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4 THE RURAL VOICE
Gisele Ireland
A system all their own
Super Wrench was engaging in a
lengthy chin wag with several
buddies at the shop counter, when
one of the men, after casting a
horrified glance at the clock, abruptly
announced he had to leave.
"What's
your rush?" the
others wanted
to know.
"It's our
anniversary and
I'm taking her
out, supposedly
half an hour
ago, to
celebrate."
"How long
has it been?",
the Wrench
asked him.
"I dunno",
he replied, "we
got married the year of Hurricane
Hazel, you figure it out."
The departing gentleman's remark
startled me, as silly me was under the
impression I had the only spouse who
remembered what I considered
important dates of our lives with
events.
When Super Wrench is asked
about his wedding day, he clearly
remembers it was the year the
Montreal Canadiens won the Stanley
Cup and the score. He also has vague
memory flashes of it being in May, as
he claims he's been sending Mayday
messages ever since.
Our engagement date coincides
with the year he got his first job out
of college and most importantly, his
first new car. It was red, he'll tell you
fondly.
Our first child was born the year
he combined corn on Christmas Eve
and had to pull the combine out of
the mud with chains several times.
We moved to the farm the year the
corn froze the middle of June. Our
second child was born the year we
had a horrendous blizzard on Good
Friday, and he was storm stayed near
Clinton. Our third child was born the
year we had the highway closed
between Wingham and Teeswater on
a regular basis and his Dad got a new
snowmobile so I had transportation to
the hospital. He can describe, to the
last nut and bolt, the sled they
manufactured from a tractor fender to
drag me on behind the snowmobile in
case I couldn't sit up for the ride.
Thankfully it was one of his
inventions we didn't have to test.
Our fourth child was born two
years before he got the cows and he
suffered the worst case of the flu he'd
ever had. Two years after that, the
barn burned. Some of his birthdays
were memorable, although I did my
best to make them all that way. He
remembers his 43rd in particular, as it
was Black Tuesday, with a major
stock market crash and he got his
hand caught in the cattle squeeze and
almost lost a couple of fingers. His
41st birthday is remembered as the
day the bank closed him down. I
could go on forever, but I'm sure
you've got the drift. All those
memories of romantic settings, fancy
outfits and special places were sup-
planted by what I consider mundane
events. Oh well, he can reminisce his
way, and I'll do it my way.
If you have a special day in 1997,
you have several events to choose
from to associate it with. It was the
year of Bre-X, the year we paid off
our ex -Prime Minister, a teacher's
strike, a postal strike and starvation in
North Korea. I prefer to remember it
as the year we celebrated the arrival
of two grandchildren. To each his
own. A happy and healthy 1998 to
you and yours.0
Gisele Ireland, from Bruce County, is
an author of several humorous books
on farm life.
Deadline
for the February edition of
The Rural Voice is
January 14, 1998.
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