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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1984-09-12, Page 66Page 18-Crushruads -Sept. 19, 1984 Atk lommillamilliftw Bill Smiley A small hotelsammoommissom. Just a few rather dour comments on a few things, as summer drags to a close: I now know what it is like to run a summer hotel, without benefit off staff. I undertook to take my grandboys for two weeks. They were here for four. Their mother joined us "for a few days" and stayed two weeks. Their Uncle Hugh has been up from the city at least every other weekend, often -with friends. Trouble is that it's beautiful around here, with trees, svbimming in fresh water, breathing in clean air, and eating fresh food: sweetcorn picked today, green or yellow beans the same, real tomatoes instead of those. hard, bitter little pellets from Florida or California, strawberries and raspberries and black- berries just off the vine, , I don't blame them. The city can be pretty gruelling in a hot summer. But next summer I'm going to lock up the big brick''Ihouse with the jungle in back and the massive oak in front, and take a motel room, with one bed, no swimming pool. • First two weeks with the boys were 'fine. Made their landwiches every night, popped them in the freezer (the sandwiches, not the boys). Drove them away from the television at 11 p.m. (they have, at home, a tiny black and white with' two channels). Turfed them out of a sleep' like the dead at 7 a.m. Supervised breakfast (kids can drink a barrel of 'orange juice in a week). Checked to see they had sandwiches, an apple or banana or pear, wrapped their bottle of pop in their towels, made sure they had their swim suits, and booted 'them out the door in the gen- �eral direction of summer camp. Tried to keep them in clean clothes, no easy feat. . Speaking of feet, they have the happy faculty of playing football or baseball or basketball in the back yard in their bare feet, just after' the lawn sprinkler has been on for two hours, then rush- ing inside, across the rug and going for pee, then rushing back across it to resume ac- tivities. It didn't seem to bother the boys but it played hell with • the rug. I don't think I can get .it cleaned. Might as well throw it out. Their Gran would have killed them. On the spot. But there are so many spots. now, it doesn't seem worth it. Dinner was fairly simple. I didn't fust around like Gran, getting ,a wholesome meal; with 'chicken thighs, taties; salad and dessert. Small , boys love hamburgers an chips. Needless to say, we,,, dined out quite often. Thanks to Ben, • the younger of the two, the back • lawn looks as though several goats had been grazing on it, and, after- eating all the grass,' had. started eating dirt. Ben, to. the amusement of qty neighbors, can play any ,game without .equipment, or opponents. Baseball: he can take a called strike, scowl at the umpire, foul one into the 'stands,• then hit a double and stretch it into a triple, sliding into third base. He can drib- ble a baasketball, flip it o a team-mate, get it back a d drop an easy basket, walkin away, dusting his hands. He's eight, and at seven de- cided his given name, Balind, was not for him, so re -named himself Ben. Quite a kid. Lives in his own world. And pretends to be deaf when you try to call him out of it. As soon as their mother.ar- rived, of course, the boys went ape. Every grand- parent knows about this. Don't ask me why. I'm not a child psychologist. Dear Kim has an over- abundance of talent. She composes music, writes like an angel, is an excellent teacher, and has been stone- cold poor ever since she got married. She's a bit sick of being poor: But she's an ex- 'cellent mother. Sick of being .poor, she, spent most of her time here writing new songs that were going to make a Million, and pumping me to find out how to be a syndicated columnist within a month, at the out- side. And we fought. She is a bristly feminist, and I, as she thinks, a male chauvinist. But we love each other and when the fights got near the blood-letting stage, one of us would grin and declare For at least part of the year, the nation's public lands accommodate more than a million deer, an esti- mated 200,000 aptelope, ' 39,000 bighorn sheep, 152,000 moose, 95,000'elk and 20,000 mountain goats. ©000 ©0 00 000 00010 MOO ©®o B©n00012 unman 000 a®nal©eo 00000 MOM 0000 01700 0017 0010 00000 - 0011. 000 .0000 011100 uO©oo .. n01A00 0_00000.00000 00120 1200 B 00000 000 000 0000 12000 ©©O 12000 0000 LIVING WITH ARTHRITIS by Pahlck Bakor The Arthritis Warning Signs As important as earlydiag- nosis and treatment are to the successful management of an arthritis problem, it is perhaps even more important for every- one 'to be aware of the early warning signs, of the disease. • Most Common'Symptoms The most common sy1`np- toms of arthritisare pain, sore- ness, swelling and redness of the joints, accompanied by some stiffness and Toss of mo- tion. For example, a'knee might appear to he swollen and stiff upon arising in the morning without anv obvious cause, such as a recent injury. • Common In The Morning These signs are most often prevalent in the -mornings, but people with the disease will dis- cover that the stiffness and pain do lessen to a certain ex-. tent' as they move about during' • the course of the day. truce. She took me for about one grand this summer, counting everything, but you can't take it with you, so why not? Hugh is another fettle of kish. He lives in one room in the city, with cooking priv- ileges, but doesn't cook much. When he's home, he is either standing at the fridge, door open, as he used to do when when he 'was 16, or standing over the stove, cooking some infernal but delicious concoction full of almonds, raisins, garlic and whatever, with a pasta base. He's not an old waiter for no- thing. This weekend he brought a •friend, Elena. She's on a Very strict diet, because of allergies, and brings her own food. Not wanting to be be- holden. she bought some Contact • Your°Doctor The symptoms of arthritis are readily identifiable and ;I- any fany of them surface, a physi- cian should he contacted immediately. The Most common symp- toms are: • persistent pain and stiffness after getting up in the Morn- ing: • pain; tenderness or swelling in any joint for which there, is no obvious cause; such as an injury: • a recurrence of these symp- toms, especially if they in volve more than one joint or .joints in different parts of. the body; • tenderness or swelling in a joint, especially if it is accom- panied by fatigue. unexplain- ed exhaustion or weight Toss or a slight fever; and • recurrent or persistent pain and stiffness' in the• neck, lower hack, knees and other joints. It's Very Important!! It cannot he emphasized strongly enough how impor- tant it is that anyone suffering any of these symptonihcontact a physician as early as possible. particularly if the pain is severe. There is no way to prevent :arthritis, but serious or perma- nent damage can he avoided if the treatment process is begun v enough. Patrick Baker is National (*Ui9t- 1111r c'a4on.1 and Public •F.clla'a- tiofi Director of "!'he Arthritis Sorrell. (.0111Me?71.5 n1a 1' be ad- dressed to him care of this news- paper, or by u ritin,g The.4r'thriiis Society at 251) Moor Street Fn.3i, Suite 41)1. Toronto. Ontario 1f4W IE(. FACTORY OUTLETS PHENTEX YARNS Elite 200 2' Orchid 200 359 Chunky 1 AAi LEWSMILLSTORES . 130 Moore, SL WATERLOO 45 Cross 5t. GUELPH food, 1 carne down to the kit- chen yesterday, and she had out for dinner eight huge lambchops. I asked how many were coming to din- ner. She said just the three of us. Two chops each and a couple to share. I turned green. But she and Hugh ate two each and Hugh had another couple for breakfast. I bought some home-made bread and Elena has six' slices. Hugh ate the rest of the loaf, at the same sitting,. except for one slice, which I surreptitiously snagged while they were sitting around belching. Tough diet, eh? Threw them onto a bus to the city this morning, laden down with plastic bags full of corn, beans, blueberries, tomatoes and green onions. All fresh, local stuff. They left me with a refrig- erator full of Elena's diet Soup. (ugh! ), Hugh's dried corn, and a lot of other delicacies from the - health food store that are going straightxinto the garbage. It's a lot of flan, running a summer hotel. With no staff. Next summer, there's going to be no manager, either. 1. Temerity 5. Auger 11 9. Lt:.B.: abbr. 1'2. Neighborhood 13. American inventor S(4. Guevara 15. Get lost!: sitting S17. Closefitting a�jp hat W19. Picslang kpocket 20. Noncommittal gestur6ts 0 21. Embankmep 24. 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