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John,
Larry sent me another E-mail before he came yesterday. I said to him that I didn’t want to go
for a walk before snack time if it was going to rain, so he suggested in his response that we
could use umbrellas but I’m not sure about that idea. Now even though we didn’t get any rain
yesterday, we sure had an adventure on our walk...it was so windy yesterday afternoon that I had
to hold my hat on my head for part of the walk. It even blew off my head at one point and then
it landed something like 20 feet behind us, Larry ran back and got it for me. This is something
that you and I haven’t yet experienced on any of our walks. My mom said that the weather we had
yesterday was my dad’s fault because he watched
“The Wizard of Oz”
when it was on TV a few nights before and that has the big tornado in the beginning. It was a
good thing that Izzy didn’t get shut outside all yesterday afternoon.
Anyway, I took Larry over to 19A Avenue and showed him the fountain yesterday afternoon. I
attached a map of the walk, we went counter-clockwise around the area that’s highlighted in red
on the map and “X” marks the spot at which the fountain is located. You’ve been on this walk
with me before, you and I just haven’t gone westbound yet on 19A. Anyway, I never knew until
Larry pointed it out yesterday that there are actually two fountains there, there is a second
rock one behind the fountain (the one that you already saw). He took me across the street
and I saw the second fountain behind the gate. Larry said that we didn’t want to go any further
than the gate or the people who live there might get mad and throw us into the wood chipper that
was parked down the street from there. Larry also said that he heard a clunking sound coming
from the first fountain (the one that is outside the gate) and he thought that it might
be the pump. And in Larry’s last E-mail response that I got before he came yesterday, he also
sent me a link to a pic of this fountain in Seattle that he and his wife saw last summer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Internationalfountain.jpg
In the same E-mail response in which Larry included the above link, he also said:
> Of course a fountain may be even more
splendid if it is raining…all that water.</p>
We played four games of “SORRY” after snack time, he won the first two games and I won the
second two and then we played a bunch of “Connect Four” until my mom came home just before 5PM.
He won most of the “Connect Four” games. We had a few of what he calls “stalemates,” but we also
had a few games where I connected four and I didn’t see it until after he connected four. He
thought that you should win if the other person connects four and doesn’t notice until after you
connect four just like in the card game
Uno
whereas the player who forgets to say “UNO” must draw six cards once another player calls it
out, so I told him that when I play with you I still win if I connect four and don’t see it
until after you connect four. And did you hide the “Cheers” button? Larry went to press it
yesterday after he won his first game of “SORRY” only to find out that it flew the coop.
Larry said that he would really like to teach me Chess one day. He said that when he was in
university, a friend of his had a Chessboard on the wall of his room and the pieces had Velcro
on the bottom so that you could stick them to the board when playing. Larry asked me what would
my mom think if she came home one day and saw us playing Chess on the wall.
And remember I previously said in the E-mail I sent you on Tuesday Mar.3,2009 that Larry
suggested maybe him and I could drive to a fish store sometime? He suggested that maybe next
Tuesday (on the 7th) we could drive to the Fish World store on Scott Road at 64th Avenue.
And he also told me that he knows of a few nice walks in that area, but I don’t know about
driving up there with him next Tuesday because you know that our meeting out in PoCo is just two
days after that and you know how I get tired easily when there’s too much going on in the same
week.
My dad came home yesterday just as Larry was leaving and Larry saw the big cake that was in
the trunk of my dad’s car. He and Janice picked up the cake on their way home from work and then
my dad kept it overnight. It’s a big chocolate cake with pink icing and it’s for Nikki’s
birthday, that’s his secretary at work who I told you lives in North Vancouver. My dad phoned my
mom’s cell phone yesterday afternoon while she was out and told her to pick out a birthday card
for Nikki that they will make from everybody.
When my dad went upstairs to change after he got home from work on the day before (on
Monday), he said that the comforter that’s on their bed attacked him. Guess who was underneath
it. And then yesterday morning after he came out of the shower while he was getting ready for
work, their comforter attacked him again.
My mom told me that she saw lots of dogs when they were in Crescent Park last Sunday
afternoon (on March 29th). Remember that they were going to go to Crescent Beach at first,
but they turned around and decided to drive to Crescent Park instead when they saw all the cars
were lined up on Crescent Road all the way back to 128th Street. My mom also told me that when
they stopped at the Art Knapps on King George before they drove towards Crescent Beach, she saw
an old car that someone had fixed up parked next to them. Also, they had a cage full of bunnies
inside Art Knapps on that day.
My mom took a closer look at the box of Goldfish crackers that I told you she got for me and
saw that they said “Giant Goldfish,” so these might also come in a smaller size. I tried the big
size that she got me though and thought that they’re worth buying again.
Stories my mom told me about that have been on the news:
• The shooting in Gibsons. There were no fatalities, but two people are in
hospital and are in serious condition including the woman who started it all. They were trying
to evict her from the nursing home that she’s in because she was causing problems. And she
wasn’t happy about being evicted.
• That Conficker worm. This is the virus that was expected to activate itself on April
1st. My mom said that they didn’t say anything about the virus on today’s Noon News, so
hopefully this will just be what my mom describes as a “big nothing” and I hope that my computer
won’t be infected.
And did you get the E-mail I sent you two days ago (on Monday) titled “A bit of this
and that” in which I asked you if you have any plans for Easter weekend?
-Neil
P.S. Links for today:
Card game: Uno
Movie: The Wizard of Oz (1939)
TV series: Hawaii Five-O *
Wikipedia image: International Fountain (Seattle)
* denotes a link that I gave in the E-mail I sent
you on Saturday Mar.21,2009.
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