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EPISODE 637 KHALID AND WOODY….SERVICE THAT IS HARD TO BELIEVE

Note:  I found this story while doing some searching on my computer .  It happened in 2018.
It will warm your heart and renew your faith in human beings.


EPISODE 637   KHALID AND WOODY…SERVICE THAT IS HARD TO BELIEVE


(COMFORT INN…KANATA,   AUGUST 3, 2018)


alan  skeoch
sept. 5, 2022


Friday  August 3,  2018 was arguable the  busiest day  of the year for Khalid Mohiuddin, the General  Manager
of the  Kanada Comfort Inn.  He had a vIsiting baseball team, a  collection wolfies (weird bunch who  wore wolf  heads and  had fluffy tails), 
a  tour  bus from the
United States and  dozens  of  tourists.  

Marjorie,  Woody  and  I were  just  part of  the throng.  But we became a problem .  Dogs  can  be  a big problem for hotels.  And  I mean big.



This is  Khalid, busy trying  to find places for  everyone in his Ottawa, Ontario Comfort Inn.
          The motel was super busy when we arrived.  And we became a problem immediately
          because of Woody, our Labrador dog who had a mind of his own



“My dog Woody will  not go upstairs fo our  second  floor room.”,said Marjorie to Khalid
“I beg your pardon?”
“Woody will not climb those stairs.”
“Other dogs have done  it … regularly … surely Woody will do do if  he  sees others?”
“Woody has his own mind…his own terrors.”
“Terrors?”
“Yes, Khalid, our dog sees the stairs differently.”
“How?”
“Here, get down  on your hands and  knees…what do  you see?”
“Ahah!  I see through the stairs…I see the wall and  a  pit below.  Woody is not a stupid dog.   he knows
danger.”
“He won’t budge.  Locked his paw  over  the leash…FULL STOP!”


“ONLY  ONE THING  TO DO  ABOUT THAT, MADAM!
“What?”
“I  will carry him up and  down the stairs like this.”

And  Khalid  Mohiuddin picked Woody  up in his arms  and  carried  him 
upstairs and  downstairs for the two nights of  our  visit.

















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EPISODE 636 STEAM ERA AT MILTON SEPT. 3 TO 5, 2022

EPISODE 636    STEAM ERA,  4TH LINE, HALTON COUNTY, NEAR MILTON


alan skeoch
Sept.  2022

There is still time get to Steam Era if you get this Episode today, sept. 3, 2022
The show last until Monday sept..5.



Labour day week end discovery by accident….STEAM ERA IS BACK !!!

What is Steam Eara?  It is the annual celebration of a long lost age in which 
hot steam was harnessed to operate gigantic steam driven tractors.   Because of
the danger that compressed steam is explosive most of these ancient dinosaurs
of the farm fields have gone to the scrap heap a century ago.   But not all.
Some have been kept and maintained and each labour day week end the
sound of steam whistles echo up and down the Fourth Line of Halton County.

There may be time for a few readers to visit Steam Era.  Short instructions
Drive 401 to Trafalgar Rod exit, north to Steeles, west to 4th line, north to Steam Era
on the farm of Sherwood and Gladys Hume.  SEPT. 3,4,5,  2022.


This is our oldest son, Kevin, whose  hat indicates he is an enthusiast.   He even bought T shirts
for his progeny.    One was fitted for me but he ran out of money and bought a Steam Era
Cookbook instead.


A cedar shingle making machine…driven by a steam engine.


This old forgotten steel wheeled tractor will never run again.  A beauty for your mailbox.


Mr. Weeber has made by hand dozens of the cogged wheels that once were driven by stationary
steam engines bolted to the floors of 19th century factories.  The cogged wheels were made of iron.

“This is my jig’, he said and I misinterpreted
“You mean you can do a jig?”
“Certainly”, he responded and proceeded to dance across the floor of the steam display barn/

I got him on camera but from wrong side.



Life can be interesting.

alan
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EPISODE 634 ROBERT ROOT DESCRIBES HIS TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE WITH LYME DISEASE

Note: Just a brief pause in Irish stories due to info below sent to me by Robert Rood…Rooter
to his friends.  He survived a terrible black legged tick bite and subsequent Lyme disease.
A warning to readers.



EPISODE 634     ROBERT ROOT DESCRIBES HIS TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE WITH LYME DISEASE


alan skeoch
sept. 2022

“ Rooter, can I send your Lyme disease experience to my readers?  A terrible experience.”
“If my story will help prevent Lyme disease, I will be happy.”
“Great, Rooter, I think some people do not take me seriously when I tell my tick stories
because very few people ever have a problem.”
“Sure thing!  If it helps one person to be more cautious it is worth telling.”

Robert Root on the day we got permission to explore a derelict farm
near Collingwood, Ontario.  Farm equipment was just abandoned.  On that
day we did not worry about the ticks that might be waiting for us in the
long grass.  We wore long pants of course.

5 ticks on a ruler and surrounding a dime. They range in size from about 3 millimeters long to about half the size of the dime.
Stages of life – black legged tick


ROBERT ROOT DESCRIBES HIS HARROWING TICK EXPERIENCE
(“Alan, I hope this helps alert people to the danger of black legged ticks.”

On Aug 31, 2022, at 2:27 PM, Robert Root <robertwroot@gmail.com> wrote:


I was walking on a trail in the local conservation area when I decided to go into the long grass beside the trail to get to the summit of a hill and get a better view.  I was wearing shorts.  I did not know anything about ticks or lyme disease and at the time twenty years ago Lyme disease was not very prevalent in Ancaster, Ontario.

Two or three days later I experienced swelling in my lower legs and when I sat down and elevated my legs 
my heart felt like it was being swamped with fluid.  
I went to my doctor who is a real frontier doctor.  He has  a record for the most house calls in a year because 
in the rural area where he had practiced many of his patients were unable to come to his office for help.

I did not have a bullseye rash but did have a lot of redness on my left lower leg.  He laughed and said, “Oh you have spider bites!”.  He gave me an antibiotic to deal with the spider bites and thankfully it was the same antibiotic that is used to treat Lymes disease.  At that time 20 years ago Lyme disease was in New York State but it was not thought to have crossed into Ontario and so he was not looking for it.

The swelling continued and I spent considerable time lying on the floor with my legs propped up to drain fluid from them.  Both lower legs were now affected.  It took weeks for this to subside a bit.  During this time I went to a Stag for my son Wesley at the Woodbine racetrack but had to go back to my car and prop my legs up on the dash for the fluid to drain out of them.   My doctor now recognized that it was Lyme Disease.  He prescribed Support hose for me to wear.  Gradually I got a bit better but to this day I still wear support hose during the day and try to put my legs up to drain a couple of times a day. 

I am one of the lucky ones who got the antibiotic early and that prevented a lot of the long term damage which some people have to endure.  There is a lady who lives down the street from me that is suffering a lot more long term problems from Lyme disease because it was not detected early and by the time it was diagnosed the antibiotic was not  very effective.

When I walk in the woods now I wear a long sleeve shirt and long pants and always check for ticks on my body when I come back.   One can still be reinfected by Lyme disease.   You do not build up immunity to it.


ROBERT ROOT

Rooter’s description puts me in mind of a line from the poet T.S. Elliot

“I grow old
I grow old,
I think I’ll wear my pant legs rolled”

(Don’t take this advice…do not wear your pant legs rolled in the long grass)

alan