The Power of Babble Siete: el Virus Edicion

There will be one more blog post tomorrow night that will complete the story for now .. and I will explain tomorrow what the future will bring now that I have documented all of this. I just want to alert you to another blog I will be starting on Sunday dedicated to what I and my camera are seeing as I walk around the local area here .. and for those interested to know a little bit more about the area Yvonne and I are in ... please visit this web site . You will be able to read the new blog right here . See you tomorrow right here for the finale and catch you Sunday for the debut of Melaque Malarkey. Phil (22 January 2021 - San Patricio de Melaque - 7:19 PM) Krome Koan - 'I never finish anyth'

There are three days that I remember being the best in my life ... 14 August 1976 .. when Yvonne and I got married ... 16 January 1987 when Yvonne gave birth to our oldest daughter .. and the 11 September 1992 .. . yes 9/11 .. when Yvonne gave birth to our youngest daughter ...  I remember all three very well ... I will now focus on 14 August 1976 ... the wedding party was all located in a motel in the centre of town ... the wedding was being held in the church in the small town where Yvonne was born and brought up ... old friends .. new friends .. relatives from both sides were all gathered ... we were all in the motel together ... Bernard Lundy was there ... my old connection to my youth and the west side of Saint John ... my sister was there .. a rare chance to connect that I probably wasted .. I remember spending time with Bernard and my old friend from university ... and with Bill and RC .. we had a few beer .. but  not as many as we would normally sink ...  When the...

With the date for the wedding set ... there was one more thing to be taken care of ... usually ... Yvonne would be marrying a Catholic .. and what was required by the church was that Yvonne and I would take a five part marriage prep course ... basically a guide for younger couples ... you can now do it online ... but back in the day it was usually given by married church members ... I forget what the cost was then ... but it is big dollars today .. more if you buy the workbooks and want longer term access to reference materials ...  Of course I wasn't catholic .. or anything ... and anybody who knew me then would have told you there is not a religious bone in my body ... whatever it is religion does for the people who believe in it and need it .. it does the opposite for me ... and I have not changed in that regard ... but I have something a lot of folks don't .. tolerance ... I know that Yvonne was extremely nervous about this .. thought it might be a deal breaker ... but it t...

Well the next step for me was 'the ring' .. how the hell was I going to do that and keep it a secret .. I needed to get the size right ... well I was in luck .. Yvonne had taken to wearing my Engineering Ring as a kind of a friendship thing ... like those Irish rings .. cladagh rings I believe .. so I must have gotten it from her on some excuse that I needed to wear it for some reason and took it to Peoples Jewellers ... I have no idea how I decided what design or how many carats ... but the purchase was made and now it was just a matter of timing and circumstance ...  I had my old hockey game from Xmas past .. the kind where you articulate the players by pushing and pulling rods that you could also spin to create a shot .. the goaltender simply moved from side to side .. I had taken to having tournaments .. drew up schedules ... everything .. another excuse to party like crazy ...  So .. on the 14 February ... yes Valentines Day ... I had scheduled a big tournament ... people...

In the New Year 1976 .. Yvonne and discussed plans to marry .. she said yes .. so now all we needed to do was travel to Saint John to meet my sister and my mother .. and Bernard and Joe Lundy ... and so on the 24 January 1976 we headed out on the 7 hour drive to my mother's house ... I didn't remember the date .. but Yvonne will never forget it ... I don't know how much I had told her about my mother but Yvonne was very nervous ... I don't remember very much .. I remember us sitting there talking to my mother .. I can still see what Yvonne had on .. I don't remember the conversation .. but I am sure it had a lot to do with Yvonne's parents and their Pizza Delight businesses ... we never said a thing about getting married ...  The next day was Sunday .... so I took Yvonne down the street to see Joe Lundy and his mother ... his mother let us in .. and the first thing I see is that Joe is asleep on the couch in the Living Room ... and there is this huge dog in the ...

In mid September 1975, Yvonne invited me to go home with her for the weekend ... this was not a 'meet the parents' thing .. just an offer to get away from the routine of carousing all the time ... so off we went 2 hours to Yvonne's home turf ... well actually a relative's place who was celebrating an anniversary .. of course I didn't know anybody so I just sat by the front door .. but I had strategically located a case of beer out there .. and Yvonne's brother just kept quietly and surreptitiously passing me one ... I got hammered ... The next morning we were off to her parents place about 25 minutes away from the old homestead ... they had an apartment over one of the Pizza Delights they owned .. it was closer and made more sense for management and operation of the enterprise .. I was as hungover as you can be and still function .. during the full dinner I had to excuse myself a couple of times because I thought I was to vomit ... but professional partier I am ...