Daytripping Fall 2023

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Monday to Friday 8-5, Saturday 8-3
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Monday:
Something to Crow About
This is a true story about a crow
named “Monday.”
My story starts in a village outside
the town of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia in
May of 1946. I come from a family
of 10, and my sister Amy (16 at the
time) along with her friend, Shirley,
climbed up a tree in their back yard,
took two young crows from their nest
and brought them home to live. It was
on a MONDAY, so this is where our
crow got his name. She put the crow
in a cardboard box and fed it lots of
bread and milk for the first few weeks,
along with a few worms. It wasn’t long
before Monday could fly out of the box
but it enjoyed staying in these new
surroundings. He would not fly with
the other crows around our farm.
Here are a few of the things Monday
would do:
He would take clothes pins from my
mother’s line and down would go the
wash, which my mother was not too
happy. To this day, we never found out
where the crow put those pins.
He could say three words real plain:
Roy, Mom and Hello. We never taught
him these words. By the way, a crow
is one of the most intelligent birds in
our world.
He often went to school with my
siblings and would wait to follow us
home after school.
He would often get real close to my
father for his favourite worms while he
By Roy Allen, Sarnia
was hoeing.
He enjoyed swooping down on our
cats to tease them.
One day he was able to fly in our
open door, and went straight for the
pantry and grabbed a loaf of bread
that was cooling. He got half way out
with it before my mother grabbed the
broom and changed his mind about
the bread!
While my dad was milking the cow,
Monday would often stand in the gutter
and watch, and Dad would give him
the tip of the cow’s tail. He would hold
onto it real tight and would often go up
in the air still holding onto the tail.
He would often mock us when we
called out, “Mom!” and he thought he
was one of the family of Allens.
One of his big mistakes was when
he picked a hole in my older brother’s
1936 Plymouth roof. He wasn’t
too happy when he saw it the next
morning. He told Amy that if he did
it again he would get rid of the crow
(which, unfortunately, is exactly what
happened later).
What I want you to take away from
this story of Monday the Crow is to
get out of your box, flap your wings,
and try some new things in 2024. If
Monday had stayed with the pack, he
would never accomplish what he did
in his short lifetime. So, try something
new this coming year, and then you
will have “something to crow about.”
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County
Tradition...
Our unique
Stoneware
Pottery
made on site
since 1948.
Fall on the Patio
is Magical
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Seating Available
Daily 11 am to 3 pm
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Thanksgiving & Christmas
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8122 Rogers Road South, AYLMER
Just 1 mile West of Aylmer,
1.5 miles South of Hwy. #3 519-773-3435
FALL/WINTER
2023-2024
“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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