HOW TO SPEND MARJORIE’S BIRTHDAY: A 12 HOUR TRIP TO PIRNCE EDWARD COUNTY
“Rush hour should be over, let’s head east to Picton for your birthday Marjorie.”
“Get Woody and start the motor…we have a beautiful day…can we do it in one day?”
“Think so…let’s roll…we have our favourite spots….”
FIRST STOP STAPLETON FARMS
(a farm produce booth north of Port Hope on Highway 28)
“Marjorie…good choice of a sweater”
“Pumpking hunting time…”
“Alan, I think we overdid it this time…truck nearly full.”
“Just getting started…let’s roll.”
SECOND STOP: PORT HOPE AND SALMON RUSH TO PROPOGATE
“How many salmon are trying to get upriver.”
“Hundreds, perhaps thousands.”
“Do they all make it…those are powerful waterfalls.”
“Some must…but I have been watching them at one waterfall and none…NONE…have been successful.”
“See that lone cormorant?
“Broken wing, cannot fly…doomed.”
“What happened?”
“Maybe a victim of Premier Ford’s cormorant cull”
“Cull?”
“Hunters allowed to shoot as many as they can…providing they pick up the dead bodies…tor so I read.
STOP THREE: ANOTHER FARM MARKET ON HIGHWAY #2 EAST OF COBOURG
STOP FOUR: AMTIQUE MARKET IN HEART OF BRIGHTON (FOLLOW THE THREAD)
“Wow, this certainly is different…industrial cast offs turned into furniture treasures”
“And coffee among the artifacts.”
“How much do they cost?”
“Well, the carpenters bench is $2,500 and milk shake maker is not cheap”
“Do not buy it, Alan…resist!?”
“Everyone wants a good milk shake, Marjorie…can I get it as your birthday present?”
“Mine…you mean your birthday, don’t you?”
“Be a sport….!!!”
STOP FIVE: NORTH BEACH, PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY
“North Beach is closed…we’ll have to walk in from the dirt road.”
“Happens every year…good luck for Woody.”
“Why?”
“No one there…a vast beach all to himself…not allowed there in summer time.”
“How old is the beach?”
“See this Fossil…a Bivalve…Devonian period about 400 million years old”
“My, this is a really old beach…why do so few people know about it?”
“People do not like to see themselves as Fossils.”
“Woody is trapped, Alan”
“Where?”
“He jumped from one slab of ancient bedrock to that little island
and now he’s afraid he can’t get back without getting wet.”
“Throw a stick…he’ll for it and forget about the water.”
STOP SIX: ANOTHER FARMER’S PLACE JUST NOTH OF PICTON: TURKEYS THAT LIKE MY VOICE
“Here we are again…more pumpkins…even cheaper at $10 for the huge kind.”
“How about a turkey…they seem to like us.”
“Stop gabbling…they think you speak their language.”
“Thankfully they have survived the Thanksigiving dinner plates.”
:”Hope so…only four more days to Thanksiving.”
“What are they saying?”
“Big guy came after us and we hid in the corn crib”
STOP SEVEN: A LIGHT SUPPER … ALONE IN THE DINING ROOM OF THE WARING HOUSE
“Will we make it to Picton this year?”
“looks like we failed again…sun hitting the horizon soon “
“Look the birds are having a bath just outside our window.”
“How romantic!”
“And you thought I could not be romantic.”
“See what I SEE?”
“The flauwers have gone to seed…I am going out
there to walk Woody and steal seeds.”
“How romantic?”
“While you are stealing, I will have a glass of Barley Days Dark beer.:’”
“How romantic?”
WOODY WANTS US TO HEAD HOME…NOW…BEFORE ABSOLUTE DARK
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARJORIE