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make me sadder. Now I’m stuck huts being loaded up and carted
“Livin’ The Dream” here shoveling snow. The sun away fills their hearts with

Senior Tips... may be bright, but it’s cold. My sadness. Snowmobiles, skis,
glasses are fogged up. My over snowshoes, all needing to be
can see it. But I notice another washed hands are cracked and retired until next year. Bugs.
Great Divide – the one between dry. Zoom is ok, but there are Yard work. Mud. Sigh.
the Tiggers and the Eeyores. too many Tiggers on there, keen Perhaps we all have our
to chat and show off crocheted
The Tiggers are perpetually Tigger moments when, in spite
tablecloths. Sigh.
cheerful and grateful. What fun! of the many challenges of the
We get to stay home! The sun is Nothing could show the pandemic, our hearts experience
shining! The birds are singing! difference between these two a lift at the thought of gathering
Zooming is great! Bake dispositions more glaringly with friends (yes, six feet apart)
sourdough bread! Look at that than the first breath of spring. on a sunny afternoon with a

3D puzzle, by golly! Netflix! The Tiggers are out sniffing refreshing beverage in hand,
Read a book! Crochet a the air for the first promise even if it is only to share our
tablecloth! Netflix! Duolingo! complaints.
By Janeen Wagemans of even greater fun ahead.
This is great! Their fingers itch to begin And even the most determined
n spite of the promise of It’s a wonderful thing to their gardening. They are Tigger probably has moments
Ivaccines, which seem at this have positivity in our lives. Of practicing their golf swing. when all that good cheer gets
point as magical and elusive as course! But it can grate on one’s Spring cleaning! Getting the a bit threadbare with talk of
Tinkerbell, we’re not out of the nerves. After a year. Or before lawn furniture out. Washing the variants and “when the next
woods yet! It’s been more than coffee. car! Washing the dog! Prepping virus arrives”. But they’ll
a year since ‘life as we knew it’ the pool! bounce back.
The Eeyores are a whole
was transformed into ‘life as we
different bunch. There is The Eeyores sniff the first Both the Tiggers and the
know it’.
nothing that will rouse them breath of spring and sigh. The Eeyores will find their own way
Much fuss has been made of to cheerfulness. There is no very thought of collecting the forward. And both are probably

the Great Divide between the point. If I can’t hug my friends, long winter’s accumulation most sympathetic with those
believers - those who wear their I might as well not get out of left behind by Fido, the mud trapped in a bubble with a person
masks and keep their distance bed in the morning. Last year puddles, the gloom of spring of the opposite disposition,
- and the non-believers - those at this time, I was in Barbados. sends them into an even deeper something that would indeed be
who don’t believe it unless they It was lovely. The photos just funk. The sight of ice fishing the greatest challenge of all.

Friends Bring Trails to the Schools

for multiple days.
By Jean Pierre Tibi
“We only started announcing
ince schools are not conducting this program when the lockdown
Sany field trips because of COVID was lifted, and already five schools
and the Friends of the Summerstown have signed up, and a few others
Trails (FOTST) cannot offer their are working on dates,” added
usual school hosting program at the Lorraine Clarke. Schools from Long
trails, FOTST decided to bring the Sault, Cornwall, St. Andrews, and
trails to the schools. Alexandria have taken advantage of
this program.
In “normal” years, the Friends host
around 1000 grade school students at “I’m very happy to see that the
the trails. Normally, anywhere from students are getting outdoors and
14 to 16 schools from Cornwall and enjoying the snow. I’m so glad that
the surrounding area visit the trails this service is being offered to our
for half-day outings. youth. It makes me very proud to
be part of the Summerstown trail
The Friends have all the necessary
community,” concluded Vic Leroux,
equipment to gear up a full busload of FOTST President.
students for cross-country skiing and
snowshoeing. “Rather than having all The Summerstown Trails are
this equipment sit idle, we decided located on Summerstown Road, 1.6
to think outside the box and came Photo Submitted km north of exit 804 of the 401. A
up with this drop-off program for retired teacher. a nearby park or area where they can rental program for XC ski equipment,
the schools,” said Lorraine Clarke, The Friends drop-off snowshoes snowshoe. The schools can have the snowshoes, and fat bikes is offered
leader for the program, who is also a to schools for their use if they have snowshoes for one day or keep them on weekends.