Attended Mardi's Christmas Concert, at S.C. United, Sunday night. That was about our only real excitement over the weekend.
Yesterday we took Mardi's plants to the greenhouse - Sean has agreed to look after them while we're away. And we put her car into storage at the office. Hope the trickle charger keeps the battery alive for three months. If the battery dies the engine has to be lifted out in order to replace the battery - did that once, pretty expensive!
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Today we headed for the Argyle Restaurant in Caledonia to join Bonnie, Steve, Diane and Greg for a pre-Christmas dinner together.
Good food, good friends. A nice night out.----------------------------------------
Now, let's just deal with birthdays for a minute. Today grandson Malcolm is 27 (and he's the fourth oldest grandchild - we must be getting old!).
Tomorrow is the actual birthday of the lovely Rachelle - we celebrated her 40th at the surprise party last week. And the day after is her sister Rebecca's birthday. And on the 22nd it's brother Roger's turn.
We leave for Mexico very early on December 21 (leave the house about 2 a.m. to pick up A.J., Michelle and Reggie to catch a 6 a.m. flight) and I'm not sure what the internet situation will be down there, so that's why I'm sending December 22 birthday greetings to my brother today.
I was 12 when Roger was born. Two years later, our dad died in an industrial accident and I, apparently, became a father figure to Roger.
About eight years later, our mother remarried and I completed the transition - brother, father, friend. Roger wrote a song about that and the guys played it for me on my 70th birthday.
That's Roger and me on the screen. When he was young I took him on a fishing trip to Trent River with my work buddies. Years later, he returned the favour by inviting me to join him and his friends at Lake Weslemkoon.
Some of the guys could play musical instruments and Roger put together a campfire band, which he called "Fishguts". We all had nicknames and mine was Dorsal, which is the main fin on the back of the fish (Roger thought it was somewhere else when he picked it for me, but that's another story๐).
We even had a race named after our group!
Due to Covid and a misunderstanding, my time with the group ended. But lots of good memories.
Happy birthday and have a great day - my brother, my son, my friend.
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Hopefully, we'll still be able to keep in touch from Cancun over the next week. Barry, I will try to participate in the daily Wordle scrum, but if not, just carry on without me. It's not as if I'm a threat to win or anything! And, if you run out of humourous sayings to start each day, how about the following? "If a man speaks in a forest where no woman can hear, is he still wrong?"
And for another bit of humour - I don't know if there ever was a physics competition between the Americans and the Chinese, but the following picture is somewhat telling. Thanks Wayne.
Stay well and have a great Christmas folks!