Second Cousins

Laura went to Toronto in my car to visit with her second cousin Kellan.  He is a professional animator and is a lot like Laura.  Laura got a late start but that was okay because he had an urgent job to complete and he needed to work on it the whole day.  When she arrived they got on famously.  Later he posted a photo of them on facebook and Barb's cousins from Labrador were very happy that they had been able to get together.

Old Photos

Laura and I were staying up late together looking at a little box of old pictures of her childhood.  She was having a great time.  Then the next morning when we got up Barb was out at pickleball but she had brought in two big boxes of old photos.  That kept Laura busy for quite a while.

Blog Notes

I thought it would be fun to go through my little pieces of paper with my notes for my blog with Laura.  I was really behind on my blog by quite a few months.  So one night we kept Barb up late reviewing the crazy stories for my blog.  Barb had a great laugh because she was the star of most of the stories.  She always says I wouldn't have anything to write about if it wasn't for her adventures.

Hayseed

On Thanksgiving day, Barb stayed home and cooked the turkey while all of us went out to Shantz Family Farm.  We got there and looked at of the animals with the little kiddies.  Then we looked at all of the pumpkins.  We waited to get our picture in the head holes of a Thanksgiving display.  We had to lie on our stomachs on bales of hay because the display was made for little kids.  Afterwards, Julia's yoga pants were covered with hay and she didn't even bother to brush the hay off.  So first Sarah tried to brush the hay off and then I tried to brush the hay off while we were waiting for the hayride.  We all went on a long hayride with a bunch of crying babies and unhappy small children.  Then we tried to find our way around the corn field maze.  It was kind of scary.  My sister and brother in law didn't go into the corn field maze with us. They went back to the house to walk their dog.  Then we got an urgent message from Barb saying the dinner was ready and we had to rush home.  When we got home my sister and her husband were still out walking the dog.  Even though Barb texted her, the girls still decided that they should go out and find them which was kind of strange because they didn't know their way around the park and might never find their way home.  Eventually everyone arrived home at the same time and we were able to have dinner before everything got cold.

Thanksgiving

Barb was preparing for Thanksgiving dinner at our house and my sister and her husband were coming.  Laura was coming from Vancouver because she was off on short-term disability with her finger.  And Sarah was coming of course.  But there was some confusion about whether Julia was coming.  At first Sarah said Julia was coming and staying with her.  Then we heard that all of the trains were full and Julia was going to stay in Ottawa.  Then the day before Thanksgiving, Julia messaged us and said she had found a ticket and was coming.  We were one big happy Thanksgiving family.

New Doctor

When we arrived in New Hamburg two years ago we did not have a doctor.  We went to the local family clinic and asked if we could become patients.  The lady said there was a waiting list.  So we put our names on a waiting list but in the meantime we got a doctor in Kitchener.  He was okay but Barb didn't think he was very personable.  She said he didn't seem to care.  I didn't mind.  He did everything I needed from him but his office never answered the phone or returned messages.  So it was very difficult to make appointments without going into the office and the office was 20 minutes drive away.  We were happy when the local clinic phoned and said that a new doctor there was taking new patients.  The office was only 5 minutes drive away and I could even walk there if I wanted to.  We went to an appointment together and he took all of our particulars and seemed like a nice young man.  Barb called him Doogie Houser.

Used Barbecue

We needed a barbecue after ours went up in flames.  Barb was coming home from the pool and noticed that someone had put out a barbecue for the garbage.  I was on my walk and saw that someone had put a barbecue out for the garbage.  Both of us saw one of these barbecues and we confused each other when we were talking about where the barbecue was.  Barb decided to phone the fellow that put out her barbecue and ask him if it worked.  She looked up the house in the village phone book and phoned him and asked if his barbecue worked.  He said yes why are you asking.  Barb said she saw it in the garbage and thought she might come by and pick it up.  He said that wasn't his barbecue.  She must have the wrong person.  She hung up and looked up the address again and talked to the right person this time.  He said his barbecue worked but was just a little rusty.  So we went out in the middle of the night and drove over to the man's house and then Barb walked the barbecue home and we carried it up on the deck.  Then we walked our burned out barbecue down to the corner for the garbage the next day.