Tomorrow We Say Goodbye To A Friend,


I sit here tonight in a surreal mood. Something that feels like I have just been on a creepy amusement park ride, and I am waiting in line for another weird thrill. It is sad and scared and lost all at the same time.

It isn't that often a person has to say the next words about one of their friends, at our age.....anyway.....but.......

On Monday night one of our friends died suddenly and tragically. The shock of the news on Tuesday morning was enough to make our hearts stop.

Our friend Paul Bruton was the husband of my friend Norma. In late 2005 or early 2006 Norma and I became fast friends as we worked on our recoveries from neurological injury. Paul and Norma and Carl and I have hung out ever since. (well as much as Norma and I have been able to hang out anyhow).

It was because of Norma's yarn shop that I recovered as well as I did. Knitting was part of my physical therapy and rehabilitation, and I spent many many days at the shop.

Paul was an Ontario Yarn rep, so most every yarn shop in Ontario has had him pass through their front door. He really knew his fibre!

Paul was a very nice guy. I know that all the yarn people I know thought the world of him, and I know Norma really counted on him a lot these last years as she has not been so well. Norma would always joke that she really needed him around cuz she can't cook to save her life, but I know it was more than that. He treated her Mom like a queen and really respected her friends, and was easy to get along with. I think he helped her balance most of the time.

I know what that is like. Cuz I tend to be all over the place and Carl pulls me back to reality when my mind swoops me into the obcessive weirdness of my artsyism where time stands still and my world is caught up in my imagination.

Carl and I have been stuck in a rut all week. Feeling quiet and dull while thinking about Paul. It is hard to believe I won't watch him walk into the shop with his ear-to-ear smile and a story. It is hard to believe we won't go over to the house and sit around the kitchen table for hours gabbing about nothing in particular........

One of our buddies is gone.

You don't really prepare yourself for the death of a friend. It is just a little too close to the home age where we all have to think about it but never really want to....Reminding us that we have to live for the now and not keep putting off stuff with excuses of next time or next year, or next week.

So with this promise to Paul before we say goodbye tomorrow....that we will live for NOW....and no longer wait...

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Oh A Full Long Weekend!


Thursday was my Birthday, but we didn't really do the Birthday celebrations until Saturday.
Saturday morning Carl drove to Peterborough to get Alex, Amber and Kitty Candy!
On Saturday afternoon we had the family and the Lyons here for a BBQ.
We had chicken teriaki, salad, veggies and dip, and cherries.

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Pamela and Gary Lyon

Alex Lyon

Al and Amber

Cheryl, Gary, Cam, Amber and Al (Pamela is hidden)

My Dad Rich, Carl, and Cam

My Cake
It is a no carb cake with Nutriwhip and fresh rasberries on top
The cake is orange cranberry
It was yummy!

Me gettin ready to BLOW!

This is voted the ugliest photo ever, but I had to promise to post it on the blog.
Al took it and shocked himself. Haha!

Cam, Al, My Mom Sandra, Me

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Canada Day! July 1st.
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Canada Day Fireworks!
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On July 2nd Carl left to be stationed at CFB Petawawa for a month.
He is taking the DP1 course
This is 6AM

Cam and Al dragged themselves outta bed to see Dad off.

I had to take Carl to the Denison Armories which is located in North Toronto,
on the site of the old Downsview Airforce base.
At Denison they catch the bus for the 7hr ride to CFB Petawawa

Getting in ranks for inspection and bus loading prep

These guys leaving on course are 17-50 years of age.
Guess who the 50 yr old is!

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Kitty Candy had her birthday on June 30th.
So she is no longer a kitten.
This was her first visit to our place.
She had a blast with stairs and carpet, and the big window
that shows more than a parking lot

Click on the photo to see the slideshow

Tomorrow will be video day!
Please return to see the fireworks video, the Canada day on Main Street video, the Candy video,and the Scottish Tattoo Video

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Photos of Carl's Birthday, and some words on Slow Food
I hope you enjoy our Convivia!


RennyBa Has Inspired Me To Write About My Slow Food



If you have been following along, you know I am on a Metablolic Diet. This is a prescribed medical program to aid in the final part of my recovery from an Aquired Brain Injury.
I am enhancing this program with Holistic Nutrician and Hypnotherapy.

This all goes together to set my mind on wellness, to enhance my body systems that were slowed down due to the physical stress the injury caused me.
One cannot escape being medicated for the symptoms of the injury, so it is important to eat a nutritious meal 6 times a day. Two of those meals must be quite large, and be of the highest quality food.

North Americans' diets usually consist of extremely over processed and genetically manipulated foods.

The metabolic diet consists of grains that are not processed chemically, nor are genetically altered. This mean regular flour, sugar, and non-live dairy products are to be avoided, and gluten is kept at a minimum.
Food needs to be considered valuable to the body system as a whole.
Vegetables that can absorb the most free radicals from the soil are avoided. So no vegetable that grows below the ground.

Meat should be lean and organically fed.

As today progresses I will show the food for today's BBQ.
For Carl's 50th celebration I am marinating chicken breast, and pork chops in a hand made tariaki liquid. I am marinading steak in a home made BBQ sauce marinade. The fish is zested with lemon.

There are raw vegetables and tzaziki dip, and a deep green leafy salad.

And a huge bowl of cherries for chatting over.

The only bad boy on the menu is the Birthday Cake. It is partially slow, for it has custard cream in it. (but I did not bake it so the flour is probably regular white pastry flower. And really don't know if I will try any)

For the steadfast Canadians there will be baked potatoes. (I won't be having any, because they are from below the ground)

Papa's Pics of Carl's Birthday Dinner

Mom

Ann and Cliff

Gary, Alex and Cam

Cam

Charlotte and Terry Arrive

Good Food!

Shrimp on a Cedar Plank, Baked Russett Potatoe, Pork Chops and Steak

Ann Cowie, Cam, Carl, Al, Mom, Me, Cheryl(hidden), Alex(hidden a bit), Gary, Terry, Charlotte

Carl, Al, Mom, and Me
(I am two sizes smaller even if you can't tell. That outfit is from my yr2000 collection)

Gettin' Ready to Blow!

Al and Carl

Cliff, Ann, Cam

Cake!

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Our Pics of Carl's 50th Birthday Dinner! Ummmm Slow Food and Friends!

Cam models booties for RheLynn

Dad(Richard Lundy), Mom (Sandra Lundy), Charlotte Hemington, Cliff Lalonde, (Gary and Terry are a bit hidden)

Alex Lyon, Carl (in background), Cheryl Lyon, Cam, Al

BBQ

Baked Russet Potatoes, Pork Chops, Chicken Breast, Salmon Shrimp and Scallops cooked on a cedar plank, and Steak

Out comes the China Plates! Slow food has no paper plates!

Sittin' on our new fancy bench that pulls out like an accordion to set up

Gathered at the table

Ummm Food!

Carl

(Upp I am looking very puffy and tired! Having fun is hard work!)

Carl

Al and Me (Lynn)

Al brings out the Cake

Carl (The Birthday Boy!)

Blowin' out the candles

Ann and Carl

Happy 50th Birthday Carl

Cliff, Carl, and Al

Gary, Terry, Charlotte, Cliff, Al and Carl
Cutting the Cake

Alex Lyon, Gary Lyon, Terry Copps, Cliff Lalonde, Ann Cowie, Al

Cam, Carl and Dad

Mom

Cam and Carl

Alex Lyon, Terry and Cheryl, Cliff and Ann, Al

Carl and Dad (Richard Lundy)

Mom(Sandra Lundy)

Cheryl Lyon

Al, Cam and Carl

Alex Lyon, Gary Lyon, Terry Copps, Charlotte Hemington, Cliff Lalond

Bachman Cummings CD. Compilation of Their favourite songs performed by Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings

DVD's and a gift certificate from Lynn

Steve Wozniak's Biography, "IWoz" from Gary, Cheryl, Alex and Pamela

Hunt For Red October movie
from Al

Birch Bark Canoes with Animal Totems on them from Cliff and Ann

Plus Rum from Cliff and Ann

A Shirt From Tere Altuna

Carl's Birthday Haul

A Little Dinner Talk- try looking at it-it is awaiting YouTube approval





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Thanks for Looking at Everything

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