THE PROBUS CLUB OF HUNTSVILLE
April, 2020
This month’s General Meeting, Interest Groups
and Special Events have been cancelled
On your behalf, the Management Team has
decided to donate the funds that we would
normally pay All Saints Church for our meetings
to the
Salvation Army Food Drive (March—$200)
and to the
Huntsville Hospital Foundation
(April—$500.)
As many of you know, I love to travel. Almost as much as the travelling, I
love to plan trips. So, in all this free time I now have, I am busy
planning.
Maybe we’ll take a drive across Canada and the USA in one of our Classic
English cars, read Austin Healey. The only problem with them is that they
break down so often that the trunk is full of spares and leaves no room
for luggage!
Maybe we’ll go to Italy or Spain, countries that will be desperate for
tourism, or back to one of our favourite places, South Africa. The
possibilities are endless and exciting to think of in these difficult days.
Of course we may not be able to afford to go beyond our dock the way
our savings are going. But dreams are free, and aren’t we lucky to have a
dock to go to? When this nightmare ends who knows what may be
possible?
Keep well everyone; shop safely and rarely and, in the words of Vera
Lynne, who just turned 103:
“We’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when, but I know
we’ll meet again some sunny day”
Rachel
By Rachel Edney
Bringing spring indoors
First bloom of spring
Muskoka River—end of March
Fairy Lake—April 2 Nature at work
Finally … the $%#* snow
has gone!
David Mason is organizing his New Yorker collection
David Mason working in the maple
Do more of what you love
Mike Morison at the end of March Necessary repairs at the Rogers’
A place to rest after a vigorous hockey
match at the Barkers’
Foster your creativity
Make a photo picture book
Re-arrange furniture, move your pictures
Paint, make pottery, knit, sew, crochet, do your favourite craft
Watch Trudeau at 11:00
Watch religious services on TV
Talk with a friend about a mutual book, movie, TV show
Find and prepare new recipes. Have a dinner party on ZOOM
Bake some special treats
Compare classic movies to re-makes—eg. Magnificent Seven
Watch online concerts
Read or listen to audio tapes
Play pickleball, pool, in your basement
Listen to your CD’s, vinyl records
Do U-tube exercise videos
Learn a new language
Play bridge and other games on the computer
Play board games, cribbage, card games
Phone/ Skype a friend
Clean house/garage/yard
Inventory your closets and clean out!
Make piles: keep, give away, throw away, dump, hazardous waste, electronic waste
Do karaoke
Go for a walk, bike ride
Walk dog more than twice a day
When out walking, wave to people across the street
Go for a drive to somewhere you haven’t been
Play an instrument, learn an instrument
Write a real letter (by snail mail)
Virtual Travel online
Buy a new car
Pearls of Healthy Wisdom from Dr. Oz…
1. Meditate
2. Change your stress eating (no that doesn’t mean more chocolate!)
3. Get moving to maintain your weight
Jean Campbell’s grandson on a social distancing date.
Social distancing in Canada means standing a hockey stick apart
I need to practise social distancing from the refrigerator
The McClellands and their neighbours enjoy “Driveway Happy Hour”
Even the Koehler’s cats know what to do!
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Name the Movie Quiz
Spoiler Alert:
The answers are on the last page!
Ignore the words under the pictures in # 2 and #4
Remember this weather? It wasn’t that
long ago!
Since real travel is out of the question just now and our regular Armchair Traveler meetings have been postponed, we would like to introduce a printed version of Armchair Traveler. Here are some photographs of Ann and Bill Rogers’ visit to Newfoundland and Labrador.
Please send us your pictures (no more than seven) of travels you would like to share.
Table lands at Gros Morne National Park—a UNESCO World Heritage SiteThe earth’s mantle which is nor-mally found beneath the earth’s crust
Jelly bean houses in St. John’s
Arches Provincial Park carved by years of tidal sea activity
Sod houses at L’Anse aux
Meadows built in the same
style as Greenland and Iceland over
1000 years ago
Colourful houses that enable sailors to find
their way home during inclement weather
St. John’s Harbour from Signal Hill
crazy
I went to the LCBO today to get a 2
week liquor supply. It’s the 3rd time this week.
We are looking into a possible trip to Niagara on the Lake and the
Shaw Festival as well as a visit to a winery.
Price estimate is $305—$365 per person which includes: theatre
tickets, wine tour at Trius, dinner, hotel, and gas for driver if
carpooling.
We need to know how many people would be interested before we
can get tickets.
Please let us know if you are interested. (No money collected at this time)
Contact: Barbara Rose
The Shaw Festival Fall 2020
Name the Movie Quiz Answers
1. Titanic, 2. North by Northwest, 3.The Man Who Would be King, 4. Twelve Angry Men, 5. Pillow Talk, 6. Planet of the Apes, 7. The Silence of the Lambs, 8. Sleepless in Seattle, 9. Papillon, 10. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Now... really challenge yourselves—can you name the actors?
P.S. Please excuse the formatting. It morphed into something different when changing from WORD to
Publisher to PDF
A donation was sent to the Huntsville Hospital in memory
of long time member Ann Hough.
Donations will also be sent to the charity of choice of Gail Ivory Brown and Eve Adkins who both recently passed
away.
Cards of condolence were sent to the families.
Contact: Mary Ray Ward