Sunday, August 09th
Hi there to all my fraternity brothers ... from the bush of North-western Ontario:
Another day of rain and cold temperatures ... at least it hasn’t snowed recently ... but a few mornings of only +4C ... which is about 10 degrees cooler than normal.
I understand that the Niagara Peninsula was blessed with some decent weather this weekend ... congratulations ...
I’m posting my anticipated schedule as I will have my laptop in my saddlebags and will be checking the blog every evening ... so if I’m passing nearby you can post a comment or e-mail me at: thebushprof@gmail.com or penesehwaubemaygwun@yahoo.ca and maybe we can connect for a coffee or a lunch ...
I hope you’re as excited about the upcoming reunion as I am ... I plan to fly out to Thunder Bay the weekend of September 19th and start riding south on the 21st. In an unexpected turn of events, my wife Ida has been able to take the time off to come along. She and her sister will probably spend most of the weekend at the Casino ... but hopefully she'll get to meet lots of other old cronies .. verifying that there really are other people in the world as old as her husband!!
It should take a couple of days to get to Sarnia ... and then on to visit a friend in Bolton – after 51 years of not seeing one another I hope she recognizes me!! ... and a fun-filled evening of Geritol martinis, pre-chewed salad, and perhaps a good bottle of wine if we can remember what to do with it ... (just kidding!!). Actually, we went to public school and high school together so we go back close to 60 years and we have all that time to talk about ... I'm sure she'll have lots of horror stories to tell my wife.
From there, we're planning to spend part of a day in St. Catharines with our son and 3 grandsons. This probably will be the 24th. He works all day, and 2 of the kids are in University so their time is limited.
Then off to Niagara Falls for the 25th so that I can just cruise around the city, Queenston and NOTL for the day and revel in memories, and maybe hook up with Keith (Alpha & Delta) and any other bros living in the Falls for the evening ...
A couple of questions about the reunion:
1. Will it be held indoors, outdoors, or both?
2. How formal/informal will it be? ... so that I know what type of clothing to jam into my saddlebags ... leathers and rain-gear may not be in vogue ...
3. Will there be on-going music? ... hopefully someone will lend his 100+watt system ... and lots of “oldies CD’s” ... or we could just crank up CKOC 1150 Oldies ... I don’t know about you, but music was a big part of my high school life ...
4. How about some suggestions for places to eat ... I’m sure things have changed a bit since I last lived there 50+ years ago ...
5. Are you sure that $20 is going to cover things? Please let us know, preferable after a few drinks, and we’ll be more generous.
6. Has a “taxi hotline” been set up? ... because I’m “taxi-ing-it” from the hotel to the reunion and it would be nice to have a list of taxi numbers to “call me a cab” back to the hotel ... at 1:00 a.m. may have trouble reading the phone book!!
Will close for now, but watch for more silliness ...
All the best, and looking forward to seeing you ...
Peneseh, ... Jim McKernan
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