Hubby's farm home |
This summer's were no exception. It was wonderful to reconnect with old high school friends in Dalmeny on the July long weekend. The July/August long weekend just past saw us reuniting with hubby's family.
About a hundred of us Nesdolys found our way to the Rosthern arena at some point between July 29th and 31st. We did the usual reunion things—eat, visit, play games, look at pictures, eat, visit the homesteads and the cemeteries, eat some more, then line up in families for mass photo shoots.
One of the 30-somethings had put together a family photo slide show that looped throughout the three days. What fun to see the aunties and uncles—most no longer with us—in their somber 40's wedding poses, then the babies that were us, and the next generation that looked a lot like us, and on and on ...
The barn looks like some of us feel |
The summer kitchen - a deserted hazard |
A visit to Grandpa Tim's farm site impressed on me even more the fact that nothing stays the same. The poor barn there looks like some of us feel. The house is still liveable but hubby said immaculate housekeeper Auntie P. would have a conniption if she saw the current state of it. The summer kitchen is a deserted hazard.
We slogged through shoulder high grass and thistle to get to hubby's old farm home. His workboot from when we visited last ten years ago is still there but now, like too many family members, has lost its partner. The driveway has all but disappeared. It seems everything is getting covered, or stolen, or erased by time.
Farm home - a visit to the past |
The boot has lost its partner |
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2 comments:
Wistful, poignant nostalgia.
Violet, your reunion seems to have been one of those sad happy events (or is it more a happy sad one?). I suspect mostly happy.
Very thought-provoking.
Lovely pics -- as always!
It was very happy but with, as I say, that undercurrent of a sense that 'we will never walk this way again.' Perhaps that was underscored by the fact that one of hubby's cousins, in his 50s, who was so excited about this reunion and active in planning it, died suddenly in May. Seeing his hurting wife and family made it bittersweet.
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