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Parent Category: I Minds Da Time (2000 Reunion)
Category: Of Friends and Family

I REMEMBER
   by Bridie (Ennis) McLennan

    • Riding hoops!
    • Walking on stilts - see who can have the highest!
    • Swimming in the beach and harbour. Leo's skiff almost ran over me at one time.
    • Meeting Mr. Paul Wilson and his dog, Sputnik, on the road. He always had a story to tell--the one about "Sput" blowing the big bubbles with the bubble gum he gave him.
    • Chasing Andy and Phil in to the "Hairs Ears" to check their rabbit slips.
    • My mother's kindness and quietness: my father's tenderness.
    • Mr. Casey coming off the point with the mail bags on his back.
    • Waiting in the Post Office for Dick to have the mail sorted and open the mail shutter.
    • The reverence that we had for the older people.
    • My mother telling me not to ride the bike when the Nuns were home.
    • Taking Andy's new coaster brake bike and riding over to the Point (store). Couldn't slow down because I didn't know how to use those brakes, so had to jump off as I headed for the corner of Martin Connors’ house. Still carry the
    • Two inch scar on my leg.
    • Going on picnics to the Scrape Cove with (Aunt) Dell. She always brought a pack of sweet biscuits!
    • Dell teaching me how to start the old Acadia engine in the punt.
    • The many "rows in the dory" myself and Anne Hepditch had.
    • Hearing Phil land on the floor in the morning - started with a jig and, I believe, he still does!
    • The spruce beer Dad used to make (the best!) Betty used to cough and cough at night because she knew Dad would bring the bottle of spruce beer and leave it, saying, "Take a drop of that now if you start again."
    • Berry picking on The Marsh and The Burnt.
    • Neet's wringlets.
    • Jumping in the mud holes in your bare feet.
    • Climbing the Big Rock.
    • Getting water from The Spring Well.
    • Playing Hopscotch, Larry and Kat.
    • Digging mussels in the "Muddy Hole.”
    • Catching capelin in the Big Back Cove.
    • The wonderful teachers I had.
    • How we looked up to Billy - because he was so smart!
    • The weekly letters from my Aunt Bridie in Boston - she always had a new American dollar bill in there! It was always the fastest one I answered.
    • When Jim rolled over the bank to the beach, head first in the barrel.
    • Playing "shop" on the rock ledges.
    • The excitement of hand-me-downs from Sheila and Flo.
    • Scrubbing the wooden floors in the schoolhouse on Saturdays.
    • Shining the brass chandeliers and candlesticks in the Church – that ugly Brasso!
    • Practising the Latin for Mass.
    • The dances on the Spout bridge.
    • Kevin Pomroy playing the accordion all the way up from the hall.
    • The white dresses mom made for me and Betty for our concert in grade 3 or 4. Blue bows and blue ribbon in our hair – everyone called us twins.
    • Lucy - wanting to be in the middle of everything - you weren't getting away without her!
    • The privilege of sleeping at Mary's house when Ferg (Pomroy) was gone in the Scolia bringing the school inspector around the bay. I was like one of her own.
    • The good bread Betty used to make - it was always better than mine!
    • Jim Connors coming to our house at meal time (for peace and quiet, he said) - There was 14 of us and 11 of them) - guess it was the change of scenery and the daily chat. He and Dad always seemed to catch up on the news.
      • (Maybe Dad had asked him to because we tried hard to be good while he was there!)
    • Stopping at Dick and Ann's on Saturday evening - he always had that twenty-five cents to give us for the movie!
    • The time I was late for school and couldn't return until I spoke with Father Lewis first - he was away at the time and wouldn't be back for 4 days!
    • The dangerous places we used to climb to pick raspberries!
    • The dances and parties in The Hall.
    • The wonderful friends and neighbours we had!
      • ALL THE 6000 OLD TIMES!