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The
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#1145 Russ Nova Scotia Sus The Ontarion Doug
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From Russ
Nasty things! At least two 'nasty things' on my mind today are; my colonoscopy, and invasive, hammerhead flatworms. Wednesday, I pick up the stuff to make one poop, and poop, and poop in preparation for a colonoscopy, which takes place on Thursday. Those of you who've been there know the prep is far worse than the procedure! Hope they don't find what they're looking for! I'll keep you posted (if I make it!) On a par with a nasty colonoscopy, is the discovery of yet another invasive creature from Asia. It was shown on the Weather Channel as well as on the local news channel, has found a home in Kitchener, and it's enough to cause you permanently reigning from any gardening!! It's called the Toxic Invasive Hammerhead Flatworm, it grows to 3 feet in length, and will eat your small pets. It's toxic to small animals, but will do no harm to you - it has the same kind of poison as the Puffer-fish, will cause only a tingle to your hands, but you're cautioned not to touch them with bare hands - always wear gloves (you couldn't pay me enough to touch one with my bare hands!!) The safest way to handle one is with gloved hands, and using a shovel. DON"T CHOP ONE UP, as each segment will grow into another HAMMERHEAD flatworm!! It is advised you take a picture if you see one - send the picture, plus the exact location to the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. They will attend to the nasty critter! Love to you all,
Uncle Russ. ****
From Nova Scotia Sus
Last evening we heard the sound of geese honking. Next thing you know they landed in our pond. This is a rare occurrence for us. Geese need open areas to gradually land and now that a lot of our trees are down they have room for a nice landing. We quietly sneaked up to them for a better view. What beautiful birds they are. Then we moved out of there view to give them the privacy they wanted. Our sawmill is working out good and we are making lots of lumber. It's pretty slick the way it cuts through the logs with ease. Also giving us a lot of slabwood for burning next winter and probably too much. You get more slabwood than lumber when cutting 4 sides of a log. Anyway I'd say it was a good investment. Also getting lots of exercise. Next month we are hiring a couple of guys to help clean up the many trees that fell during Fiona. They have been recommended to us. They come with a chipper to deal with branches too. It's not cheap to hire them but it has to be done. The worry of a forest fire makes us decide to get help. We will work with them to make it go faster. Yesterday was lobster 🦞 pot day. All the fishermen were setting there traps and I hear the haul was big. People here go crazy for lobster. Me I would rather have crab but I'm not from here and don't have the need.
Sus ****
The Ontarion
Hello everyone I didn’t forget about my column this week! So here it is! Thinking back to my youth is always fun and generates so many good memories! Especially my teenage years! I had three good friends that made those times good in deed! Their names were Dan Buss, Donny Rioux and Craig Woelfle! Sadly two of the big 4 are gone now but that doesn’t stop me from thinking of them! We had so many good times it’s hard to list them all! One of our favourite hangouts in our teen years was the now history Sonny’s drive in burger joint on Weber St in Waterloo! We spent most weekend evenings at Sonny’s eating burgers and drinking their chocolate shakes….. not to mention their delicious home made fries! All of which I’m sure contributed to my present health problems? LOL! Of course, not funny at all! If I’m honest about those days and nights we spent a lot of those times fighting with those who were basically jealous of our group for the most part! Invariably someone would mouth off to one of us and of course when they challenged one of us it meant they faced the wrath of the “Big 4” and a Donnybrook would ensue! I can’t count how many times we’d jump into Donny’s ‘58 Chevy Belaire and take off before the Waterloo police would arrive! Only a few times did the dust ups result in a bloody nose or two and usually on one of our challengers! Oh well, all in all yes they are still good memories! At least they give me stuff to write about! In the meantime, please stay safe and I’ll look forward to next week’s Ontarion! PS: as you might have gathered, Sonny’s was demolished about 6 months ago so all I have are my memories and a lovely local artists painting of the Sonny’s joint that was a gift from Carole and Adam to remind me of those good old days! PPS: thank you Carole and Adam! Bye for this week everyone and thanks for tuning in each week! Greg ****
From Doug May
The
Fourth Be With You
How’s it going…..eh? The west coast cherry blossoms are pretty well over with now. The blossom displays are famous around the world and tend to attract visitors from all over who want to see then. The funny thing is, they should have been over with way back in March but our spring was and is so far behind that the blossoms hadn’t even started by the time they should have been over with. But, now, in early May, they are mostly done with. We were in Horseshoe Bay last Sunday morning for our usual get-together with our riding friends and the streets there were pink with fallen blossoms. (Slippery too). A cold driving rain was blowing them off the trees. The cherry trees are still in blossom up our way, a month and a half late, but they too are just about finished now as well. Cherry blossoms over with in the Bay.
* Just for your listening pleasure, I’ve got another audio recording project put together for y’all. It’s an old country tune called ‘How I’d Love To Be Alone With You’, put out by Faron Young way back in 1958. The only reason I even know this song is because I have memories of my uncle Carman up on the farm playing it and singing it when we were kids. Funny how things like that stick in the back corners of the old brain, waiting to be triggered by some small memory jogger. I don’t even know what triggered me to recall this one but something did and thats good enough for me. I can close my eyes and see him sitting in the corner of the old farm house living room, his cigarette stashed under the guitar strings up at the neck head, the smoke coming up and stinging his eyes. (I admired him but not his smelly smokes). He would rattle off a whole bunch of tunes, fairly new songs then but oldy moldy songs now. It would have been one of those rare parties where people would simply turn up for the evening, and have to leave in time to tend to the chores that had to be done at the end of each day. Anyway, here’s this song, and as usual I’be put in some 4-part harmony as well as several instruments, just because I can. Click and enjoy. How
I’d
Love To Be Alone With You (Next week the video version, maybe) Doug ****
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