNING IN.
LOLOL, Lucy
Uh, oh Sonia .... now you have me crying, too. Don't ask your Aunt Louise for advice on this one. To this day, I follow my heart in these matters and I usually end up embarrassing my kids.
Give Justin a Happy Birthday hug from Grandma and a warm wish from me but please, please do so with discretion.
Love, Louise
Sonia, absolutely, definitely embarrass him, the opportunities to do it are swiftly dwindling. He'll thank you for it someday (just not today). Bring pizza... teenagers can't get enough pizza.
Sonia,
Embarrass him! That's your job, you're a mother!
love, BJ
Wow, while I was advising Sonia, my son was giving her the same advice. I must have done something right. BJ
Correct, Mom, you embarrassed me. I'm just trying to get vicarious revenge through Justin. Misery loves company.
B.J. is right though, it's your job.
I should have gone to my big sister and her son for advice on this matter long ago. I've never stopped embarrassing my kids but now I will no longer feel guilty about doing so.
BJ ... I didn't know that business about embarrassing kids being part of a mother's role. There I was, doing a good job all along! Are you listening, Paul and Alan?
Thom ... pizza is a great idea for lessening the sting. Cupcakes on the football field would be over the top.
Luce
You see, 30 years later I'm thanking her for it because I know it was just because she loves me to pieces.
Th o ma s,
You're sure right about that.
Love, Mom
Sonia, this is for you.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: ( Taken fron The August Barker Bugle - My Martin says "Sorry about the copyright infringement, Auntie BJ")
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
-James Dent
8 more big sleeps! Ed, your counting is your own mathematical equation!
LOL,
ME xoxoxoxoxo
OK Now I'm starting to count Take 3 I should be ready to post Numbers by the end of the day - I think this Blog might make it to take 4 before the Reunion
Great timing on your latest quote of the day, Mary-Ellen!
Are you sure that the author of "A perfect summer day...." isn't Sonia Banin? Could be, eh, if James Dent hadn't penned it first?
At any rate, his words are a perfect fit.
I just have to say it again Mary-Ellen:
GUN MOOD ORE DAY!
Love, Lucy
Welcome, Melissa!
Happy counting on the blog!
We'll let you approach Ed about a...TAKE FOUR posting on Ed's Edition. He has been dealing with an unruly kite lately and he may not be in the mood for such a distraction.
Ed's response may depend on whether he has been able to untangle his kite string. It got away on him this morning just like his reunion blog did a few months ago.
Louise
Well, it is settled then.
Embarrass him it is!!!
Thanks for the words of wisdom from both generations...
And to set the matter straight - I had nothing to do with the quote. I love the quote, but can't take credit.
But did I forget everyone my exciting news?? At the end of June I played golf with some of the people from racquetball. Ok, I am exagerating abit, I TRIED to play golf. Anyways, they had some prizes and stuff. No, I didn't win anything, everyone got a prize. But I got the best fitting prize.
It is a little plaque to stick in my lawn and it says "I fought the lawn and the lawn won".
I definately won't bring cupcakes...good plan. I will bring maybe some freezies, although that pizza suggestion is a sure winner. I would be the mom of the year!! hmmmmm, i will let you know how it goes.
ALRIGHT THE END OF TAKE 2 IS COUNTED AND LOGGED AT THE END OF TAKE 2 THE 100+ CLUB PLACES ARE:
Louise 327 Entries
Thom 223
BJ 213
Ed 181
Marty 162
Mike 125
Happy Blogging everyone Now I'm starting Take 3, See you in a Week!!!
some more numbers for you! July posted 868 entries, that's down from June which was 954 entries.
What's happening you are slipping are you???
445 entries then I'm totally caught up!
Ok, I need Lou's help here. I was busy at work today, singing as I quite often do...to drown out the noise of the compressor and saws...when my boss heard me. This is the conversation that followed.
Pat: That's "I remember you" isn't it?
Me: I guess so
Pat: Do you know who sang it?
Me: Sorry, not a clue.
Pat: What? You can't sing a song if you don't know who performed it.
Me: I just did.
Pat: Well, that song is Lou Christie's.
Me: Good for Lou.
Pat: Know what else he sang?
Me: I've never heard of him.
Pat: He went on to form a group called the Lou Christie Minstrels.
Me: Really? You know I'm going to have to check this fact with my brother Lou. It's not that I don't believe you it's just that you're the brother of the girl who asked Shy Violet how high she could fly. Lou will know.
I sure appreciate coming home to some blog activity.
It's time for me to go fight the kite,
I think it won't gain lofty flight,
Although I try with all my might,
Working late into the night,
I may be losing my good sight,
Trying to get it just so right,
Making sure it's weight is light,
I myself have caused this plight,
Oh dear I think I fear this kite.
Well, looks like Ed got his wish for a blogburst, it's been quite an active, and entertaining day.
Some interesting stats there Melissa. My mom always says one of her goals is for her children to surpass her and so, it looks like I have.
I officially concede the most prolific blogger title to Lucy, however. With only seven big sleeps to go before I leave Smithers, I'm afraid I would have to quit my job to catch up. Days like today make me want to. Try dealing with government ministries in August. MLAs are on vacation. Media Relations hacks have no clue what is going on. People in government who do know what is going on aren't allowed to talk to the media.
It's a fast and furious game of pass-the-buck!
Lucy,
No one seems to be solving your latest riddle, so I'm going to give it a try. Is it the game of 'kick the can' that we used to play at the beach. If it is, I'll leave the explanation of it to you--I am sure you 'can' do it much better than I 'can'.Maybe the younger ones never played it.
Love, BJ
i made the 100 blog entry club, its like a badge of honor.
poor justin, try to have a happy birthday buddy.
ed , are you done the kite yet? need any help?
and i'd just like to say hello to marty, marty and marty.
mike
That may be one of the funniest catch up's I've experienced on the blog!! I was on the blog late Tuesday but not since then. I got laughing so hard once that I had to go to the washroom - quickly!
Ed, it is quite fitting that you asked me about Lou Christie but I think you are pulling my leg.
Lou Christie was born Luigi Alfredo Giovanni Sacco. He changed his last name from Sacco to Christie quite accidentally because his first hit was credited to Lou Christie by mistake. He wanted to go by the single moniker 'Lugee' but I guess his producer figured it wasn't a good idea.
Anyway, Christie ended up with more than a dozen songs on the charts but I'm afraid "I Remember You" wasn't one of them.
"I Remember You" was written back in 1941 by Victor Schertzinger and Johnny Mercer and has been recorded by close to 50 different artists. The version you likely remember hearing was performed by Frank Ifield who took it to No. 1 back in 1962.
Now comes the funny part. Lou Christie had nothing to do with either the Christy Minstrels or the New Christy Minstrels. The Christy Minstrels were formed by Edwin Christy and were a Blackface minstrel group that performed in New York City back in the middle of the 19th century (1847-1854). The New Christy Minstrels were named after the original group, were formed by Randy Sparks and are a folk group that started in 1961 and are still performing today. Today's version still includes Randy Sparks but is missing some key members from the early years -- Kenny Rogers and three other original members of The First Edition!
Now be honest -- were you pulling my leg or was Pat out to lunch when you had this conversation?
You can always count on Lou and Thomas to come through with terrific answers to queries.
Pat does like to impress with his knowledge in all fields. He got Lou Christie wrong and to his credit he wasn't sure once I mentioned I was "running it by Lou". I kinda egged him into the Lou Christie Minstrels by playing dumb, I thought you'd get a kick out of it.
Sometimes I pretend
Two faces have I
Back to the %@##*@ kite
Good eye on my latest riddle, Betty Jo! It was rapidly disappearing off the page in today's flurry of blog entries.
Kick the Can is one of the childhood games we played for summer fun at the beach. It is a variation on Hide and Go Seek.
An empty tin can (of the Campbell Soup variety) was placed in full view on the grass in front of our cabin. The protector of the can was IT. He or she did a countdown while the rest of the players scrambled to find hiding spots in the surrounding area. At the end of the countdown, IT shouted: "Ready or not, you must be caught, hiding around the base or not!"
Then the game was on!
The object was for a player to venture out of a hiding space and kick the can before being found outright or being tagged on the way to the can by the person who was "IT".
If the can was kicked, everyone in the game was home free and the kicker took over the job of protecting the can during the next round of play.
As summer wore on, it got harder and harder to find an unknown hiding spot. Successfully kicking the can was a major victory. The trick was to move quickly before "IT" even had a chance to start looking for you.
It seems that we have been an active, creative bunch of people from the word "Go".
Here's a bit of history to consider:
A FEW OF US REMEMBER WHEN
PROVINCES WENT FROM NINE TO TEN.
LOLOL, Lucy
Ah, the benefit of being on Pacific Time. I probably have all the time in the world to answer this riddle.
So, first I will comment on kick the can. I remember this game, which, unfortunately, is a tribute to my oldness in overlapping the generations.
Riddle answer to follow.
Lou ... how do you do that? It's easier to contact you with a question about music than to figure out what key word to use in a GOOGLE search. Fascinating stuff!
Melissa ... good work on the stats. We HAVE slowed down a bit but you were bound to catch up with us eventually. After all, you can read two or three days' comments while current entries increase just one day at a time. What date are you on now?
Mike ... welcome to the 100 blog entry club. I wonder which of the three faces of Marty is smiling at his/their 100+ entries.
Thom ... ICUR2Y's 2 try 2 catch up. No race intended!
Good night, all!
Love, Lucy
A FEW OF US REMEMBER WHEN
PROVINCES WENT FROM NINE TO TEN.
I love these riddles because of the way they are worded.
First one must dissect the riddle to figure out what the answer is we're looking for.
In this case, there are three possible answers, the date, the number of the few who would remember and who the few are. Of course the three answers play into each other.
The date is simple, 1949, Newfoundland, now Newfoundland and Labrador (thankfully not Newfrador to borrow from a previous riddle answer), became the last province to join confederation. Did you know part of the deal was a ferry link to the rest of the country?
The number of the few is also simple if one is a proud possessor of the Bob Barker family tree. There are seven (bear with me) born before the historic date of March 31, 1949 Newfies officially became the butt of all Canadian jokes, B.J. (1939), Vic (1941) Lucy (1942), Luigi (1943), ME (1944), Tone (1946) and Lui (1948).
Of course, the real trick about this riddle is, who are the ones who might actually remember it.
We can immediately rule out Luigi who died the day after he was born. I'm also going to rule out Lui, who was precisely six months and four days old when Canadian Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and British Colony of Newfoundland Lieutenant Governor Gordon Winter signed on the dotted line. In fact, the deal was made Dec. 11, 1948 and came into effect in March, 1949.
I'm also going to question Mary Ellen and T-Bone's recall capacity on this event who were four-and-a-half and 2-and-a-half years old respectively. I have plenty of pre-six-year-old vague memories but none are political. My very first political memory is the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) crisis of October 1970. I was six years, four months old. My second is the resignation of Richard Nixon on Aug. 8, 1974, two months, 1 day after my 11th birthday.
However, a new province was undoubtedly an extremely memorable event, especially in the pre-TV, pre-Internet, pre-information overload world of 1949. So, I am going to with the answer that there are three Generation 2 Antoninis that remember this story: B.J., Vic and Lucy.
Wow, that was fun.
Sorry, lost a bit of detail in my excitement at the end there.
B.J (15 days shy of 10-years-old), Vic (17 days shy of 8-years-old) and Lucy (6-years and exactly 9-months old).
Btw, a little interesting stat: it took me 46 minutes to research, write and edit that fine piece of blog journalism while watching Shark at the same time.
Picture me blowing smoke off the end of an imaginary hand-gun, twirling it around my finger and re-holstering.
And with that I am off to my seventh last big sleep before hitting the road for the Queen City of the Prairies.
That's what I said, if you want to know something send it out to Lou or Thomas. Of course, if you want to know about building a kite, ask T-Bone. Except he's probably busy, manicuring the grass or painting the house or putting a new motor in a car or ripping a lawn out or building a shower or tiling a kitchen floor or putting a new roof on or catching somebody trying to steal a million bucks...just taking care of business. I hope he makes it to the reunion.
You know...there's this kite I've been working on and I just had a thought, what if it is dead calm that day.......
I'm bringing fans.
Good morning, Canada.
Lui,
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thomas, Yes, I do remember when NF became part of Canada. And 30 years from now a younger generation will be asking you if you remember Nunavut becoming our third territory.
Lucy,
What's the next riddle?
Love, BJ
Ed,
You have lots of fans. Just ask them to blow hard while they are watching you.
BJ
Great action on the blog yesterday and lots of fun. We are now within a week of the real action, by this time next week people will have arrived and visiting will have commenced, some will be packing up for a day at the beach, a few will be on the golf course for an early morning round, I'll probably be frantically building a kite after accidentally sitting on the one I'm working on now.
Hey! good morning Betty Jo and Canada, I like that, Good Morning Canada, I'm going to borrow that from you BJ.
BTW...HAPPY BIRTHDAY LENNY!!!!!
He'll be hosting a great day next Friday.
I'm off to work again, which isn't such a bad thing, I'm thinking about picking up some more supplies for another kite...just in case.
Smile Canada
People are going to be watching me try to fly my kite? But...But...I'll freeze, I'll get stage fright, the only reason I'm not singing and performing profesionally at this time is because of my stage fright. I remember my first time on stage, all I had to remember was "10 lords a leaping", I even had nine other little lords to help me, but I went into a daze after someone blurted out something about some kinda bird in some kinda tree.
Later
Hey Len!
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
We turn not older with years, but newer every day!
- Emily Dickinson
Happy Birthday, Len, for the new you on your new day!
Loving the blog & the blogsters,
ME xoxoxoxoxoxo
Wow, that WAS fun, Thom!
You can put your twirling gun back into your holster now; you really hit the mark this time. I believe that I enjoyed reading your answer to my latest riddle as much as you enjoyed writing it.
You are correct about the 1949 addition of a new Canadian province being a memorable event. Our teachers used the moment to tell us more about this great country of ours. We celebrated Newfoundland's arrival with excitement akin to welcoming a new kid into the family.
There's nothing more for me to add to your awesome riddle response. All I can say, clearly and simply, is: DAMN YOU'RE GOOD!
.... and quickly enter another riddle, ... (a too-late diversion tactic, BJ - nice try, though!)
PATRON SAINT OF FOLKS ON WAYS;
(AT LEAST HE WAS...IN BYGONE DAYS).
Love, Luce
Happy 48th Birthday, Len!
With love from Mom and Louise.
We remembered you at breakfast this morning. Without a memory aid, Mom recalled your 1959 birth date along with those of your closest siblings born in 1954,56,58 and 60.
With a sigh, she commented: "All my children are growing old".
I wish I had read Mary-Ellen's quote of the day before joining Mom at the breakfast table. I'll wait until lunch now to give her Emily Dickinson's perspective on aging.
So...Happy NEW day, happy NEW year, Len!
Ed... don't panic but ...
What if it rains? Should I bring an umbrella?
You might still have time to purchase water-resistant kite material. Butcher paper might work!
Just trying to help....Lucy
Hi Louise,
St. Christopher ( patron saint of travelers ) seems to fit your latest riddle. I remember Dad having a St. Christopher medal in one of the station wagons. Actually, I think it was a statue that had a magnet on the bottom so it would stick to the dash. Occassionally he would topple over - a sign for Dad to slow down ( or wake up )!
Hi to everyone in Blogland. Weren't BJ's words in her Blexicon absolutely brilliant descriptions of what's happening on our blog? There is a whole page of them in the August Bugle, and I was trying to pick a favorite, but there are so many favorites that you just have to love them all!
Loving this Blogathon,
ME xoxoxo
Hmmm, I never got my August Bugle. I think maybe my subscription ran out. I didn't get July either. Or June, May, April, March. Guess I better call the office.
I've just finished listening to all my Elvis recordings. How are the rest of you doing?
BJ
b.j - i watched larry king the other night from graceland, they showed all the rooms in the house except his private office, it was very interesting. best book about elvis, elvis what happened, written by the his body guards. he would of been 72 this year. did elvis die on lens birthday?
Mike,
No. Elvis died on August 16. I listened to his music yesterday. I usually listen to music that is appropriate to the day. For example, on Nov 11, I listen to war music, on Feb 9, I listen to Mozart's Requiem (in honor of Dad) etc. So yesterday I listened to Elvis. I just wondered if anyone else on the blog had done so.
Love, BJ
Hey Mom
Just out of curiousity, who are the siblings born in 1954, 56, 58 and 60?
Marty
Let me be the first to say: GO RIDERS.
Anyone going to the game tomorrow?
Marty, Marty, Marty....
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. Of course, the dates in my entry should have read 54,56,57 and 60.
You have to know that Mom did not make this error .... Lucy did. I am not even going to tell her about my mistake. She will not be amused. She and I actually discussed your 50th birthday in the remembering process.
Mom didn't have to consult the family tree but I should have double-checked my favorite reference before I went to the blog to wish Len a happy birthday.
So little brother, figure out some way that I can make amends to you for lopping a year off your life. Please don't tell Mom, though.
Love, Lucy
Right on, Mary-Ellen!
Christopher is the saint that I referred to in my latest riddle.
I'm sure that many of us remember Dad's statue of Saint Christopher carrying the Christ child on his shoulders. He wasn't always perched on the dashboard but he was in the car with us nevertheless.
In 1969 St. Christopher was removed from the universal calendar of saints because there was not enough historical evidence that he even existed. However, parish devotions to St. Christopher were not discouraged. The feast day of this "down-graded" saint is still celebrated on July 25th.
To this day Christopher remains the patron saint of travelers. Legend has it that he once agreed to carry a small child across a flowing stream. The child grew so heavy that Christopher struggled to reach the other shore. Once there Christopher learned that the Child was Christ, himself laden with the weight of the world's sins.
Christopher means "light-bearer" - showing the way to wandering people. He may well be watching over you in the coming days.
Now, let's see where we go from here:
SIXTEEN SQUARES OF SYMBOLS SHOW
RELATED PEOPLE, ROW ON ROW.
Love, Lucy
Lucy,
This has to be the wall hanging you made for Mom and Dad. One for each parent and each child. There was an appropriate symbol for each, eg. a piano keyboard for Marty and so on. I will leave it to you to give each symbol and its significance. I remember quite a few of them.
Lpve. BJ
That is, one SQUARE for each.
I always thought Auntie Therese made that wall-hanging! Can't wait to hear about each other the squares!
Thomas, I think it's quite impressive that you made the 100 Club when you came to the blog relatively late in the game.
Thank you Holly, "impressive" is a very kind interpretation of the stats. Some might prefer verbose, while others would simply say: "GET A LIFE!"
Nevertheless, it is true that the only blogger more prolific than me had a two-month head start and that person also happens to be retired.
Of course, those two months were back in the day when the blog was still a reasonable exchange of reunion information and not the uncontrollable mayhem of its current incarnation.
On the other hand, one must consider that this is basically what I do for a living so, you'd really have to factor in the blog handicap (you can add that to your blexicon, BJ). Being a professional, that would give me an index of zero.
Despite the fact there are plenty of people in this family who are extremely low-handicappers doing something day-in and day-out is certainly an advantage.
Just been reading the blexicon. This is seriously worthy of wider publication. BJ, with your permission, I will call Peter Simpson (Ottawa Citizen entertainment editor) and pitch it to him.
ROTFKMWL - kudos to the first person who deciphers this.
With a few edits to make it less specific to the family blog, of course.
Okay just finished reading the blexicon and at the risk of being a blogrunner, bloghog, blogmeister and/or blogaholic (hmmm, don't remember seeing that one) all I can say is: BRILLIANT!
Oh yeah, and: THAT'S MY MOM!
Hey Luce
No need to apologize. You guys are still mixed up. I was born in 1967.
Hey BJ
Good job on the bugle.
Marty
Ah, Len, master of the bloglet.
Does this qualify? Oops, I guess not anymore.
Mar-TAY, or is it Marty? So hard to tell, which one was born in 1967 and which one in 1957? Looking forward to jamming. Are we going to get to jam? Should I bring my mando?
BTW, Len, what are the sleeping arrangements for the beach on Friday? Should I count on pitching my tent?
Dang, I'm blogrunning again. Maybe I will catch up to Luce. Naw, her next blogrun is undoubtedly not far off.
Ok, I loved the blexicon, blogvana is great, I reached it right after Mary-Ellen's first entry.
Other examples of bloglets, way back at entry 83...8...7...6 and so on.
Although I have joined Thomas, Tricia and Melissa as a blogmeister by having my own site, my hat's off to Thomas...a superblogmeister with his own site and over 200 postings on another site.
I just had a really wierd unbidden memory.
Bear with me. I'm not a cold pizza kind of person, but I let my pizza get cold and because I was so busy blo... er, I mean watching a movie, I grabbed a piece. For some reason that reminded me of Don Wohlberg who, allegedly, used to (and maybe still does) like cold pizza.
That led me to a quantum memory leap to a time when I was a teenager and helping with the re-roofing of Don and Vic and Michelle and Mike's house in Richmond, Ontario. Now, I'll be the first to admit that me and construction is like George Bush and intelligence, so I don't know what Don was thinking except that he was probably trying to help his ne'er-do-well nephew go straight. I missed my footing and went through the ceiling into the living room (I'm having flashes of a woodstove, or maybe it was a TV).
In any event, I can remember Don looking at it and saying something like: "That's okay, I have to replace that ceiling anyway."
Funny how memory works.
So I turned 48 today, i still feel 19, i dropped Amy off at Tahnee's her friend who turned 19 today, we have the same birthday, now we are both allowed to drink. thank you everyone who wished me a happy birthday.
If Steven really shows up I guess he'll have to stay at our place with his two brothers, (I can hardly wait).
Whose coming to the cottage?
How many hot dogs do I need for friday night??? or should I warn Butlers they may need a bigger boat and more fish.
I fixed the roof the other day so we don't have to worry about rain inside, don't forget this cottage has been in our family for over 60 years, don't expect too much. But there's nothing like staying at the beach. I don't know how may of you remember, but one of my favorite memories was when you had to go to Regina for the day and dad had to wake you up..... he would grab you by your toe so he wouldn't wake everyone else up. He was awesome.
We are less than a week away. Signing off from blogland with Kelly the Blurker reading over my shoulder.
Blognight, blog bless you
Len
I'm close, I'm thinking of pulling an all nighter to prepare the kite for launch tomorrow. With any luck I'll have some wind and it won't be raining tomorrow.
Ed, I actually have two other blog sites: bloggingatthebigdog.blog.com, which is my official The Interior News blog and barkingatthebigblog.blogspot.com, which was my workaround solution to the problem of not being able to post photos, music and other sundry stuff to this blog.
The funny thing is, I resisted, for years, going blog, despite the encouragement of many people. I wanted to be in print. Now that I'm constantly in print, I'm turning into Mr. Blog.
Hey Len, I'll have a couple dogs Friday night, I'll probably need them after running around with the kite all day.
Thom, I didn't know about your other site, a superduperblogmeister, I take my wig off to you as well.
I'm getting blogeyed, one BJ missed, it's when you've been blogging so long your eyes start drying up and your bottle of blogdrops is empty. Ok...Blogdrops: the drops you use to keep your eyes from drying out while blogsessing.
Tomorrow...oops...later today
The Bugle must have only published the abridged version of the blexicon. Blogeyed, I love it.
Don't worry, Ed, you don't need to take off you blogrug for me.
Hey Len
Happy belated.
I will be coming on Friday. I hope I can make in time for little arm.
Hey Thomas
I was hoping I could listen to you Friday night but I will have my piano with me so I would love to jam with ya.
See ya soon.
Marty
Hey Thomas
Maybe I'll bring my drums.
Marty
Hey Thomas
Maybe I'll bring my bass guitar.
Marty
Hey Thomas
Maybe I'll bring my hamonica.
Marty
Hey Thomas
Maybe I'll bring my ukulele...you don't have a ukulele...i wasn't takin' to you...you talkin' to me?..
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Marty, bring the whole dad-gum band. Golly, I wish this wasn't such a family-friendly blog, it's really impeding my use of expletives.
Maybe I'll bring my bass guitar, well, huh, whuddaya think about that, eh? You talkin' to me? Maybe I'll bring my morroccas, huh, whuddaya think about that, eh? You talkin' to me?
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