Christmas season

I was just sort of sitting at my computer daydreaming when I realized it was Dec 1. Time for a new post.
Deanie and I, Heather, Holly and Ellie drove over to Calgary for the Award Ceremony for Tricia on  Nov.22. It was fantastic. Afterwards we went over to Lou and Marie's for a small gathering of family and friends. Tricia was amazing that night, after what must have been an exhausting day she seemed to have enough energy for a very good visit. Much thanks to Lou and Marie for opening their home for the evening. We had very good weather up and back and were very happy we had made the trip.
Now we are busy getting ready for the Christmas season. Ho Ho Ho.

Have a great day

Loved

November 2017

I find it hard to sit down at the computer when I have nothing to say, but I must get a post in before the month gets too deep. Tony's birthday is coming up soon and I want to see Louise's greeting in a fresh thread. I went out Halloween night dressed up as Tony and didn't see one vampire, as a matter of fact even the boogey man stayed in hiding. Yeah, though I walked through the valley of death I feared no evil...Tony was with me.

Have a great day

Loved

October 2017

I'm standing on the edge of a tub in socking feet and....I know... you're wondering. It's because socks won't mark the tub. So, there I am, when...still wondering? I'm standing on the edge to reach the ceiling joints, I am helping a friend install a new tub in a bathroom reno and am taping drywall. Anyway, I wish I could blame my friend for knocking me but it's my own clumsiness that sends me skiing into the tub. It's amazing how fast gravity brings you down. I'm moving at great speed when the end of the tub causes my feet to halt abruptly. To bad the rest of me didn't stop as well, my knees buckled and the mass of my upper body threw my head forward. It did loosen up my back some, I haven't been able to put my head between my knees since that turbulent flight from Vancouver to Victoria back in '81, that's a different story though. Now I can feel my feet getting wet, I must have broke the tap. No, that's not it, I've gone and gashed my forehead on the faucet, it's blood I'm feeling. Darn it! It's the month of vampires too. I don't like them, they'll smell the blood. I'm wishing I was like my older brother, Tony was so tough, vampires would lift the lid of their coffins to make sure he wasn't around before they came out. Well, I'm off to emergency, I kind of miss the staff there anyway.

Have a great day

Loved

Walk a lake

Sept 1, 2017

We are heading to the cabin at Wakaw Lake for the annual Matlock reunion. It's eight of us, the hosts, Shirley and Gary, sister Joan and Dennis from Lumsden, brother Terry and Cathy from Lumsden and Deanie and myself. This is the 27 th year. We usually have it on the August long, but the Ebert's family had a full reunion this year. 167 people at that one. They outnumbered us for the date. We are looking forward to a great weekend.

Have a great one yourselves

Loved

August 9 th Sorry

There are times when my creative juices totally dry up. Turns out that's quite a bit more often than not. Yeah! Writer's block, that's what it is. Sure, more like me being a pro at crastinating. Anyways here is an August thread to work on. Oh, I'm working this week, maybe if I'm careless enough I can come up with a new story, or, an old story retold.

Have a great day

Loved

HAPPY CANADA DAY!!!

Oh my gosh ! I see I completely missed June. I'm glad and thankful that you didn't. I suppose I should worry about it, I make the absent minded professor look like a genius, of course, I guess that's what he was. I never worry about losing my memory, it wasn't until grade six I remembered that 2 + 2 = 4, it was embarrassing having classmates watch me count it on my fingers. I still forget my keys when I leave the house, you're probably thinking "I do too ", but not every single time, sometimes I forget why I left the house. July 1, Canada Day, 150 years. It's a big deal every where you go, well I guess not every where. I figure at least one place in Scotland it is. Very exciting news that Tricia and Marie are going to be spending a couple of hours in Regina this month. It is always so great to see them. Canada Day won't be the most exciting day of this month and I know my 7 sisters would agree.  I always loved telling people I have 7 great sisters, then hearing " do you have any brothers ?".

Have a great day

Loved

May 1 2017

I don't usually get upset with people doing stupid things, I've done a load of them myself, but a bunch of numptys were moving material while a table saw was running. Really bad idea. So, when the first hammer flew past my head I kind of passsionately muttered JESUS CHRIST!!! I felt bad right away, dad would have been disappointed had he heard, and mom, mom would have had a bucket of soap and a scrub pad threatening to wash my mouth out to scare me. Then... all of a sudden... HE was standing there, yeah, it was HIM. I didn't recognise HIM immediately, the blue jeans and t-shirt confused me and definately the steel toed boots threw me off. It wasn't even the wounds in HIS wrists, really, after 50 years in the construction industry, I've been pretty close to duplicating those myself. It was the calm and peace eminating from HIS being, oh yeah, and the halo, the halo kind of gave it away. I didn't know what to say... so I asked, "How's your DAD?" HE said HE'S been golfing ever since Mr. Palmer arrived. I thought God would just control the flight of the ball but Jesus says HE lets it fly where ever. If HE lands in the bushes HE just moves the bushes, HE tried burning the bush the first time but Moses showed up hoping to renegotiate the ten commandments. Then I asked if HE was there to take me, no, HE just wondered why I called. So I asked HIM, "How am I doing, why are we here, what is life all about?" HE smiled and said "That's easy, you're doing....That's when I woke up and saw the 2 x 4 laying beside my head, there was an eyebrow embedded in the end of it, looked familiar, even through the reddish haze of the blood streaming across my eyeball I'm pretty sure it was my DNA. The paramedics arrived, "Hey Jimmy, it's Tony's brother Ed again. Ed how are you feeling?" I looked up through my one good eye, " I'm good......I'm always good".
Have a great day
Loved

April 2017

There I was, moving across the floor, installing the hardwood planks. I had developed a good rhythm, spinning my mallet to the metal side to place the plank, setting my nailer in place, spinning my mallet to the rubber side to drive the nail. I was going at a good rate until the sweat was pouring off my bald head, I should have repositioned my glasses before they worked their way to the end of my nose. but, I did not. So, when they slipped off the end of my nose I was quick to grab them, maybe a little too quick, and, my mallet was rubber side down at the time. Yep. I smashed my forehead with the metal side of the mallet. Of course it had to be the worst spot to hit, although I'm not sure hitting yourself anywhere in the forehead with a metal mallet is going to do any less harm. I was bleeding profusely and, I was a bit stunned. By the time I realised what happened the scene had gone from looking like an accident to more along the line of a crime scene. To make matters worse I slipped on the blood and landed on my back on a tube of 10 second grab construction adhesive. Now I was stuck to the floor, I started to slide out of my t-shirt until I felt a sliver enter my lower rib cage, I had to slide back into my shirt to rid myself of the sliver. That's ok, I had a knife in my pocket so I was able to cut off my shirt. It's against safety rules to work without a shirt so I was going to have to go home and change. I had walked to work in the morning so I was walking home when the cops pulled up. They said someone had called them about a bloodied half naked man walking down the street, I did have to admit, that would be me. They asked me about the other guy, I said he was 18 inches tall, weighed about 4 pounds, had a steel skull and a rubber face. That's when they told me to get in the car.

Have a great day

Loved

March 1 2017

I am unable to come up with a new adventure so I will share a favorite of mine.

Katharine Pyle, “The Toys talk of the World”

“I should like,” said the vase from the china-store,
“To have seen the world a little more.

“When they carried me here I was wrapped up tight,
But they say it really is a lovely sight.”

“Yes,” said a little plaster bird,
“That is exactly what I have heard;

“There are thousands of trees, and oh, what a sight
It must be when the candles are all alight.”

The fat top rolled on his other side:
“It is not in the least like that,” he cried.

“Except myself and the kite and ball,
None of you know of the world at all.

“There are houses and pavements, hard and red,
And everything spins around,” he said;

“Sometimes it goes slowly, and sometimes fast,
And often it stops with a bump at last.”

The wooden donkey nodded his head;
“I had heard the world was like that,” he said.

The kite and the ball exchanged a smile,
But they did not speak; it was not worth while.

Have a great day

Loved
 

Feb.1 2017

I walked over to mom and dad's grave site yesterday. It was quite quiet in the yard, the only sound was my boots on the ground. I was trying not to wake anybody. It was hard to find their stone, I had a pretty good idea where it was but they were all covered in snow. I was just about ready to give up when I saw an "INI". I trudged through the snow and cleaned off the rest of the stone to reveal their names and dates and the rosary etched in the granite. The stone really looked good. I thought about leaving a snow angel but by the time you get yourself up afterwards there's not much of an angel left, so I stepped a cross into the snow. I asked them how I was doing and waited for an answer.  None came. I guess they weren't home. As I was leaving I imagined them saying...

Have a great day

Loved

Happy New Year!!!

That's not a good sign, late on the first posting.
Deanie and I are at an after Christmas, before New Years party. I've forgotten something in the car, I'm not one of those who worries about getting alzheimers, I've forgotten stuff for years, when I was young I used to forget to go to school some days, now that I think of it, that may have just been the excuse I used. It's -25 out and you can see some Christmas wrapping fly by so the wind is in the 30 to 40 km/h range, we're looking at maybe -39 wind chill, exposed skin will freeze in minutes. I only plan on being out for seconds, so I'm not putting on a 30 pound parka, my t-shirt will do. You know when they say, "All brawn and no brains", they had me in mind. Come on people! It's the middle of winter, it's Lumsden, it's Saskatchewan, who leaves their lawn sprinkler out. In defense of my eyesight, it was camouflaged by a light coating of snow. I went down like a ton of bricks, oops, I just thought of dad, I'm going to change that. I went down like close to 200 pounds of bricks. I still have the reflexes of a cat, ok, sure, a 65 year old cat, but, still a cat. My hands are still pretty quick, don't get me wrong they weren't all that fast to begin with. I never had the speed of a Wild Bill or Doc Holliday, Doc would have shot me 6 times before my Colt cleared leather and Hickok would have just used me for target practice. I did get my hands out in front of me though, too bad they ended up on either side of a tree trunk. It was my face that slowed the fall, slowed is the operative word there, according to Sir Isaac's law I was destined to contact the ground. Unlike a cat I prefer to land on my back , so I twisted my body around. Yeah, that only managed to give me a cyclone looking scuff mark on my forehead. My bottom hand hit the tree trunk and now was out of position to stop my fall. It was my elbow that brought my body to rest and drove my shoulder into the side of my head. Now, I could say I've never had a concussion but I think history would prove me a liar, so, when I saw the light at the end of the tunnel this time, I rushed toward it. You know what? It's just a bunch of stars circling around. When I came back there was a feeling of warmth on my left side. When you step in a pile of it, it's bad enough but when you're lying in it, yuck. I had to discard my shirt. So, I'm walking around in a daze, half naked, when the RCMP drive by. The officer is mumbling something about public intoxication. Ok, now I'm doing a sobriety test, the numpty asks me to close my eyes and touch my finger to my nose. I close my eyes, there's those stars again, but my nose is about six times bigger because it was the first of my face to hit the tree trunk, easy pass. He tells me to get inside. Gladly. It's nice to be warm again. Oh! Gotta go, I forgot something in the car.

Have a great day

Loved