To:

bubzulu@shaw.ca

From:

My ISP address

Subject:

Dogs and donuts

Date Sent:

Monday Aug.17,2009

Message:

John,

Yesterday morning after I checked my E-mail and before my mom phoned you when I talked with her about you didn’t actually respond to my two previous E-mails though you said that you were going to, she absentmindedly said that you’re probably enjoying your time off while everyone was gone. I told her last week that it wasn’t until today Dianne and the bunch were leaving for Parksville, how could she not remember that seeing how she knew that you and I were suppose to drop off Taffy yesterday afternoon? Why would you and I be driving Taffy out there on yesterday if Dianne wasn’t leaving today and there would be people home at the other house to look after the other dogs?

And you forgot two minutes after we left the Macs store what I said I was having for my afternoon snack...I told you that I was going to have the “Reese's Peanut Butter Cups” I got last Tuesday when I was with Larry at the Macs store. And I thought about getting a mint AERO bar on that day, but instead I got a regular AERO bar and the “Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.”

I also told you that last Tuesday was the day when they had the eastbound lanes on 16th Avenue dug up and traffic was down to only one lane in each direction. Also, a steamroller was parked that day on Phoenix just South of where they were working. And I didn’t tell you yet about the big event that happened on last Tuesday August the 11th, Larry and I saw a cat together for first time. Larry pointed out the cat when he saw it run across in front of us while we were walking on Blackburn Avenue. Not only it was a big event because Larry and I saw a cat, but after it ran in front of us across the road Larry saw it go into the front yard where the monkey puzzle tree is. I didn’t see the cat myself until it was sitting right in front of the house and I didn’t see it too close because I saw it when I was standing at the other end of its front yard at the curbside, but I did manage to see it though.

Our dentist’s office phoned here this morning at 10:30 to confirm my mom’s appointment at 5PM tomorrow. My mom doesn’t know how long she’ll be in the dentist’s office or what time she’ll be home, so she might either stop and pick up Safeway Chinese food for me on her way home or she’ll have my dad pick it up just before he comes home at Five.

And then a couple hours later, Jenny phoned my mom at lunch time today and told her that she’s all excited about going away to Victoria just her and Judy. One of the times when Jenny phoned us last week, she said that they’ll do some sightseeing over there going to places such as the “Wax Museum” and the “Royal BC Museum.” And then my dad told her about the bug zoo that we went to the time when my dad and I took my friend, Mac, over to Victoria.

When my dad talked to my grandpa on the phone two nights ago (on Saturday evening), my grandpa asked him when they could do the wine. My dad thought maybe wait and do that next weekend seeing how he knew that the last couple weekends had been quite busy for us.

There was a big accident on the Port Mann Bridge coming home from Port Moody on Saturday with Michael and Zachary, luckily though it happened in the northbound lanes and was only backing up traffic heading North. My dad told us that it was backed up well into Guildford. And then when they were on 152nd and they got near 108th Avenue, they had to stop and let a fire truck pass them. Because the northbound lanes were backed up, the fire truck was in my dad’s lane and was heading right towards them.

My mom and dad drove by the new Dairy Queen on 152nd Street near Highway 10 yesterday after they dropped me off at your place and my mom said that she didn’t see any cars in the parking lot. Now if it finally opens this week, maybe you and I could go there next Sunday (on the 23rd) after we walk the dogs. And I’m still hoping that it will have the right kind of washrooms that I can just walk into without having to ask the staff behind the counter to buzz me in while I push on the door, otherwise I won’t go to that one again.

My mom read in the Vancouver Sun two days ago (on Saturday) about some of the businesses that are on Granville Island, and one of them was Lee's Donuts. Larry and I almost went to Granville Island on Saturday August 8th but we later decided that Granville Island might be a bit crowded for me on Saturdays.

And earlier today in the afternoon, the city’s bylaw enforcement came to our front door. They were going around checking if peoples’ dogs are licensed. They also asked my mom if our next door neighbours’ dog is licensed, so my mom told them that they don’t have a dog either. And my mom remembers that the bylaw enforcement didn’t come around our area last year at this time, but she knows that sometimes the city will hire students over the summer to go around and check.

Please write me before Thursday.

-Neil

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