Ruth, Jennifer, John and Imogen arrived back from their 7 day trip to Jamaica. They got to visit Ruth's mom who is 84 and they had 4 generations in the same place. The next day Saturday March 15 was Roger Peterson's funeral in Weyburn, so I drove to Regina with Bernard and met up with the Krogsgaard clan in Regina and had the privilege of travelling with Richard, Wendy Ulrich, Bernard and his son Kresten, and Ellis to Weyburn. I would estimate that there were well over 400 people at the funeral. Bill and Vi Bell were well enough to attend the funeral and the visiting after, and Bill and Mary and Sheena got snapped by the "poppa-ratzi". Bill and Mary and Andrea are on their way to India to visit Ray and Ellen with their LST team.
(On the way back from Weyburn, Kresten rode with someone else. ) It was again a privilege to ride with a group that you knew was not going to talk about trivial matters. (Right in the city of Weyburn we were slowed down by a herd of 15 whitetail deer crossing the street.) After gassing up the car in Regina, I don't remember passing through any of the towns except Chamberlain where we had to slow down. The trip seemed to take about 5 minutes although Bernard seemed to have talked for several hours! If he had talked a little faster, maybe the trip would have seemed to take only 4 minutes. Anyway, I enjoyed every minute of it.
Ruth and I went to visit Bill Bell on June 14 and 14 to see how he is doing, and it happened to coincide with father's day. Here is a picture of Bill walking down the aisle with Ruth in 1971 (July 24 if you are wondering) and the next picture was taken in 2008 which would be almost 37 years later. (His daughter Reva from Ohio also had come to visit.)
John, Ian, Roy, Lynn and Arlene who spent a couple of hours finalizing the church budget recommendations for next fall's meeting.
On May 24, 2008 Robert and Melissa Orr invited the church family to an old-fashioned roof raising at their house on St. Andrew's Avenue. About 40 people showed up (including women, children and babies) and we had a barbecue at lunchtime and pizza for supper. Andrew and I got there shortly after 9:00 AM and we didn't leave until about 9:30 With the two breaks for meals we probably put in at least 11 hours of work! There were others who probably did more than 12 hours namely Robert and his dad Harold. What a great time! Thank you Robert and Melissa (and Josiah) for letting us help out.
Jennifer was born on May 5, so this was a belated birthday cake for her since it is the 10th already.
Imogen has such tiny fingers and she can wrap them so strongly around mine. It is interesting what 60 years of ageing does to the skin. (I'll be 60 this summer.) She is also starting to stand by holding her own weight although she needs help to balance. She can sit up but she doesn't discuss much about politics yet.
