Because of my stories about horse and wagon days and pre- TV days and pre refrigerator days, many people say, just how old are you anyway?

I say I'm old enough to remember when the Fairview Overpass used to be the Fairview underpass.

I'm old enough to remember the dairys delivering milk by horse and wagon, the garbageman was horse and wagon, vegetables delivered by horse and wagon , I must admit the ice man, the coal man and fish man drove trucks.

I remember when women didn't fart.

I remember when you could only buy beer in quart bottles and buy one bottle at a time if you wished.

Who said during the second world war," We will fight them on the land, we will fight them on the sea, we will fight them in the air?" The answer" Sir Winston Churchill.
Who said, when he left the Phillipines, " I shall return!" the answer: Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
Who said . " Holy jumpin', jumpin', jumpin', jumpin', jumpin' jesus, what was that?" The answer is at the beginning of this blog.

One of my first memories is the second Halifax explosion. I was "goin' pottie" at the time, my mother and a friend who boarded with us were in the kitchen. Every window on the north and east sides of our house broke as the Bedford Naval magazine blew up. My mother had been
in the 1917 explosion and had lost three siblings when their house collapsed. She grabbed me off the toilet, with shit running down my leg and ran for the backyard woods. We were evacuated overnight to Timberlea, I believe to an air force site that is today the Timberlea legion. I have vague memories of being on the floor , on my back, looking up at the high ceilings in the building and many, many people around. All the small panes of glass in our front porch were replaced with large windows, the french doors(all glass) were never replaced between the living and dining room, and we had a fireplace that was so damaged,it could never be used again.

This blog is better read if you start at the bottom, it makes more sense to read it in chronilogical order.

My father was stationed in Shelburne , Nova Scotia with the 53rd Coastal Battery, Artillery, all during the second world war. My mother would visit most holidays by train or automobile.
My oldest sister came to visit from B.C. and wanted to visit Shelburne, when we drove into town
she said,"There's the Loyalist Hotel, that's where Elaine and I would stay with mom and dad during the war."
We went into the hotel, Joan said, " It hasn't changed in fifty years, let's go upstairs." Up we went, she said," There , there's room # 1, that's where mom and dad slept, and Elaine and I slept in room # 2."
I said, " Joan, I was concieved in room #1 in this hotel." I later figured out that I was concieved on Easter week-end because I was born just before Christmas day.
Later that day we were walking around Shelburne and I saw a sign that said, Shelburne Geneological Society. We went in and I told them about the hotel incident and asked them if they had any record of my conception, they laughed, I told them they didn't keep very good records back in those days.

I have sisters ten and twelve years older than me. I recently asked them to think, what was the very best Christmas you ever had? Before they could answer, I said, " It was Christmas morning 1941, when my mother brought me home from the hospital !" They said, " Like hell."
I said, " You can't deny it, you had your very own little baby to play with!" I always said I had three mothers!

My mother got me and my older sister,both of us born in December , in to school when we were four years old. Mother said, "When you go to school and anyone asks how old you are, you just say, I'm not sure!"
The first day the school bully approached me, he said,"How old are you?" I said, "I"m not sure."
He repeated,"How old are you?" I repeated, "I'm not sure." He said, " Are you four or are you five? " I said, "I'm not sure." He said,"Are you interested in girls?" I said, "No!" He said, "Your're four!"




The answer: The Mayor of Hiroshima!

The answer : Addadictomy!