Good Times and Good Friends…

After many forwarded, and some frantic emails along with a few mix-ups with duties and dates,  the “4-of-us” finally  nailed down a time and a place.   Thank goodness for Sue who realized the errors as well as the comedy in our ways and set us all straight.  :-)

“OK everyone before we all get our feathers all flustered  (in other words we don’t want to make this a fluster cluck) — Jenn thought we were doing breakfast this weekend.  We are actually doing breakfast on September 19th which is the weekend after the one coming up.  So…is everyone agreed that we are on for September 19th?????”

Too funny!   Now not only did we have a date … but a new name as well.

The ‘fluster cluck four’

I love these girls… friends from high school and now sharing grandbabies.  How special is that!

Having met for more of a breakfast than a lunch, by the time I got back home it was still early in the day.    The first thing I noticed on entering my door and shooing out the dogs was the blinking of my answering machine.

“Hi Colleen…  couldn’t make it to the lake this weekend.  Are  you up for a coffee or a walk?  Give me a call.”

Are you kidding me??  On such a beautiful summer-like September day… this was perfect.   I quickly called BRD back and set up a time.  Assiniboine park, we decided, would be our destination.

A short time later we were on our way through some of the most beautiful of Winnipeg’s streets to one of the best of our city parks. ..the still green leafed trees dabbled with the  streaming sun,  all windows rolled down.

And then we did what BRD and I do… we walked, and talked and shared our lives.    The day was glorious…. perhaps one of the warmest of the year… hard to believe that September was more than half past.

BRD aptly thought that our photographer
“captured our past nicely behind us”.
That had me chuckle. :-)

With this “Summer in September” happening … the park and the gardens were a happy place to be.   Many smiling faces, both young and old,  enjoyed  the day and shared our path.  Sunshine brings smiles.. of that I am sure.

The two of us  meandered about, following the park paths, eventually ending up at the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden.  Here, many of the blooms were still on display, but every once in a while a lone loose  leaf could be seen drifting down to the earth, a gentle reminder to embrace  the moment, for this too would pass.

At the end of the afternoon and with once more arriving at my back door, my heart felt full to overflowing.   How blessed am I to have such friends and such a day!

“Are we going to be friends forever?” asked Piglet. “Even longer,” Pooh answered.
~A.A. Milne