Hello everyone! Well, now I am playing catch-up - I was so hot and humid in Wpg - not too bad when I went outside or in my car, but then I didn't have access to the Internet - so here's a summary of my activities in the last week or so.
JULY 4 - Went to see a lady who had contacted me when she saw Dan's obituary in the Winnipeg Free Press, she was into genealogy and knew that her husband was related to mine - she invited me over to her house in St. Vital - we had a wonderful time - she has the Family Tree Maker program as well and said that if I brought her a flash drive she would download all her information for me. It was so nice to talk to someone who loves genealogy as much as I do. She said she felt the same - Different strokes for different folks, as they say!
JULY 5 - Arose at 6.15 am - sat in Margaret's cabana - so much cooler in there - Margaret made soup (summer borscht) and rhubarb sauce in her cabana - made a bunch of calls while in the cabana trying to stay cool - or rather cooler! Congratulations to my friend, Lorraine on becoming a great grandmother for the second time this year - a great granddaughter this time! Enjoy them both, my friend!
JULY 6 - Visited Dan's last living Aunty Frances who is 95 - she is having trouble remembering, but I do believe that she remembered me - at least for the moment.- When I said that I was Doreen, Danny;s wife, she said, "Oh Danny was such a good boy, Danny was such a funny boy!" LOL She is living with her daughter who lent me three albums of pictures to scan onto my computer - She had some old wedding pictures of aunts and uncles. Lunch (hot dogs) at Lawrence Auto Repair ( where they fixed my car) - every Friday they have hot dogs or hamburgers - Thank you Dorothy - Margaret and Dorothy went shopping so I decided to go to St.Vital cemetery to see Lorne, but on my way, I stopped at 37 Fermor Ave - our first home that we purchased in October of 1964 when Debbie was just a 5 months old. A guy was doing something at the back of the truck in front of the house, so I stopped and asked him if he lived at # 37. He said yes so I told him that I had lived there from 1964 to 1967 (Kim was born while we lived there). He said it was okay to take some pictures and we kept on chatting - he told me that they had renovated the whole house, opened up the veranda to make the living room larger, and the basement. They raised three children there - told him I was happy to hear that a happy family was still living there - one thing led to another and he invited me in to see the inside - he had done a great job, but it still felt like home - what a flood of memories - Wow! I have had so many sentimental moments on this trip! He said he like to see what the house looked like in the sixties, so I'll be e-mailing him pictures. After that I did go to the cemetery and paid brother Lorne (and Bette) a little visit. Then I went to London Drugs and bought an external hard drive (instead of a flash-drive), stopped in at my new friend's home and she transferred all the information on the Marks' family that she had on her computer to mine.Watched part of the Wpg/Mtl game and all of the BC/Hamilton game - with the time change, Margaret went to bed to read and so I could watch it till midnight - Lori, Kim & I texted back & forth throughout the game - was fun, not a very pretty game but we will take the W none the less.
JULY 7 - Linda & Gary came for coffee, as did Judy and Leonard - we waited all day for Marg's new frig to arrive - finally arrived at 7 pm -
JULY 8 - Slept in - felt a bit out of sorts, but started feeling better after a while, so decided to go to the 11am Mass at Saint Bernadette's in Windsor Park - not far from where Leonard & Evelyn and Margaret & Bill lived in the 70s. At the introduction before Mass Fr. said that he was a bit unsure about the future - after a pause, he added, " I guess you're all wondering whether I am talking about the weather or the Bombers". Everyone chuckled and then he welcomed all visitors and asked us to stand and say where we were from. I couldn't pass up that opportunity so I stood up straight and said, "Kelowna BC - Go BC Lions!" That brought an even bigger chuckle - he must be quite a football fan because later on at the baptism of a little boy, the boy's father dropped a 'yet unlit' candle to which Fr. remarked, "Maybe you should play for the Bombers - Oops - Sorry!" I'm not sure if everyone 'got' that remark. Sunday night we were invited to Leonard & Karen's for a lovely roasted chicken dinner complete with all the trimmings! Thank you, Len & Karen - it was a lovely evening.
JULY 9 - Spent most of the day scanning pictures from the 3 albums and printing some pictures for Margaret that she wanted from our trip and various other occasions.
JULY 10 - Took a drive to return the albums and say Hi to Aunty - she wasn't as alert as she was on Friday. Later in the afternoon I took a drive over to Len & Karen's again - we looked at some old pictures - many of Len as a young boy which he hadn't seen or didn't remember seeing, so I have to send him copies of some of them when I get home. Karen made BLT's for dinner - just too hot for big meals - even with A/C.
JULY 11 - Five years since brother Marvin passed away - RIP Bro! Hottest day so far! Even after a cool shower it was difficult to get dressed! Wonderful to get into the car and drive to Carman - we ( Dyck cousins) met at Kathleen's home and then went to Harry & Anne's to surprise them - Harry was 90 on July 10 and Anne's was 80 on the 12th. The common room had A/C so had a real nice visit - lemonade, iced tea etc - then we all went out to dinner and back to the common room for dessert - lots of laughts - pictures - a good time was had by all - their were seven cousins and three spouses, plus Len & Karen. Back at Marg's it was sweltering once again.
JULY 12 - Packed up early before it got too hot and left Wpg shortly after 9 am - stopped at Richer to see an old RC church that has was closed in 1995 but the community has made a lot of beautiful upgrades and are turning it into a heritage site with a lot artifacts from the turn of the century - it's called Enfant Jesus. I stopped and was just going to take a few pictures of the outside when a couple pulled up and invited me to come into the church and she gave me a royal tour - what a nice little break. I continued east arriving in Vermilion Bay just after 2 pm - went to the cemetery to visit Marvin, and then waited till Mary arrived home,
Take care and God Bless!
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