Snowy White Ruby Tuesday

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winter snows have finally arrived to the niagara peninsular and it was a cruel awakening..i cannot blame the snow queen of idaho, because for the last few weeks she has been wearing her "mother of the year" crown..she has been at the side of her pretty daughter who is giving mr. and mrs. mac another grandchild...and so i really don't know WHO i can blame!

the snow has changed this[our very last flower of the year who had been doing just fine]...


to THIS!..just look at that brave little face peeking through the cold!.....not a pretty sight!


here is another victim..the little red car really enjoys the sun but winter has changed it ...


to THIS!!


and it has put bernie to work!


oh well such is life.. and so the little red car offered to take us away from all of this.. saying so long to the snow covered sunday school van..we are carried away to bettys.


and betty carries us away to niagara falls where we will be picking up rachel from work.


rachel is a manager of wendys and she treats us to a late supper..the chili really takes away the chill from our cold bodies!


betty and her beautiful daughter, rachel.


rachel and her lovely sister, amy.


ha!..and you know who these two characters are!


well here is ruby tuesday in the background


amy who knows about my ruby tuesday and who has seen our beloved teach decided to take this picture.
just imagine.... in the chill of a new winter, here we are standing in front of the ruby tuesday restaurant in niagara falls!


look at the ferris wheel in the distance..it is lighting up the night sky.


as we walk, we get closer..


and closer...


we discover that rachel and amy have planned a surpise for her mom and her auntie and uncle...


they have decided to send us up into the sky in that huge wheel ...up above.. high above the ground ...a ride and a look-see of niagara falls!


we aren't afraid at all..after all doesn't betty have on her ruby red coat?!


for sure and she is a real pro at riding this ferris wheel..just a month ago, she and her family spent a few days in niagara falls, enjoying this ride!


ha!..bernie is trying hard not to show that he is scared..he looks as white as he did years ago when we took a ski lift, in calgary way high to the mountain top...of course there was a little matter of a thunder storm on our way up...but it's all right!..no chance of a thunder storm HERE!..maybe a snow blizzard but NOT a thunder storm!


oh the glittering lights below were so beautiful!


blues and reds and greens and yellows...


sparkling like precious jewels!


niagara falls is pretty busy at night..the roads are filled with cars and the sreets are crowded with people..old people,young people and even babies being wheeled about by young mom's and dad's!


we have one more look at the skylon tower and we are satisfied...snow or no snow...a ruby tuesday visit to niagara falls was not too bad!

happy ruby tuesday everyone and thank you my best friend, felisol for your encouraging me to finally smarten up and put in a post!!...god bless you everyone...love terry

A Blushing Face On A Ruby Tuesday

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i know that it is ruby tuesday but i thought that i would put this in for the occasion..now next ruby tuesday will be the 26th and july 26 is mom and dad golden's anniversary and we have already started to celebrate.
every evening when we go to dad and mom goldens, after supper dad golden wants me to put the computer on and to search for norway and mrs. mac to see what they are doing and then we have to put on google news, and then we start to google search on different singers that they knew in the "olden days"...ha!...when we looked for the song on you tube, "it is no secret what god can do"...the reason we wanted to hear it is because we told dad golden that stu hamblin had written that song at the request of one of his friends...after stu had gotten saved at a billy graham crusade, there was a change in his life and when his friend noticed and when stu told him about his new and changed life, well that friend told him, "you should write a song about that stu"...and so he did!...THAT friend was john wayne!
anyways, in our search for that song, we ran into this treasure, "my home", a song that stu wrote for his wife and to tell you the truth, bernie and i were both in tears as we listened...the words in this song are so like mom and dad golden...so, so the same!
so a week ahead of time i want to wish them a happy 64th anniversary...i think i will be doing a few more posts for the occasion and then next tuesday on the very day, i will make a ruby tuesday special post!



god bless you all this ruby tuesday...love terry

ps dad golden has a blushing face that shows all shades of red, so this post will surely do for a ruby tuesday!..hahahaha

Ma Mere's Kind and Generous Hands

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yesterday as i was on my way to pick up sunday school children, i had to first drop ma mere home.. ma mere is ma-mere to everyone at the gospel hall. she has many, many biological grandchildren but she is shared by everyone at the gospel hall!
well anyways, about yesterday..she told me, "terry, i want you to come upstairs...i have something for you and bernie", and so upstairs i went, and THIS is what she gave to me!
this place mat that she had made for us was so full of red that i just thought i would use it for ruby tuesday...now i must tell you though that the little red car had a nose way out of joint!."hadn't we", said the little red car, "gone out saturday and found a pretty house with a red roof. a pretty house just surrounded by crimson flowers, a pretty house and red flowers that we took PICTURES of and hadn't i been promised that you would use THOSE pictures for rubytuesday?"
of course i had said that, but a woman's mind can be changed so easily, eh?
and so therefore "voila!"..here is my ruby post!
ma mere makes these place mats out of hundreds of christmas cards that she has saved through the years..ma mere is 92, i think, and so she told me that she would cut those cards up and give them some use.
ma mere for years has crocheted and knit mitts. hats and baby blankets and sweaters for all of her own children and grandchildren and for all of her children and grandchildren that she has adopted from the gospel hall.
now her kind and generous hands are almost worn out from all of this work.
now her kind and generous hands are making place matts for her hundreds of loved ones.
"oh, " she told me, "i can only make two a day, terry"
"and" she continued, "you can wash it after you use it!"
as if i WOULD!![USE them i mean]..ha this place mat is going to find a place right on my wall!!

happy ruby tuesday everybody and god bless..love terry

Ruby Tuesday Brandon Flooding

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these ruby tuesday shoes would surely have no place to dance in brandon, manitoba!


for sure and the assiniboine river has different ideas as she has overflowed her water and created a flood in brandon, manitoba.

the golf course was more than soaked and although the breeze was warm, there was just no way for anyone to score a hole in one!


our prime minister braved the rain and came to see what the problem was and judging by his smiles, he didn't seem to be too worried..after all, he would be flying back to ottawa to win the election....ottawa is a lot warmer and there are no floods!


even though the road says "closed", people still had to be stopped from trying to drive into the water!


this is the turtle crossing camp ground that bernie and i and the little red car camp every year when we visit my beloved manitoba...this year the camp will not be open..there will be not 2011 season.


nope, the entrance doors will be securely closed!


this is the field that we would quite often see deer as we drove the road to the camp site..i wonder what the deer will do about all of this water! they are used to grazing in the fields that are flooded with yellow flowers[canola], not fields that are flooded with water!


these guys are piping the water out....to where?..i wonder.


time for a break?..no, sorry fellows, the kitchen is closed..soaking!..keep on working!!


many willing people are lending their hands to place the sand bags along the river bank..


and even the armed forces from shilo air force base camp are aiding...


and brandon's own city workers are putting in a regular[?] working day?..NOT..these fellows are usually tearing up the streets and making new roads!..AND causing all kinds of traffic jams!



these streets lead in and out of the city and are usually packed but i don't think they could get to the city even if they wanted to because many of the stores are closed and flooded.


those white sand bags look like snow and blocks of ice, eh?


it does look like they have done the trick though, holding back the water and soon the roads were clear enough for the cars to go through.. and where, pray tell are they all on their way to?


to the mall of course where walmart is!



it sure isn't the fault of canada post that this fellow is missing mail delivery!


for sure unstable AND uncontained!



this poor road still needs some help and i am just wondering if the guy lives on this road that is..


trying to sell his house, boat included no less...seems like a good deal to me!..after all it comes included with a built in swimming pool that can be converted to a built in skating rink in the winter!!

happy ruby tuesday everybody and god bless you....love terry