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Message from the CHAIR

musings from my man cave

RON SCHELL ey, this is Ron writing from my garage – or Hardware guys and girls) had a fun time – as I’m
Schell Home Hardware Hmy Man Cave as it’s now called. Now, in sure you all do at your getaways. Now it was
Building Centre, a Man Cave you have to have some tools and great seeing my good friend Maryanne although
stuff plus a project on the go. Currently mine
she had a voice problem and could barely talk
Stouffville, ON
is staining a door for the cottage but you really but she did her best as always. I did hear that
should be working on something that will take her husband wasn’t complaining (she’s gonna
a while; you want to make it look like you’re kill me for this).
doing something but not really. Windows are I’ve got my latest National Geographic
important to pretend to be working on. When (March 2019) entitled “We are not alone”. In
the buds come over, you stop and get more the article, it claims that they spend billions of
chairs out. Love my Man Cave. dollars to hopefully find intelligent life forms
You know you’re older when you’re invited on other planets; why not look for the not so
to an 80th birthday party on a Sunday at 3 p.m. intelligent ones as they might be easier to find.
(what happened to Saturday at 8 p.m. until Intelligent life forms might look at Earth and
whenever?) and you’re looking say, “Uh, oh. Trump, Trudeau, May, Putin... I ain’t
"I learned last year forward to it; because the person going there, no way!”

that 61 years old is is not your aunt or uncle, they are The reason that I bring up the words “we
actually a friend. Party on, baby! are not alone” is the fact that the LBMAO
the average age of I learned last year that 61 years provides many ways of not being alone. It
a building supply old is the average age of a building was a cold, lonely winter but curling with Skip
supply dealer and I’m 61 at least and his friends, golf with Skip and his friends,
dealer...I will be this year. I will be above average snowmobiling with Skip and his friends, etc.
above average." – you figure it out. Five out of four helped us to get through it. Looking forward to
people don’t understand fractions. the warmer days of spring, summer and fall.
Tough, tough winter. Sled day
was great. The snow was unbelievable – the
drift on the roadway was higher than Dave
Campbell and then some. Nothing better than
-20°C when you’re doing 90 km/hr. It feels like
-40°C, which by the way is -40°F (Trump land
pay attention) which no matter what is cold
but it’s a dry cold. If you want to mess with an
American, tell them that because of the metric
system we have gone to 10 hours per day. They
will actually believe you.
Speaking of down south, we (the Home

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