The Traveling Scarf Meets A New Friend

As I was mentioning last night sisters, the traveling scarf of many colours has met a new Canadian made-friend.
This fluffy white scarf has a story behind it.
Every Saturday morning, Bernie and I travel to the small town of Port Colborne to have our breakfast at Macdonalds.
We had befriended there an elderly couple.
Now, as I have already told you that even on the coldest of days I never wear a scarf.
Well the dear elderly lady took pity on me.
One Saturday when Bernie and I arrived at the Macs, the lady gave me a package and there wrapped up inside was this pretty white warm scarf that the dear lady had knitted just for me!
Well the two of these scarves became friends at first sight!
And so we took them both along to spend the day together with Bernie and I.


We each took our cameras along and it didn't take that Bernie long to start snapping pictures!


If it hadn't of been so cold, I am sure that we would have all enjoyed picnic on the rocks, but it sure was not balmy!
For sure and it was down right freezing!


Here, the two scarves are attempting to warm me up!


Oh poor Bernie!
I do hope that Jada Gigi appreciates what we are doing for her!
Shivering beside the lake we are!
Can you see the large boat behind Bernie, that has anchored for the winter?


NOT a pretty sight!



Brrr!
The only reason we came to the water front was to take some snow pictures for Jada Gigi.
We wanted to take a picture too of the lighthouse out over the water, but can you believe it?
Just like the hymn says, "They have torn the old lighthouse down!"
What a shame!


Here I sit like a lady of liesure, wearing two scarves and a hat!


Four friends..Multi-colored sister hood traveling scarf, fluffy white Canadian-made scarf, little red car and one crazy Canadian lady!


Having a real ball!
The scarf of many colours is unlearning to say "huh"? and learning to say "eh?" with the best of us!


Four friends...ditto..ditto..ditto..and one crazy Canadian man having more fun than he has had in years!


It was our turn to clean the Gospel Hall, so we left Port Colborne and the little red car took us back to Welland.
As you can see here, we left the fluffy white behind because we wanted to spend some qualty time with the multi-coloured!

The good scripture verses here on each side of me were made with quality steel from one of our local factories.
One of the bosses over there, one day, asked Grampa Yade if he could use some steel and of course Grampa Yade accepted it with many thanks!


HERE'S Bernie, walking around, as proud as a peacock with our new friend draped over his shoulders!


And here he is, making sure that any loosed yarn is put back into place, loosed I must admit by his careless wife!
In our almost 37 years of marriage, Bernie has always been a Felix and alas...I hsve
always been an Oscar!
For better or worse though, eh?


Yep!
Not a thread out of place!
I take Bernie's picture!


Inside the hall, Bernie put on the camera timer.
We are standing on the spot where 37 years ago, almost that we were married.
My but how the time has flown!
Wish we had of known all the sisters and the multi-coloured scarf back then!
They would have all been invited to the wedding!
Even that Idaho Snow Queen!


We got the hall ready for the breaking of bread rememberance meeting.
The table in the middle doesn't usually have Bibles on it, just the loaf of bread and the cup of wine, but Bernie placed these precious books here so we could take a picture for you.
One is an Englsh Bible and the other one is a Spanish Bible.
We have about twelve Spanish people in fellowship and they are the dearest people!


Bernie took a closer picture of the Bibles.


I think of Arlene so many, many times!
Even when she was so sick, she would visit my blog and tell me that she was still praying for Dad Golden.
We, all of us, loved her SO much that I thought it only fitting that she deserved this honour of the beloved sisterhood scarf placed here on this, her most favourite verse
I love you my precious sisters...Love Terry

The Adventure Begins!

When I received this precious piece of mail from Julie, I wanted to take a nice picture of it, so I promptly pulled the ruby red musical magic carpet from under the cat, and he promptly told ME that he was not going to have anything to do with that multi-colored scarf and that means,no wrapping it around him for "no dumb pictures" either!
We will see about that tomorrow.
That Shopping News is always getting his nose bent out of joint!



When Bernie returned home from work, the little red car immediately demanded that he take a picture, so I got beside it with that lovely scarf wrapped around my neck.
That little red car of mine is always game for a photo shoot!


Mrs Mac, as you can see there is harldy a spot of snow and it is rather warm, so here I am just wearing a sweater.
A sweater that is decorated by that pretty scarf.


Little Madeline has the scarf wrapped around her head and I have surrounded her and my laptop with it again!



Time for a little shopping and the scarf wanted to see what the Canadian grocery stores are like.
We had fruit and Aunt Jemima syrup to pick up and we were also going to have a quick coffee at "Zhers" grocery store.



I carry the letters from the sisters in my purse and as we were having coffee, I decided to read them.
Bad idea!
I was overcome with tears as I read the moving words from my sisters, Mrs. Mac, Margie, Trish, Cheryl, Connie, Sara, Deb, Miss Patty, and Julie.
They are such good letters!
I hope Mrs. Mac, that at the end of the scarf's journey, you will let us see the letters that will be written by Rebbecca, Donna, Kell, Char, and Felisol.


This picture shows you just how happy I am with my visitor.

Bernie's turn to wear the scarf and have his mug shot taken.
The people around in the immediate area think that we are crazy but that has never bothered us any!


Bernie reads the letters and he is really pleased.
He is looking for ones written by Donna and Felisol, but all in good time,eh?


These children are my Sunday school passengers. The little red car picks them up for Sunday School each week.
They have been coming to Gospel meeting each night.
They sit in the front row every night where they can hear the good news that they are tbe sinners that the Lord Jesus died for.
The three little girls are sisters and their Dad is Muslim but he doesn't object to them coming out to the meetings.
Perhaps he will read the Sunday School papers and the Gospel plaques which the children bring home every Sunday and he will discover Jesus the one who died for HIM too.
It would truly be a miracle!



This is my friend Janice and me.
Janice teaches the three and four year olds in Sunday School.
I used to teach that small class.
One of her boys who I had when he was three years old has been married now for two years.
Her other son who I also taught will be getting married this coming Good Friday.
I feel so old but this scarf has brought new life into my bones and Bernie and I are really going to have some fun with it!
Tomorrow we will take it out to see the bridges that we have in the area.
Well good night for now dear sisters and HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!....Love Terry

The Sisterhood Scarf Still In Canada, Eh?

Yes it is the truth!
Today I received this beautiful multi-colored scarf with open arms!
Bernie and I have already ventured out with it and the camera.
Tonight it will accompany us to the special Gospel meetings.Everybody will be saying, "What?...Terry has finally learned to wear a scarf in the cold weather? Getting after her all of these years to dress up warmer has finally sunk in!"
Ha!
It is hard to teach an old dog new tricks ,eh?
Well for a few days this old dog will be dressing really warm!
Thanks Mrs. Mac for this great idea.
I will post tomorrow about how we started the journey......
In the mean time feast your eyes a little longer on this pretty little girl on the computer screen!
Love Terry

Check Your Mailboxes...

I'm surprised that the next lucky sister has not received the scarf yet. I believe she should have had it by now. Although...sometimes the Canadian postal system is not that great (believe me...I could tell you many stories about how terrible they are!).

I don't want to give away the surprise, but let me just say that if the scarf hasn't already arrived, it should arrive this week! So I hope ALL the sisters read this...if you get the scarf, make sure you post on here to let us know it arrived safely!!!

Where's Our Scarf?

I'm just wondering if anyone has a package sitting in their mailbox yet. Any day now our scarf should be in a new home to take on a new adventure. The suspense is killing me ;)

Finally...Some Scarf Tales...

At long last...here are some of my scarf adventures!

It has been so much fun having the scarf...and since we have some more days of VERY cold temperatures, it's been nice having the scarf to keep me warm! Madeline was very excited to see the scarf because it has two of her favourite colours in it....pink and purple! The picture above is us last Thursday, ready to head out to the bus.

Friday was kind of a boring day for the scarf, as I was at the hospital with Andy. The doctors don't have any idea what he had, they only know what he didn't have. His heart is fine, his arteries are fine, everything is fine. We know though that it was an attack from Satan, because he is trying to stop Andy from doing things that God wants him to do. But...one thing that has come out of this is that Andy is going to pay a little more attention to his diet, and watch what he eats. He was at the Cardiology clinic on Tuesday for a stress test, and again, everything is normal.

I wanted to do some "sight-seeing" with the scarf on Saturday, but between the cold weather and being so tored after Friday, I just didn't have the energy to go out. So this past Tuesday (when the weather was above 0!) Madeline and I took the scarf out.

We headed over to East City here in Peterborough, which is part of the city, but more like a little village in the city. I love it and would love to live in this part of the city. We drove through this tunnel and I bet you don't know what is above the tunnel...

The Peterborough Lift Lock. At first glance it may not look like much, but it's quite an engineering feat. Built in 1904, it is the world's largest hydraulic lift lock.

Here it is looking at it from the front. There are two big boat chambers...during the summer season, one is at the top and one is at the bottom. When boats come, they go into the chamber and I believe the water level is then adjusted a bit, and then they move up or down so that the boats can continue on their way. I've been over the locks while on the local boat cruise, and it really is quite fun.

Rumour has it there is a ghost or two inside the lift lock, as there were some unfortunate deaths that happened during the building of the lift lock. But I won't be going inside any time soon....

Looking the other way, down the river is where people come to skate in the winter. Though not as long a skating rink as on the Rideau Canal in Ottawa, it's still a pretty cool place to come and skate. The last two years it wasn't as cold and not much (if any) skating was done. But this year has been much better for skating and hockey games.

And finally...one last big piece of news that the scarf is able to help me share. Part of the reason I've been so tired (and sick) lately is because we will be having a new addition to our family sometime around August 31!!!! I've been much, much more tired and nauseous than I was when I had Madeline, but that seems to slowly be going away (thank goodness). It was kind of nice timing to have had the scarf now while sharing this news.

I've had fun with the scarf and will be sad to see it go, but I've made so many wonderful friends that in some way the scarf will kind of live forever!

My request has gone in to Mrs. Mac inquiring as to the whereabouts of the next sister to receive the scarf, and I will be mailing it out tomorrow. I wonder where it will be going????

I'm Still Here...

Sorry...I don't seem to be a very good scarf sister...it's been days since I posted, and I've not even posted anything really about the scarf! But...that's not to say that the scarf and I haven't been enjoying our time together!

If you'll bear with me until tomorrow (I have a meeting tonight), I will post pictures, details, and I'll fill you in on Andy. He is feeling fine and he is fine...that's the short version and I'll explain more tomorrow.

I promise that the past few days of scarf silence will be worth it once you see what I've been up to...I only have until Friday and then I must send the scarf on to the next sister. Which reminds me...I need to e-mail Mrs. Mac to find out who the lucky lady will be!

Until tomorrow scarf sisters...