Christmas time
I just started to write this blog post and stopped in mid sentance then hit the delete key. I was going to start off saying 45 years ago Christmas time was different. The 45 year thing stopped me dead in my tracks. Wow, oh well on with the blog. I certainly have memories of Christmas but also of the time leading up to and around that special date. Back in the 50's my dad purchased two properties comprising about 400 acres in and near Sundridge Ontario. As a teenager that was the middle of nowhere and at least a 5 hour boring drive from Oakville. No tv, no radio, except WABC on the skip in the summer time. That said, I do have some fond memories of going to Sundridge with friends such as Gary Welna and John Nash. I have posted on Facebook some pictures of Welna and I swimming at Starvation Lake (great name eh!) and going through a sugar bush in the spring. My father, ever the entrepenuer, grew Christmas trees on one of the farms. Each N...