WILLIAMSDALE: Snowmobile parties were once a thing

Well, good morning everyone and I suppose by now everyone’s thoughts have turned to Christmas.

I hope we don’t get too much snow, as it makes travelling so difficult. It doesn’t seem to me as if the snowmobiles are as popular as they used to be. Wendell and I had two snowmobiles when the family was younger and everyone had lots of fun driving them.

Sometimes we had snowmobile parties and the children would invite several of their friends for the evening. After they had played all evening, we would invite everyone to come and enjoy hot dogs and hot cocoa. They always thought that was a great treat.

Rev. Morris Mills preached a very inspiring message at the Millvale United Baptist Church in Millvale on Sunday Morning. Rev. Morris of Amherst and Captain Max Snow of Springhill having been taking the services in the Millvale Baptist Church, while they are looking for a full time Pastor for the Church Field.

Wayne and Karma Reid of Pugwash were here on Saturday helping Wendy to put up the Christmas tree and other decorations. They did a lovely job, and they even decorated the old Williamsdale School House, that is right beside our lane.

Mary Esther Smith and Linda Stewart attended a pulpit committee meeting one day recently, which was held in Wentworth. The churches are searching for a pastor and we have been very fortunate in having two pastors who are filling in, to help us out.

Wendell and I got a wonderful surprise one afternoon recently. Gloria Nix of Collingwood, and her sister Beverly Hunter of Springhill phoned to say that they were coming here for a visit. Well they arrived, both carrying huge trays of many kinds of delectable Christmas goodies and they sat and visited with us for over an hour.

What a lovely surprise because we don’t get a lot of company and we enjoyed it very much.

Margo and Greg Patriquin, Logan and Lexie of Wyvern, were visiting on Sunday afternoon, with Mervyn and Mary Esther Smith and Blaine Smith.

Wendell and I just got a lovely phone call from one of our grandsons, Matthew Reid of Ottawa, Ontario. When Matthew was home on vacation last summer, he recorded a goodly number of the verses that I recite and he says he is going to have them recorded on a tape for me, so they won’t get lost, over the years. I always liked to learn poems and recite them when I was young and I still do that if I see something that really clicks in my brain. When I was a student in school that was one of my favourite subjects.

Supper visitors on Sunday afternoon, with Mervyn and Mary Esther Smith and Blaine Smith were, Jeanne Knol of Oxford and her family, Quinn, Makenna, Holly, and Logan.

Well folks, that is all the news from our little community, but I wish everyone a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!

Quote: “Careful with fire, is good advice we know; careful with words, is 10 times doubly so!

Margaret Reid writes for the Williamsdale area for the Amherst News