The first Rally of the season was a basic, intimate rally with eight coaches in attendance. Some were
parked in the open lot around the light pole, whilst the others sought some shelter between the barns.
Little did we know, the wind would come from the west and funnel right down between the barns,
Mother Nature foiled us again!
Mary-Ann had appealed to the attendees to “bring a sewing machine if you have one”. No doubt Mary-
Ann had something neat planned out. So Friday night, rope baskets were being assembled and sewn.
When I showed up Saturday, I thought everyone was making a toque! They were neat baskets for sure!
Verne had brought his infamous fire pit, but it didn’t come up on the back of the coach, he stuffed that
thing in the back of Audrey’s car! What was he thinking?!
As usual, we huddled around the fire, trying to keep warm from that westerly. Audrey had asked me if I
could bring some firewood with me, it’s a good thing she asked, as we had burned every last scrap of
wood we had. So much so, on Monday morning, Verne had to use his portable compressor to finish
burning the ashes in the fire pit (before it went back into Audrey’s car).
Saturday night, Bev and Dennis put on a fun game of music bingo, I think it was 50’s and 60’s music?
Being as young as I am, I only recognized 3 or 4 songs! I bet you can’t guess who had a handicap in this
game?!
The first round cost 25 cents and we needed two full lines in any direction, Jody won that round. The
second round cost 50 cents and this time we needed to make an “X” and this was won by Verne. Which
brought us to our final round and cost us a dollar. This round was to be complete by getting the 4
corners and wouldn’t you know it, Verne won this round, too! I wonder if he had horseshoes in his
pockets?
Sunday was another cloudy chilly day, I made two pots of coffee on Sunday (thanks to the handy outlet
on the barn). The crafters were in the barn finishing the last bits and pieces of their baskets and Verne
had his fire lit first thing in the afternoon. People would come and go for the chit chat and warmth,
stubbornly sitting in the wind. It wasn’t until Happy Hour that we figured out, if we move the fire to the
lee side of the barn, the wind couldn’t get to us. So, Happy Hour was much warmer and with everyone in
attendance, patiently waiting for the pizza to arrive, looking at Mary-Ann’s collection of photos from the
pirate rally from Sept. we had some good chuckles and stories, reminiscing of times past. We had pizza
Sunday night from Ali Baba in Duncan. We all sat in the barn at our own tables and enjoyed the pizza,
we even had enough for some folk to take left-overs home. This was followed by a rousing game of
Jenga, courtesy of Mary-Ann and Gary.
Monday was the mass exodus, remembering the fun we had over the weekend and looking forward to
the next get together (July at the Living Forest), I headed for home, stopping for fuel and almost fainting
at what a ½ tank of fuel cost me! However, anytime in the RV is a good time, so I shan’t worry much
about the cost of fuel, I have two legs and two arms so surely I can do without one of them??
Matt
