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Welcome to ... THE Club If this brings back good memories, send us some of your own. Welcome to ... FALL 2023 BUYERS AND SELLERS - Have my 47 years of experience work for you! “I still like to talk to people, like the good old days.” Ask your friends about me! Mario Moscone, Sales Representative Do you want copies of... They’re T FREE for people 55+! Welcome to ... THE CLUB For a group, apartment building, or meeting? Call 519-491-1676 or email info@welcometotheclub.ca I shouldn’t have been surprised that it happened. After all, it was a perfectly natural thing to occur. I probably should be more surprised that it hadn’t happened earlier. I moved to the country after I married and that, I have learned, has its own particular learning curve. Although I’ve been living here for more than 15 years, the curve seems to be never-ending. This particular thing happened in the fall, not the spring as I would have expected. My husband and I had been chasing off a stray cat for a week or so, although stray cats aren’t anything new or surprising— our home is surrounded by dairy farms and barns. The surprise came when I was weeding the front flower bed. I like to garden, but I am a novice, so when I noticed the lilies were tipped over at an unusual angle I thought that’s what was supposed to Kitten Conundrum By Cindy Cade, Mitchell • from Daytripping Sept-Oct 2019 happen in the fall. I got a little closer to see if I could stand the flowers up a little straighter and surprise! There were five teeny, tiny, furry kittens nestled in at the base of the plants. No more chasing off the stray cat! Mama had set up her nursery in my front flower bed. Although I am not a “cat person,” I found that as the days grew shorter my interest in the litter grew. “They started mewing today,” I proudly announced to my husband. (He grew up on a farm and litters of cute kittens had ceased to amaze him when he was about six years old). It seemed my husband wasn’t particularly interested in their progress. I became a little possessive of the brood in the flower bed. I would check on them day and night, peeking out to make sure that all five furry, little balls of fluff were still there. A few days later the kittens were mobile—mobile enough to explore the flower bed and play fight with each other. The mewing was louder, so loud that I could hear them through the living room wall. I started giving progress reports to my family and friends; this was usually met with eye rolls and shrugs. When I started coming up with cute names for them, my husband just shook his head and walked away. The miniscule concern he had shown a few weeks earlier had completely evaporated. Inevitably the kittens will grow big enough to move out of the flower bed and find a new home; probably in one of the big dairy barns down the road. It’s possible that one or two of them will stick around the “old homestead.” I’m sure they will set off before the weather turns cold and snow is in the air. That will be my signal to hunker down for the winter and wait for whatever curve ball Mother Nature is going to throw my way in the spring. Promote your business or events in ... Welcome to ... THE CLUB P A G E 36 THANK YOU to all the wonderful, local businesses that have made this free magazine possible! Mark Moran 519-491-1676 info@welcometotheclub.ca Carla MacGregor 519-464-3230 carla@welcometotheclub.ca For Lambton Shores area advertising, contact Rhonda Long 519-657-1869 • rhonda@welcometotheclub.ca Superstitions... To break a mirror brings 7 years of bad luck, unless you bury the pieces.
Let’s grow old together. You go first. providing a sense of endurance mixed with a welcome salutary air. Can you The picture a doorman outfitted in a neat tunic, swinging a heavy door open as Retirement you saunter inside? Coach © by Mike Keenan Another advantage attributed to http://theretirementcoach.libsyn.com/ age is that others do not expect you to change your views on anything. They forgo long, philosophical explanations why you should support The Advantages the coalition government or why you should become a vegetarian, given the of Aging beneficial consequences. Instead, they There are distinct advantages to say something disdainfully dismal like, Listen to Mike’s podcasts (humour, travel and poetry) at: The Retirement Coach: age. http://theretirementcoach.libsyn.com/ For example, whenever His there book, ‘Don’t is Ever “I guess Quit - a you’re Journal of too Coping old to change your a with disaster Crisis & at Nourishing sea, the Spirit,’ older is available folks in are print & electronic ways.” format Of course, at Amazon: this, is a big mistake. https://amzn.to/2KBdPWQ allowed off the ship first. I’ve never We constantly change our ways because understood this principle. It seems that we can’t remember what we used to younger people have much more to live believe in the first place. That’s why for than those who have been around we chronically tell the same awful joke the block a few times. Only pregnant over and over again usually beginning women merit easier egress than those with this trite phrase, “Stop me if I’ve of us who are in the state of advanced told you this one before…” then we maturity. gleefully launch into five minutes of Another advantage involves the torture for each listener. issue of pressure to get things done I should note that I’ve discovered in a hurry. For example, I notice that dramatic changes in the bedroom as I aging affects driving habits. Seniors age. For example, no longer do I have never seem to be in a hurry; they’ve to read a book to fall asleep. I can fall rushed all of their lives, and now it’s asleep in all manner of places: on the time to play the tortoise instead of the couch in front of the TV, in an armchair hare. Hence, we stop even at green equipped with a comfortable stool for lights to look around and survey the my feet, in the car, at church, while countryside as well as red ones, and we shopping, at a red light… virtually pay little attention to amber which, like anywhere. In addition, I have noticed us, seems quite unable to make up its that our budget for items such as mind. Do I want to be red or do I want shampoo and tooth paste has been to be green? We seem happy to merely greatly reduced over the years allowing be there in the car, a Zen-like simplicity, us to stockpile other items like bran as don’t you think? a substitute. Some people waste hundreds of And unlike the heady times when dollars trying to cultivate this blissful we had children, nowadays, there are state by attending yoga sessions and neither dead goldfish to flush down performing all sorts of uncomfortable the toilet nor gerbils to bury in the asanas like the drooping dog pose, backyard after short but appropriate the wounded warrior pose and the funeral services. Also, I no longer trembling tree pose. All we seniors have fear quick-sand, poison ivy, floods to do is sit in our car, and a wonderful and avalanches. I eat the last piece calming tranquility envelopes us. I call of anything without guilt or remorse this the sitting-in-your-car pose. It might and occasionally sample items in the not translate well for other drivers on bulk food store when I think nobody the road, but who cares? That’s what is watching. I regard these items as the fast lane is for. samples. Another issue involves accumulation. Nowadays, I get reduced rates for My spouse insists that I get rid of some travel and movies, and I thoroughly of my prized possessions. I think that impress children with exotic tales of I might donate my skates and Detroit black and white TV’s when the world Red Wing hockey pants to the Hockey was colourless yet easier to evaluate in Hall of Fame. My tennis racket has terms of good and evil. I always get a Smithsonian written all over it, and my seat on the bus and I quickly correct hockey sticks have curves that would others’ mistakes without constraint or make Bobby Hull proud. It’s hard to any fear of retaliation. jettison these items, but if they go to To conclude my thoughts on the a nice place where others appreciate advantages of aging, you probably think them, that will make me feel better, that I am going to finish by waxing particularly if I acquire a healthy tax eloquently with clever references to receipt in the process. After all, when sumptuous cheese and wine, implying you are on a fixed income, you must that age is essential to promote richness become economically inventive. in life. Instead, I will tell you a joke. Oddly, some of us are even older Now, stop me if you have heard me tell than buildings. Katherine Hepburn said you this one before… that if you survive long enough, you Listen to Mike’s podcasts (humour, are revered like an old building. What travel and poetry) at: The Retirement part of the building would you most Coach: http://theretirementcoach.libsyn. like to associate with? Old buildings com/ His book, ‘Don’t Ever Quit - a Journal tend to possess lovely wooden doors of Coping with Crisis & Nourishing Spirit,’ with brass handles, exhibiting a unique is available in print & electronic format combination of firmness and style, at Amazon: https://amzn.to/2KBdPWQ Welcome to ... Come In & Eat With Us! THE Club For over 20 years, we have had the pleasure of serving you, our family & friends. Here at Big Fish, you are a part of our family & we can’t wait to share a drink, our love of food od & laughs with you. See you soon, on, Alex, Stacey & Gus For Lunch, Dinner or a Special Occasion Make Reservaons at Sarnia’s Finest 1717 LONDON LINE, SARNIA I 519-542-5553 BIGFISHLOUNGE.COM FALL 2023 Superstitions... It’s bad luck to leave shoes upside down. P A G E 37
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