November 29 2014
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| Jammin with Mark |
I had the day off today. Day off from thinking that is. I didn't need to because the lovely Lisa had already thunk it all for me!
I finally had a decent night's sleep. I'm pretty sure I passed the kidney stone, but sometimes they just stop moving. I choose to believe that I'm done with it! For now.
At 9:00 a.m. I was awoken by the lovely Lisa, who informed me that we had to leave in an hour. "Leave for where?" I asked quizzically."We are having dim sum with Jody." she said with that tone that says, you never listen to me.
"I thought you said that was at 11:30?" I said looking for a way out.
"It is" she said as she walked away. This is my fault. The lovely Lisa is correct. I never listen to her!
This is what happens. After a few years, your spouse's voice becomes like the radio. It's on in the background but you don't really hear it until there's a plane crash or something. By then it's too late.
By the time I finished my morning rituals it was 9:30. I poured myself a cup of drippy Joe still trying to figure out why we were giving ourselves two hours to make the twenty minute drive to Dim Sum. I could just ask, but that won't change anything. I wasn't halfway through my first cup of drippy Joe when Lisa was standing coat on at the door.
"Take the dogs out to the backyard and let's go." she said. When the dogs were back in the house, the doors were locked and I was sitting in the car beside the lovely Lisa I said " What's the panic?"
"We have to make a stop first. The garage sale at Dunwood Place starts today at 10 a.m. I told Gord and Penny that we would both be there." It was all coming back to me. Damn radio!
We have gotten quite a bit of snow last night up here at the top of Blue Mountain.
The main roads were all plowed and clear. The side roads were packed and icy. So of course that's the way the lovely Lisa decided to go.
Traffic was light as we made our way to New Westminster.
When we got to Dunwood Place someone was just leaving and we ended up with Mercedes parking. Right in front of the doors. Its a seniors building so we ended up having to buzz three times before the senior could figure out how to let us in. It was quite the setup. There were about a dozen tables plus a food concession selling hotdogs and chicken soup, how's that for a combination? And of course a two table Old lady bake sale. I took a look around at the stuff that was for sale and then went and sat with Gord by the cash box. We talked about last night's Canucks game and tomorrows Grey Cup. Stupid lions! Forty-five minutes later, with two bags of other people's junk, the lovely Lisa and I made our escape. We had forty five minutes to make our way from New Westminster to Kingsway at Commercial. There is a Dim Sum restaurant there called Dai Tung that we used to frequent when Jody lived here. We were the first to arrive and we got a table right away, which is quite unusual. Ten minutes later Jody arrived with her fourteen year old daughter Alannah.
Alannah is another one of those kids that I have known their entire lives. Makes you feel old! We were still waiting for our friend Christine and Jody's mother to join us. Jody assumed that we would be waiting in line and had told them to arrive around 12:15. We didn't wait to order.
They no longer come around with the steam carts.You fill out a paper menu like a bingo card. Then you wait, and wait. I prefer the steam carts. Instant gratification! Christine arrived and then Jody's Mother a lot of catching up to do. It was 1:45 when we finally finished lunch. Jody and Alannah made a beeline for the ferry to Victoria. We said our goodbyes and headed home.
I was looking forward to getting home and finishing with the outside lights. The lovely Lisa got a text from John the chef that she works with. Could you please pick up some hard shell tacos and some corn tortillas? We were now going from central Vancouver to Port Coquitlam. There are not many places in Vancouver that sell corn tortillas. Seeing as we were halfway home, there is a Latino deli in PoCo that does. It was pushing 5:00 by the time we got home. We were going to a Glasgow Rangers Supporters Club fundraiser at 6:30 and we were going to stop and see Mama Lee on the way.
Most of the things that the lovely Lisa had bought it the garage sale where for Mama Lee. Some old religious Christmas cards a Christmas banner and some little festive knick knacks.
Since we had a few minutes before we had to leave for the fundraiser the lovely Lisa decided that the clown hair had to go.
So here you are. Step by step.
How to skin a Squatch
We got to the Rangers dinner just after seven o'clock. They had started food service at 6:30 and as usual, we were late. The last time we went to one of these things we were so late, we missed the dinner entirely. When we got there they were cleaning up.
As it was we were there just in time to not have a table to sit at.
That's okay big Wally and his wonderful lady Kathy walked in the door with us. They made us a table in the corner and the four of us sat and ate while everyone else stared at us. It's a really good crowd of people, all Scottish. There are people there that the lovely Lisa avoids. Not because she doesn't like them but because after a couple of pints their Glasgow accent renders them incomprehensible to any other English speaking person.
They do a 50/50 draw and a fundraiser called the Toonie toss
they place a bottle of Black Grouse Scotch on the dance floor
and from 30 feet away you throw Toonies trying to hit the bottle.
Hit the bottle you win the bottle. Not as easy as it sounds. First of all trying to get a Toonie out of a Scotsman is like trying to pull the teeth out of a crocodile. Some of these guys have pant pockets that reach down to their socks!
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| Colin |
That is till the Guinness kicks in! It was a fun night for a good cause.
We left just after 10 o'clock to go to our friend Daryl's house for a jam. I spent most of the evening at Daryl's upstairs, where they do an acoustic jam. But that's because I was too lazy to carry my amp into the house. Upstairs we had mandolin, violin, guitar, harmonica and a couple of very talented lady singers.
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| With Mark and George |
The lovely Lisa was exhausted from her crazy itinerary and ditched me about 11:45. She was all in and I still had the music in me! The lovely Lisa arranged for me to catch a ride with Mark and Lea. They drive right past our house on the way home.
We plugged in down stairs and jammed until just after 1 a.m.
We packed all the gear in to Mark and Lea's vehicle and got off the side streets as quickly as we could.They were an ice rink. The main roads were fine and I was home in five minutes.
The lovely Lisa was already asleep when I got home surrounded by two little rat dogs.
I tucked the lovely Lisa in, kissed her on the forehead and dragged the Rat dogs out into the cold. I sat down and started to write this blog. I managed about a paragraph and a half and then went to bed!
That's all I've got
Till next time
Peace out Y'all
©2014 Dave Squatch Ward
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