I had a busy week starting off on Wednesday when my cousins Ramona Dunahee from Brinston, Ont. and her daughter Angela from Ottawa and Freda Dupuis from Metcalfe came for . . .

a visit for a few days. My other cousin Heather Boyd from Otter Lake and my aunt Betty Mayhew came that same night and had supper with all of us. We got to enjoy my first picking of potatoes and beans out of my garden. I also served barbeque chicken with rice and corn fritters with strawberry rhubarb pie for dessert.

We enjoyed chatting and reminiscing and looking at a few family pictures. On Thursday, we picked zucchini and made two large cookie sheets of zucchini fingers and had those for lunch. Ramona had picked me up a couple of dozen of corn from somewhere on the other side of Ottawa and oh my gosh was it ever good. It was sweet and juicy and one cob of corn actually filled you.

We played very many games one of them being sequence, the game of sticks, Charades, Petro, LRC, WHAT, and Seniors Moments. Seniors Moments is funny, especially for those of us who are over 50 and having memory lapses. We all took turns winning and losing and we all had a great time. It was so nice to have Angela here because she hasn’t been here since she was a teenager. It’s great getting together again.

They had to leave on Friday to go back and left about noon. Then my friend Sharon Crawford called and said she was coming up for a visit and to come and pick up her big pot that I had borrowed. I had made a bunch of stuffed green peppers that afternoon and Sharon and I had that for supper and I froze the rest.

The next morning I left to go to Port Carling, Ont. to visit my grandchildren and to pick up Shelley so she could come and visit for a week. I brought them some cucumbers and one ripe tomato from my garden. Carl and the boys are coming next weekend to pick Shelley up so I will have lots of veggies to send back with them next week.

The zucchini are growing like crazy but the cukes are very slow. When those cherry tomatoes start I will have tons of them but for now I’m only getting a few here and there.

I would like to wish the following people a very happy birthday: Elizabeth Lepack on Aug. 14, Benjamin Kluke on Aug. 15, Wayne Brown on Aug. 16, Sharon Larivière on Aug. 17, and to Joseph Germain on Aug. 18.

I would also like to send out some happy anniversary wishes to Linda and Steve Romain on Aug. 15, Cindy and Champ Corriveau on Aug. 16, Christina and Phil Dubeau on Aug. 20 and Pat and Carol Kavanagh on Aug. 19.

I would like to send out my deepest sympathies to the family of Bertha Holland, nee Ranger who passed away on Aug. 8. We will always remember her wonderful smile and gentle disposition.