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  1. i agree, he will always be a favourite in our hearts but i think there are others that deserve to go in to it first. i may be wrong but that is how i feel. trouble is so many fans don’t know how many others were fan favourites in other eras. if the ring was just for fan favourites, there wouldn’t be a big enough ring for them all. in gino’s defense, snepts was a fan favourite and i believe he is there. what do i know? i’ld love to see tanti there.
  2. when i worked with young offenders, we had them fill out question airs before they left. we wanted to know if we had helped them at all. one of the questions we asked was, was the staff helpful? this one young man had came to us with so much hate for adults and for all those in authority, wrote that i was like his grandfather. i thought, i’m even old enough to be his grandfather. in another part of the report, he said, his grandfather was the most important person in his life. grampa’s are so important in our lives. i never knew mine, but did get to meet a grandmother, 2 weeks before she died. they lived in lac la biche alberta. actually she was in edmonton before she passed. i’m a grampa now but don’t know how important i am in my grandson’s life. i hope i am he is 26 now.
  3. how is your wife now? how are you now? please forgive yourself.
  4. we often hold hurt and pain inside us for years. but how good does it feel to let go the hurt by speaking it out loud? we could even help others by lending our ears to their hurts.
  5. yes on a lighter note, i’ll re-tell a story i told on here a couple of years ago. when i worked with mentally challenged adults, i took 5 of them to town to get hair cuts. the shop was very busy and one young girl was given to cut all my group’s hair. jim was the last to get his hair cut. the girl finish off by using the blow dryer on his hair. he said, is this the famous blow job, i’ve heard so much about? for 30 seconds you could hear a pin drop in that crowded shop. i uncomfortly i moved my crew out of there. out of the mouths of babes.
  6. i never knew my dad but met him once when i was 16 for 15 minutes. i wanted to hug him but he didn’t seem to think of me as anything else but a stranger. he disappeared after that and no one saw him again. my sister kept looking for him and eventually it was found that a john doe was found died in skid row in los angeles in 1961 was my dad. he had lived in the streets for 6 years. how lonely and degrading it must have been to finish your life with no one to love you or care about. i told deb this story once. i use to help homeless people here and one old native man especially. in my mind he became my father’s memory.
  7. hope you and deb, share some more snippets. i’ld love to read them.
  8. i’m glad you did. i’ve some of the same feeling. your not alone.
  9. when they gave my wife, no more than six months to live, her wish was to die at home. my mother in law said if i wanted to put her in a home she’ld understand. i said are you crazy, she is my wife and i’m going to look after her. never regretted it. my hardest moment was when she begged me to end it all. i couldn’t. on another occasion she said in a joyous tone, oh look. i looked where she was looking but saw nothing. when i looked back at her she was sleeping or just lying there with her eyes closed. a moment of blessing came when a couple came and related this story. their daughter had given birth to a daughter, but was bleeding in side her. they rushed her from smithers to terrace. the parents were in the ambulance wiith her. she died but the attendant used the paddles and brought her back. she asked them, where is my husband? they said he was in a car following, she said, no he isn’t, i was just back there. then she died again and again the attendant brought her back. she asked her parents, where was she just at? they replied they didn’t know. she said it is was so beautiful and restful there, she didn’t want to leave. then she died again but he couldn’t bring her back. by the way, my wife only lasted 3 weeks.
  10. your not a fool, i’ve had visions too and nurses at care facilities tell stories of strange things happening when people in their care, pass. i feel how painful it was, but forgive yourself. i’m sure your mom has. thanks for sharing boud.
  11. thank you and i believe they are. i’ll find out some day. take care of yourself lad. may your life be long. healthy and happy.
  12. one thing i’ve leaned through this, is there is a lot of compassion here on cdc. my main purpose of this thread was to get to know stories people have that their either happy or sad about. people say they like hearing my stories, i’m just as eager to hear other’s stories. our lives are but little snippets of our lives. some will say, i don’t have stories to tell, but i disagree. some stories we would never tell and that is alright. i’ve told stories of, my childhood, baseball, playing and coaching, my navy days, my wife and family, different jobs i’ve have and thoughts and feelings i’ve had. i could write a book on all my short comings but i won’t. i’ll spare you all of that. my personal wish is that when someone dies and your trying to, console someone grieving , just be with the let them talk about what their going through. it is what we call, walking along side. thanks for showing your compassion, lads and lassies.
  13. i hope your dad pulls through deb, i know he’s had health problems before. he knows, you’ve always been there for him. my prayers go out for him and you. keep on trucking , good lady.
  14. i don’t know how long i’ll be around, none of us do, but i’m happy and content. cheers lad.
  15. that must have been hard for you. when my wife died, everyone was trying to ease my pain and heal me, while all i wanted was validation. my sister went on for an hour telling how she coped, losing her husband. i wanted to tell her to shut up but i knew she was doing what she thought would help. i learned that day that i should just be there with people when they greave, walk along side them, maybe not even saying a word. i guess we have to go through things, before we learn. good to hear from you big casino.
  16. i’m fine for my age. thanks for the concern. i’m not going senile, i don’t think.
  17. they did and told them but i doesn’t seem to be the same.
  18. my friend in south carolina said they went shopping and spent almost a thousand dollars, because they are talking about closing grocery stores down. she hasn’t said why yet but i’m assuming it because of covid.

  19. had moments in your life that you would love to go back to, and do differently? my brother never phoned me, but one day he did. i wasn’t home but he talked to my life. he just asked how we were doing. he told her that i didn’t have to phone him if i didn’t want to. he just said he wanted to know we were alright. well i didn’t phone him back and two weeks later, he was dead. my wife was on her death bed and i promised her i wouldn’t let go of her hand till it was over. she started throwing up out her nose, so i pried my hand from hers and went and got some-Q tips. when i took her hand again, it was limp and cold. she started her heavy breathing and died. it should have kept my promise. anyone had moments, they’ld like to redo?
  20. can you imagine our line up that has lind, pods, hogs, macewen and maybe hawrluk on it? what could that line up look like? millsey, petey, boes, bo,hog, pod, motte, gaud, hawr, mac, huggy, juol, schmidt, raffy, rath, woo, chatty and demko? my mouth is watering. maybe a couple of physical guys too.
  21. what is a penny worth? not much anymore but when i was a kid in the 40’s you could buy 10 jawbreakers for a penny. i use to wonder how much those 10 jawbreakers cost the seller. we could go to the show, buy popcorn and a coke for 35 cents. a different time, yes, but where will the spiral going up, stop? they use to say, a penny saved is a penny earned, what would we say today?
  22. welcome to the silly season.

    1. Ghostsof1915

      Ghostsof1915

      Wait, isn't that in mid-summer?

    2. smithers joe

      smithers joe

      we’re getting two. 

       

  23. what does cotton eyed mean. was it about an slave gathering cotton? that would have been back breaking work. it reminds me of stompin tom’s song about a summer gathering tobacco leaves in tillsonberg. he says my back still aches when i hear those words.
  24. elaborate lad. how did i hinder you? my appologies anyway. did i take your job too?
  25. i had many stories about coaching baseball and hockey but my favourite season was when i left coaching in newton to coach in north delta where i lived. i left 2 champion winning years to my favourite one, i remember they had try outs and a draft. i couldn’t be there for either. i asked the president to pick a team for me. they must have forgot because of the team i got only one boy that had played any ball. for a third of the season, we were getting beat badly every game. then there was a period when we lost but by big scores. finally the boys started to win. we beat every team in the 6 team league. we ended up 4th out of 6 teams. i was so proud of those boys. i always believed that baseball taught them about life as much as about the game. the following year i inherited another team of older boys and we blew everyone away.
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