Saturday, June 23, 2012 THE NEW WALK THE SAME TALK

Have a little memory from this morning, when Mac said as he was getting dressed, I seem to remember lots of people at a really nice place, I said are you thinking of Pine Beach and your old gang from St. Henri...No I just remembered when I was in the bathroom washing said Mac, remember the kids would look out the bathroom window to see something.  o.k. I think you are remembering Seigniory Park Country Club,  the kids would wake up and rush to stand on the toilet seat and look out the bathroom window to see if the flag was up at the club...if it was, yay, time to go for swimming.  Am i right Mac...  That's it, you are, wasn't that fun for he kids, but then it all had to stop, yes I reminded him because the water table under the pool was too high so the pool was cracking.  That sure was a sad day, when they couldn't go to the club.    But we all have some fond memories and even some movies - must look at them again I said. 

But that memory faded and getting on with the day we went to see our grandson Chris and cngratulate him for graduating from Concordia...while there we took a new walk, and this time we went toward pine Beach on the lakeshore..this was a new walk, but the same talk, Mac said 'we got married many years ago right , it's funny I have a real blank after that but we are back together that's good.  I said yes and here we are walking to where we met, pine beach - do you remember pine beach...hmmm yes sort of ...well i dropped that subject as we were enjoying the walk, and no use pushing for memories we were enjoying walking - sitting in shaded areas and enjoying the beautiful lake st. louis scenery..but when we returned we went over all that again with our son-in-law Bill, I seemed to relive it all in my minds eye...seeing the young Mac with his crew cut hair, coming in to kings Restauant opposite pine Beach, talking and walking with a kind of swagger bringing American cigarettes to all his buddies and then meeting Marge, my friend and i.  and then Mac said in his own 18 year old smarty way...who are these bags...  Mac interjected o.k. I was a cocky kid and I was really bold...or something like that.  i said well you changed when you rescued me from having to walk around with a ripped bathingsuit (right over my backside too)  then we laughted remembering, Mac at 18, driving me back along Lakeshore rd. on his bike - I was only 15...well it was a new walk, but the same old fun talk.  Now it's pillowtime talk, g'nite