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March 18, 2006
HAPPY 8th BIRTHDAY, MADISON!
Madi is now 8yrs. old and we all celebrated it with some great ice cream cake!
Here are some pics from the party!
a pic of birthday giggles!
the two arm wrestlers!!
Birthday presys for Madi!
Cary and Thomas at the party!
Roy and Brad having a serious discussion!
The birthday girl has now spent all her loot on more dollls and doodads! Ha! Ha! you can only be 8yrs. old once!
Two pics of Jeremy at the party.
Carol and Margot catching up on the gossip!
Poor Josh, burned his hands at work on the grease fryer, VERY painful! He was rushed up to emergency from work and he had quite a few blisters, but they healed up fairly quickly--he had to for his holiday!!
Madi in her new jeans that Shelby bought her--cute!
Well, I'm now getting bog-eyed so I shall post some more tomorrow!
Love to all! xoxoxo
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REUNIONS! BIRTHDAYS! OLD FRIENDS! MEMORIES!
Well, this is going to be a full blog as I haven't posted for a couple of weeks!
First of all, Roy and I went to Thunder Bay. He had to renew his passport and we also had a reunion with a very old friend of mine from Teachers' College Days--Sylvia Beach. We've known Sylvia since 1969 and as we were both born in England and were in the same class in the College we hit ir off right away! We even went on a couple of trips to the Caribbean together, once to St. Kitts--a week in our March break and once to St. Lucia--Sally came on this trip too
Sylvia is now 88yrs. old and is still going strong! She is the pianist in two bands and they play regularly at dances. What a good example for me and everyone!
We stayed at the Valhalla Inn, a very nice hotel near the airport. It had 2 restaurantss, an informal one called Timbers and a very nice one called the Nordic Dining Room. There was the Nordic Canadian Cross Country Ski championships going on and there were happy ,rosy-cheeked skiers in the Timbers informal dining room. We ate our breakfasts and lunches there and one supper. When Sylvia met us on Friday we ate in the Nordic dining room--what a treat! Our meal started with an "amuse bouche" a little sampling from the chef. It was a slice of cucumber with fresh tuna and chopped sauteed mushrooms--yummy! We all had juice as I always get too full if I have soup and an entree and dessert!! Roy had Conish Game Hen , roasted with orange glaze, Sylvia had pork tenderloin medallions stacked in a little tower! I had some orange roughy fish wrapped in bok choy leaves and flavoured with Asian spices and served on basmati rice--delicious! Then we all pigged out and had dessert! Sylvia had macadamia nut ice cream, Roy had a sinfully delicious chocolate cheesecake and I had orange walnut creme brulee--it was awesome!!
The weather was really wet for the skiiing and the day we left on the bus, there was lightning and thunder!! This was in March!! We sure have had a mild winter on the whole!
Here are a couple of other pics from our trip!
Roy and Sylvia in the lobby before supper.
Sylvia and Caol--two old buddies!
I'm eating spaghetti Alfredo in the casual restaurant!
Sylvia and Roy in the Nordic Dining Room before supper.
Here, Roy is eating some seafood stew with mussels, scallops, cod and crab. Taste of stuff we cannot get in Dryden!
When we were in St. Lucia we rented an old white van which we christened "Bertha Breadbox"!! She had a coconut under one seat to support the back seat and we had lots of adventures in old Bertha!
We hope Sylvia will have many more productive years ahead of her!
Now for the next section of my blog!
MADISON'S BIRTHDAY!! Happy 8th birthday, Madi!!
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March 3, 2006
REMEMBERING!
This blog is a variety of stuff! First of all, a photo of our old J-3! It was sold last year--boo!hoo! to a guy who has completely refurbished it. It is now in its original Piper colous as it came from the factory. It looks like a brand new bird!! Here are a few more pics.
The J-3 is sitting in the hanger at Nestor Falls where all the work was done on it.
Here is the J-3 again.
The old J-3 used to be red and white so it seems strange at first to see this Snoopy tyoe plane flying around! We are glad she now has a new owner who loves her! Alas, finances and healthe stopped both Alfred and Roy carrying on. They owned the plane 50/50.
I learned to fly in a Citabria and also a Super Cub which has more power than a J-3 and also has flaps. The day I soloed the Super Cub was one of the highlights of my whole life! I remember getting home and I just had to write a poem about it! I was 3 ft. of the ground for the rest of the day! Life experiences make us what we are for sure!
Time for a lunch break!!
I also had a nap!
This is a pic from 1975! Guin is just a baby, Shelby is 3 yrs. old and Grandma and Grandpa Orvis are sitting on our old couch when we lived at Philip Street. Shelby looks a lot like her Grandma Orvis--I saw an old photo of her and thought it was Shelby!
Grandma Orvis's name was Deborah Marion Orvis--Dora for short and Roy's Dad's name was Leslie Alfred Orvis. Guin looks just like Roy now she is older but she has lots of hair!!
This is a pic I have been trying to put on my blog!! It shows a bunch if us at the Go Getters Centre doing Swedish embroidery and other crafts. We do this every Wednesday and it keeps us out of mischiefF The class is followed by a lovely home made lunch oi soup, sandwiches, cake and tea or coffee. This pic shows Garra in the green sweater and I am in the purple sweater on the left.
An old pic from the archives1 Guin and Wraith, Bill and Leone's granddaughter, are fooling around!
Wraith used to learn all the dances that we learned by correspondence and phone calls from her Grandma as she used to live in Winnipeg. She would then join us for the dance recitals we used to have! Leone used to do all the choreography for those productions. We had so much fun and worked our little dancer hearts out! Guin used to take lessons and we'd both go down to the basement at Hansson's where the dance studio was. Leone had mirrors on the wall and a barre on the wall for our warmups. I started dancing with Leone in 1972, just after I had Shelby--to try and lose some weight! It didn't work but my legs got strong! When I was pregnant with Guin I danced up until 2 weeks before she was born--she had little dancer's leg muscles when she was born and used to kick me to pieces after the class! Those were the days! After the recital we always had a wild party as we'd all be high from performing and we'd have quite a bit to drink!!!
Sadly those days are over, but again, they are part of me and I never regret taking those wonderful dance classes!
Here is an old pic of Leone.
Now, very sadly . Leone has Allzheiner's and is just a shadow of her former self. She and Bill come over for coffee and we pop over to their place for a cuppa and a natter!
They used to have a "raft" built on pontoons and we'd all go out to Good Lake and go fishing and have a BarBQ on the raft--lots of fun!
Well, I sure blew the photo of Grandma and Grandpa Orvis with the girls!
Let's hope that turns out!!
Hooray! It did!
Well. I have to go it's supper time! will post some more tomorrow!!
love and hugs ! xoxoxo
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