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Yes, crappy time of year to be sick when there's so much to do and so many family activities planned.

In kind of personally happy news, I have been invited to go to Windsor, home town of my beloved big guy, to spend Dec 21-24 with his family, his 3 younger sisters still live there. We've been together for 4 years and I have never met them. I'm kind of excited. In one of those strange twists, two of his sisters have the same names as two of my Mom's sisters.
 
Correction in that 20 years ago, coming home from Arizona with my BFF, we may have crossed sleepily at Detroit about midnight before dear M drove all night across the 401 to home. The cat and I dozed.
 
I was born at Windsor hospital as we lived in Puce

We moved to London within a year. But went back to Windsor frequently.

I affectionately refer to it as the armpit of ontario.

Ps, if you want to get a room quickly. Have a pool of blood under your wheelchair.

Thankful for kind folks who got staff and staff responded quickly
 
Back in the days before air conditioning the summers were rough. We would go and hang out by the lake. I was so not used to it.

At easter though. It would be lovely when we had a ton of snow and they had none.

Still have cousins there, though the next generation up have all died.
 
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Snow at Easter just sounds weird to this west coast girl. I don’t remember a single time seeing snow at Easter (I guess it makes hiding Easter eggs in the back yard easy but how are kids supposed to find them? That’s just mean lol) Rain, highly possible, but snow would signal Armageddon (Snowmageddon happens every time we get a big - or even small — unexpected dump and nobody knows how to drive in it - it’s a recycled headline). Usually it’s mild at Easter, cherry blossoms out, daffodils in bloom, sometimes summer weather depending on when it lands. If we get snow for Easter 2026 I’ll freak out lol. With climate change it’ll probably happen one of these years, soonish.

Unless it’s late season skiing at Whistler or Mt. Washington (maybe Grouse and Cypress in North Vancouver) but I’ve never been to those places at Easter.
 
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Good morning, and happy Saturday! A skier injured, snow on Easter reflections, Windsor's pro and con, Jayne's health, and all the thoughts of today meet us at the Coffee Cart, where we discuss them over tea and coffee. Discussion sounds promising. Along with the coffee and tea, the Baker has supplied us with more fresh cookies for the day, a surprise of plum pudding, and some fresh (?) fruitcake. The tea water i is hot, coffee is freshbrewed, and sweets are delightfully warm. All is ready, everybody is welcome! Come join in!

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BetteTheRed said:
I have never been to Windsor. I'm sure it's at least warmer and less snowy than here?
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JayneWonders said:
I affectionately refer to it as the armpit of ontario.
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chansen said:
What I've heard wouldn't exactly make a great tourism ad.
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Basically, all of these are true. I have spent a bit of time down there between it being the best place to cross for Detroit airport and my company having an office there (oh, and we toured the university when Little M was looking at post-secondary options). Yeah, not exactly a tourist mecca and I would not go down there just for kicks, though the riverfront isn't terrible. And, yes, once you get past my area (London-Strathroy) you're kind of out of the Lake Huron snowbelt so winter tends to be a bit less harsh down that way.
 
Whenever I drive around southwestern Ontario, the one thing that strikes me is the religious billboards, generally anti-abortion. Those die down closer to the GTA. Not sure if that's still the case.
 
Life is so flawed ... like the Merry Wives of that place ... are they too phantoms? They be demonizing ... it is the essence of automation and us having nothing to do ...
 
chansen said:
Whenever I drive around southwestern Ontario, the one thing that strikes me is the religious billboards, generally anti-abortion. Those die down closer to the GTA. Not sure if that's still the case.
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I have not seen any of those in a longtime, at least near 401. Back highways in Huron and Perth, yes, I know a couple or did. It's been a while since I have had to drive up that way.
 
I was released at 5am, woke my spouse up and home by 6am

My body had settled down at 2am.

Seems that there was an infection that had been growing and was quite involved.

So combination of typical surgery (turbt) exasperated by blood thinners and out of control infection.

Im at home, curled up on couch. Tired.

Love me some treats without calories though. Thanks redbaron
 
KayTheCurler said:
I have been to Windsor - explored the castle, of course. It is the place I think of when that name comes up. So many places using the name for somewhere else!
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LOL. Given I live in London and sometimes have to explain which London that is when talking to non-Ontarians (even Canadians outside Ontario don't always realize we exist), I totally understand this. To be honest, I have never been to the UK Windsor. Was not on the itinerary for the tour of the UK we took.
 
KayTheCurler said:
Christmas tine is a particularly bad time to need health care.
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It can also be a crazy time in health care. We actually have a vacation blackout for field staff over the holidays. A lot of hospital patients want to be home for the holidays and hospitals are often short staffed so are happy to see them off. And some of those are on oxygen so our offices tend to get a big wave of both new referrals and existing patients coming home from hospital right around now through to past Christmas.
 
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