Late Summer '72

There are three pictures on my wall here in the office (as we call it). Top of the three is Kate and Joe in the sandbox. I have only the back of Joe but Kate is looking at the camera and smiling. Joe seems to be playing with a tonka truck. The sand box in case you don't recall is framed from the boards which were used to make the trailer that we didn't take to Cape Breton and then were used as backing for the truck (the one with the elephants and the NS or bust sign) to keep things from bumping against the back door of the truck and making it hard to lift.

Picture no. 2 is me fixing Joe's bicycle...so maybe this is 1973 not 72 two as I said in the title... When did Joe get a bicycle??? Anyway, my recollection is Joe racing down the drive, hitting the water in the puddle at the bottom and flying over the handlebars, landing in the mud. That didn't stop him and he simply got up and rode again.

Picture no. 3 is Joan with her hands on the large wheel of an old carriage which was there when we arrived. Seems to me that it was on the hill down toward the outhouse. All three of the pictures I think were taken by Judy Joa when she and Ted something or other were up for a visit. Don't ask me how we hooked up with Judy Joa because I don't remember that, but she showed up. Any way we returned the favour by staying at her house in Brooklyn sometime later. Remember the burned out houses and the trip to Luchow's and the trip up the Empire state building????