End Of January Post

I thought it was time to do an update. Poor Mike has been holding the fort with some input from Muskoka Gowers. First off , I want to wish Mandy a great big Happy 29th, the ONLY time she can say it for real. Congratulations to Emily who graduated to Orange belt. Mandy will expand on that in her blog I'm sure. Things at work have eased off so I can go back to living the life of the "retarded, I mean retired" although there are one or two who will agree with the latter but W.G.A.F...should get that on my license plate. Well...for those interested here is a quick synopsis of what is happening in" day Hood". Ivy and I had to get our passports re-newed and let me tell you what a joke. I tricked her into getting her picture taken at the Automobile club after we walked up on the premise of just getting information. She was not too pleased with the picture but like I said it was one less thing to worry about. Not only that, but it saved us a trip up town as they have the applications there. I then took mine to my eye Dr. and she took hers to her Dentist, BUT, because she lost hers a couple years ago in Florida we had to go to Family court to get an affidavit as to what she said happened to her old passport. Going into that horrid place brought back terrible memories, Family court I mean...and I'm sure others feel the same way,lmao. Almost as much searching going in there as getting on a plane. Anyway ... after we got everything together we head up to Jackson Square. They have moved the passport office down to the second floor where we encountered about three hundred other people looking to do the same thing as we were hoping to do. Mandy had mentioned a post office out in Ancaster that are allowed to accept "straight forward" applications only, and for a $15 extra fee. I let Ivy go first and as soon as buddy spotted her affidavit he put the brakes on. Said she would have to take it DOWNTOWN, so all that for nothing. He accepted mine, along with my old passport and my birth certificate, which is one less piece of I.D I will have when we go down south as they are telling me that the applications from start to finish will take about forty days , twice the amount of time due to back logs. Enough of that...Ivy and I along with mom and Norm attended C.K.O.C's 85th birthday celebration at Chandelier PLace in Stoney Creek. We have attended for the last few years and it is pretty good time. For $25 a head you get night of entertainment and some cold cut sandwiches, coffee, and last night cake and ice cream bars. The band was Polly and The Greaseballs, not the greatest name but man can they rock. The singers are really good but the band backing them up are SUPER. I have been to a few functions where this band has played and they are good. There was also an Elvis impersonator there. We saw him at an Elvis thing in Welland a couple of years ago. None of the impersonators have come close to the one I saw in Hagersville. He was part of a show that the Lacross association held on the reserve. And the next best was a guy we saw in Vegas. Looks like I have run out of stuff to gab about. See you around mid Feb.