Torrance, Ontario. 14 April, 1996
Sunday morning I go to Church with Marg and Raymond. It is a nice feeling to go to church. It has been a long while that I have been to church. For lunch we have my World Famous corn chowder. Marg makes the biscuits. Marg and I have two helpings. There is a lot of chowder left. After lunch Raymond and I go to Gravenhurst to do some laundry and gas the Flea .
While the laundry is being done Raymond and I take the Flea to be gassed up and then we have a coffee at Tim Hortons. Why is it no matter where you go, all Tim Horton's look the same. Gravenhurst is a really nice town. Today it is nice and sunny and the temperatures are starting to get warm. I am telling Raymond how busy the roads seem to be in Ontario. We are in Cottage Country and a lot of folks from Toronto come to their cottages on the weekend. This must be true, as more traffic seems to be heading back to Toronto than heading North.
After the laundry is done, we head back to Torrance. I meet Raymond’s sister Evelyn. I met Lucas and Ellie the day before. I then take a nap, which Roxy and Barney enjoy, as they have me for company. After I get up it is nearly suppertime. Tonight it is the roast beef and all the trimmings.
After supper the phone rings and it is a chap I met at Church earlier in the day. He wanted to know something about Antigonish. I have a nice chat with him and then join Marg and Raymond in the living room. We watch a movie on TV, Captive Heart: The James Mink Story.
It is about James Mink who is a freed black man in Canada and has a successful livery business. He enjoys a happy marriage and has a beautiful daughter Mary. An match is arranged with an American businessman, but when he takes his new wife across the border his true character emerges - he sells her into slavery. James and Elizabeth must go to Virginia to rescue their daughter. The movie has a happy ending and stars Louis Gossett Jr. After the movie Raymond and I sit up and have a yarn about this and that as this will be the last time we visit for awhile. Tomrorow Roxy, Barney and I continue on our journey.
