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Lake Huron The Daytripper Exploring in and around CLINTON MI SHOP NY LOCAL ONTARIO Memory Lane If you have the time, please come with me on a walk down memory lane—back to my childhood, many moons ago. I had a very happy childhood, although with eight children, Mom and Dad and Dad’s mom, “Nanny” in one house, it was not easy for Dad to keep enough food on the table. Dad knew responsibility at a very young age. When he was barely seventeen his father died and Dad was then the sole supporter of his mom. He had to give up any education he may have wanted to get a job. Nanny lived in our home from the time Dad and Mom were married until her death when I was fourteen. You rarely heard my dad complain about his role in life. He was always smiling and had a wonderful sense of humour. He was a very honest man and expected everyone else to be the same. He never locked his door, saying, “A lock only keeps the honest man out.” Dad would walk into a store, any store, and promptly say, “Could I get a quarter’s worth of ten dollar bills?” Needless to say he never found a merchant who would accommodate him. He would chuckle and say, “Oh, well, it was worth a try.” He would occasionally run a bill By Blanche Haskett, Delhi at the local grocery store and if it was owed longer than the owner thought it should be, he’d ask Dad when he’d be able to close the account. Dad would say a certain time and he would have the money to pay it. “You know, my friend, I’d rather owe it to you than beat you out of it.” And he would smile. Whenever us kids would say we were afraid, Dad would say, “Never be afraid until you see something worse than yourself,” and “Don’t worry about being kidnapped. They’ll bring you back at the first lamp post.” “Beech, birch and maple, all begins with A.” When we all went out, it took two cars. Dad would say to the second driver, “If I get there first, I’ll draw a line. If you get there first, you rub it out.” As each of us grew older we understood the joke, but as youngsters, we’d always look for that imaginary line. We would often wake up to Dad shouting up the stairs, “Time to get up, kids. It’s daylight in the swamp!” We couldn’t understand why we had to get up. We never lived near any darn swamp! “Beech, birch and maple, all begins with A,” Dad would say to us. We would argue the point until he’d say, “Well, all does begin with A.” He taught us to say the alphabet backwards. I happened to say it in front of my seven year old granddaughter one day and she asked me to write it down for her, which I did. Two weeks later when I visited them she was quite excited when she said the alphabet backwards as if she had been saying it as long as I had. My son learned it while on guard duty one night in a foreign country. “If you and Patricia can do it, I can too!” When we’d ask Dad to read anything to us, he’d say, “You’d better read it. I went to night school. I can’t read in the daytime.” As each of us started driving, he’d say, “Now don’t forget to watch the car in front of the car behind you.” “Yes, Dad, we’ll be careful.” We were a poor family by monetary means, but we soon learned that we were the richest family we knew because love and laughter were the two main ingredients in our household. We grew up healthy and happy and every one of us inherited Dad’s unique sense of humour. Thanks, Dad! You should sit in nature for 20 minutes a day. Unless you are really busy - then you should sit for an hour! KILDONAN HOUSE BED & BREAKFAST A Healing Arts & Energy Wellness Haven Retail: Crystals • Books • Oracle/Tarot Cards Pottery • Incense • Artisan Crafts & Gifts Services by Appointment: • Card & Mediumship• Crystal Healing • Reiki• ThetaHealing®• Reflexology• More Open Fri 12-7, Sat 12-5 & Any Time by Appt. Ask about our private group bookings & upcoming workshops, classes & events. Your Open Door to Infinite Possibilities... 86 Albert Street, Clinton @journeysofthesoulwithjackie jackie@journeysofthesoul.ca 43 Albert St. CLINTON 226-457-0575 OPEN BY APPT. OR CHANCE QUALITY Mennonite-CRAFTED Furniture, MADE IN ONTARIO www.cinnamoncabinco.ca 71 KIRK ST, CLINTON 519-482-1163 A must see store, come & explore. Gourmet Edibles & One-of-a-Kind Items! 26 Isaac St., Clinton See Facebook for Current Hours 519-482-1445 www.madeinhuron.com Page 24 “There is only one pretty child in the world and every mother has it.” (Chinese Proverb) May-June 2021
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