Happy Birthday Bernie

You are 58 today Bernie!
Here is one of my favorite pictures of you.

My!
Didn't my little sisters have the biggest crush on you!!

As a matter of fact so did I, and you know what?
I still do have the biggest crush on you!!


I always liked this picture too.

I found it tonight in one of our old photo albums.

This was taken by Gary, remember, in Ottawa just before Betty and I left to go to St Catharines.

You were very important, mind you Bernie but when our family moved , well we just had to follow them and a year later you followed us!!

Hey do you remember Bernie that they welcomed you with opened arms...especially my little sisters and Mom ?

Do you remember that we used to almost live in these photo booths?

We have literally hundreds of these pictures!!

Such a good deal too.

Four for a quarter!

Ha! These are two partners in crime.

You and your best friend, Gary who just happens to be my brother.

I will be forever grateful that he brought you home one day, the first day that I met you!

It is so nice that you are still friends and you know that he never forgets your birthday and he will be phoning tomorrow.

This year our friends Felisol and the little Montreal Pilgrim Pals beat him to the draw and they even beat me to the draw!

Well when I met you , the two of you became the three of us and then when Betty came along, it was the four of us!

Always together!

Unfortunately, I have so many boxes of pictures that I just can't find the ones with us "Four Musketeers"...maybe when I find them I'll put them on another post!

Bernie, the nicest thing that you ever did for me was to take me back to my beloved Manitoba for a visit FIVE times!

Remember that you said you were not speeding?

Well, my dear, I took this picture of your speedometer and here is your proof!!

You surely were a little heavy on the foot, eh?

Or I should have said, in the case of a motorcycle that you were heavy on the hand!

We were just starting out from home in this picture.

Bernie, I think Betty took this picture just before we hit the highways on our way west!

You just think you are the coolest thing, eh sitting on that motorcycle?

Bernie, I will never forget the day when we drove out of Ontario and finally reached Manitoba!

Do you remember how I started to sob and you were no help at all in the situation because when I looked at you, YOU were crying too!!

"What's the matter with you?"

" I don't know. I think that I am feeling so happy!

This is the first time that I have been outside of Ontario, and it is so beautiful."

Bernie, you took me right to where I used to live!

I had never been to a dance in my life but I sure felt like dancing THAT day!!

And dance, I did!!

I will ever be grateful to you for that Bernie!

It is so tragic that all of these houses are torn down now and the air force is no longer there.

Well, here is what you look like now Bernie.

You don't even look 58!

I wish though that you did!!

I am just getting so frustrated that everyone thinks that I am your mother instead of your wife!

Ha!!

Right now you are on the night shift working but when you get home, I hope that you will look at this post.

If I had to do it all over again, Bernie, I would still have picked you to be my soul mate!

I am so glad that you were saved in 1970, one year before we got married.

I loved you when I met you and I love you even more today...Love Terry