EPISODE 918 DINNER WITH COUSIN TED FREEMAN AND HIS WIFE SHIRLEY NOV. 24, 2023
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Nov. 23, 2023
MARJORIE SKEOCH, TED AND SHIRLEY FREEMAN NOV. 23, 2023
It has been a long time since we have seen each other. Shirley and Ted Freeman have moved
back to Canada after 35 winter months at their ex=pat home in Texas.
They are back on the farm I remember so well. Ted’s mom and dad are so close to me that
it is hard to write about them. Their farm is the farm where we spent so much of our childhood
years that it seemed like a pat of our own home. It is very hard to write about people and
places that are close…tight…personal.
Why did they return to Canada after so many winters inTexas. Health care. Simple. The cost
of extra health care for Snowbirds is around $10,000 per year. That cost cannot be sustained. And it
may not even be enough if a devastating illness or accident happens.
Some Canadians experiencing a terrible operation prefer to hire an air ambulance to get
back to Canada.
Ted and Shirley are not ill. They are back home. And maybe this will give me a chance
to write about their farm. Of all the farms in our family there are only two where relatives still live.
The Townsend farms and the Freeman farm.
my cousin Ted Freeman had aneardeth experience…the thought of which he would rather not talk