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The
Squamidian Report – Dec. 6 / 25
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#1228 Including: Nova Scotia Sus Gary Carol Doug ****
From Nova Scotia Sus
Winter has hit us with lots of snow and icy roads. I'm so glad I went with studded tires this time i feel so much safer hugging the roads. The next few days don't sound much better either. Nothing like jumping right in to winter. After all it is December. Our local post office changed anyone who lives outside of the village to mail delivery boxes on the side of our road. Its not a big box and could be carried away with no trouble. Also with this storm the box is knee deep with snow, my box is at the bottom and nowhere to pull off the road to pick up mail. As you can see I am not impressed. I will just have to wait and see. I'm not usually a complainer but I just had to get that off my chest. Thanks to all of you sending in your stories it has been a pleasure to read. Thanks Doug for your songs too. The two of you are sounding great.
Sus ****
From Gary
Hello fellow Squamidians. Not much going on around here. We have very cold weather and only about 3” of snow on the ground. The last few days while walking Harley, Max’s dog, has been interesting. He keeps watching the bush and often his shackles are up. Sure enough I saw coyotes watching us from a distance 2 days in a row. Yesterday 2 dark ones and 1 was quite large. Today was a smaller blond one. Take care and stay safe everyone.
Gary ****
From Carol
Did anyone notice the moon tonight ( Thursday)? I gather that it is a little closer to Earth right now than it will be again for awhile. Of course the sky soon clouded over so here in Kitchener you would have to outside at the right time. The long range weather forecast here tells me the cold won’t be going away anytime soon so a white Christmas is pretty much guaranteed. I spent the day baking Christmas cookies for our church cookie sale on Saturday. We have our Christmas decorations ready to put up. For the last 2 years getting ready for Christmas wasn’t really an option for health reasons so this year I’m actually getting a little excited. I’ve even mailed out any out of town Christmas cards we are going to send. Cam, Jamie’s oldest son, and his girl Clair will be coming from Victoria to spend a week around Christmas here which will make the holidays even brighter. In last Sunday’s message our minister was quoting a letter from an American minister who was talking about people putting up lights and decorations earlier than usual this year because he believes everyone needs Christmas hope and good cheer more than usual right now because of all the bad that is happening. I guess there is 1 chance in 365 that December 25th is Jesus’ birthday but Christmas is a story about the birth of hope so the actual date is immaterial. Speaking of hope, I understand things are going well for Tim. He healed quickly so all his staples from his surgery have been removed. The doctors told him that when he doesn’t have any appointments on a Friday he can go home for the weekend, as long as he is back for his first appointment Monday morning. So this weekend they are at home. This is even better for Heidi because being the caregiver is not easy. Last week was our grandson Nick’s birthday and this week our granddaughter turned 17. I don’t know where the time went, how can our baby girl gotten so old so quickly? It often feels like time is a runaway train going faster and faster down hill with no brakes. Have a good week.
Carol ****
From Doug
Carol challenged us to talk about going back in time. Doing that could be interesting, perhaps even fun, but I really don’t think I’d want to run into any family or relatives and definitely not into a kid version of me. That would be creepy. It would be interesting to be the ‘now’ me driving around the Waterloo County back roads of ‘then’, pulling over and stopping along the road by the homestead, and getting out to walk around a bit. But I wouldn’t want to run into anyone. It would be interesting to drive out township road 23 and then take what would become Sheldon Ave to get to highway 8 and then head on into Kitchener. It would be interesting to go the other way and take Sim’s Rd in to Centerville and then head on up to Kitchener. If this was somewhere in the mid 50’s we might even see a steam engine hauling a train up the tracks and into town. Exploring the country side and near by little villages would be fascinating. Perhaps a trip over to ‘Guelph corner’ and on up highway 6 would be well worth while and of course driving along the old narrow bumpy road past the old farm would be beyond cool. Can’t go back in real life but certainly can do it in the confines of the old imagination. Not a bad way to pass some time. * We did our gondola gig last Saturday as most of you probably know. It was great although quite challenging. Because ‘Santa’ was up there doing his thing ahead of our time, it was chaotic, very loud and noisy, and jam packed with people. Once many of them headed outside the room became much nicer, better. Getting set up was difficult because of all the people but again, once many headed outside, things smoothed out. We played out sets and our music was very well received. We enjoyed doing it, they enjoyed hearing it. And by the way, we did not do X-mass music, and most there were quite relieved about that as they are being inundated with that ‘muzak’ every where they go these days. As we played, the sun set over the mountains giving a nice colorful sunset. Very nice. I had managed to snag half a dozen free lift tickets for some of my rowdy biker friends who live in the city and they all turned up as did many local friends of mine and of Jane’s. A great evening and there will be more in the future.
Doug ****
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