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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

Posted by Cas at March 3, 2006 12:56 PM

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