Outside Ernies on a friday Night

All i can hope is that my fly was not open and that they were not laughing at me!

Sunset over Beaverdale

I took this picture from the Zehr's parking lot overlooking the 401 and Beaverdale. Just another reason to like Hespeler

Meet Me On The Corner

Look up, way up!

Hanging out of a window at Ernies on a warm summer evening!

Family History

My Grandparents , My Uncle Doug,Aunt Zola and my Dad. All were proud to call Hespeler home

Hot Potato #7

The summer is always a slower time but i still have a few weird thoughts and things to get off my mind so here are some more. Enjoy!

My Lawyer is an idiot, he got me into the Jehovah Witness protection program
4 out of 5 doctors recommend i go see another doctor
Virus is a Latin word meaning"your guess is as good as mine"

As i said before, i never repeat myself
There are no Stupid Questions, just inquisitive idiots
Honk if you like peace and quiet

There is no "Ctrl" button on Chuck Norris's computer...chuck Norris is always in control
Is a stolen Yam a Hot Potato?
I have a new pen name...i call myself BALLPOINT

My wife complains about how long it takes to water the plants..hey my bladder is only so big
I signed up for an Origami class, but it folded
Murphy was an optimist

My ex Mother in law buried 3 husbands and 2 were just taking a nap
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names
The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.


Well that is it for now but remember
I still have a full deck, i just shuffle a little slower now.

Hespeler Rainbow

This picture was taken Monday night on Jamieson Parkway right after a rain shower. We don't see too many of those in Hespeler anymore.

The Speed River Falls on a Sunday afternoon

A nice relaxing place to go on a beautiful Sunday Afternoon. Hespeler at it's finest

Cemetary lights

Walking home from work last night i snapped this picture of some strange lights in the cemetery. I have no idea what they are but they vanished as quickly as they appeared.

From the 40's

Cosmos diner on Queen street was the place to be in the 40's. These 3 young lady's certainly seem to be enjoying themselves.
In this picture Mary Hillis Irene Constant and Betty Garside

Old Hockey teams

1948. From the Dominion woolen news letter. 2 hockey teams. My Dad is on the team on the left and his brother is on the team on the right.

Hespeler Choir

This is from the early 40's. It was a choir put together during the war and all members were from Hespeler. My Mother was in the choir and remembers that they may not have been a great choir but they sure had a lot of fun.

Sunday Afternoon on Cooper Street

Backyard of my youth

This is the backyard of the house that i grew up in on Cooper street. My parents built the house in 1969 beside the old family house on Cooper. This is a picture from the seventies. I remember having to cut the grass at this house as well as the adjoining house on many occasions. I also remember being able to lay out in the sun and enjoy the peace and quiet of the area. But things change and not always for the better. The gap between the two house beyond our backyard is no longer there as the house on the left has built an addition that blocks any view of Hungerford road. If that addition had of been there when i grew up my friends and i would never have been able to hit golf balls with a baseball bat to see how far they would go. Ah! The memories.

The Bad Restaurant

Working in the restaurant business can be interesting and complex. Sometimes humor is needed to keep yourself sane. The following are some signs that you are eating in a bad restaurant.

Walls are covered in framed health code violations
coffee isn't bottomless, but your busboy is
All you here from the kitchen...here kitty, kitty
The cook just washed his hands..in your soup
Waitress asks"would you like ti hear about our selection of half eaten meals"?
They proudly display a collection of stomach pumps
You complain about a dirty fork, your waitress licks it and then gives it back to you
You order the special of the day and the kitchen staff starts laughing
Waiver of liability form inserted in every menu
Instead of handicap parking spaces there are ambulance only parking spaces
You're waitress is nicknamed "Typhoid Mary"


If any of these are present RUN

Tea and Biscuits

From 1960. Just sitting around on a Sunday Morning with my Mom and Grandmothers,Great Uncles and my older Brother. Just a Hespeler gathering. I wonder if people still have time to do that these day's.

A grandfathers guide to Baby Sitting

Any questions?

Thought of the day for April 24

Survival in a rapidly changing world requires adjusting to change and embracing the new opportunities it presents.

Speed river mess

This is a picture of the crap that has been thrown into the speed river. Some people are just idiots.

Thoughts

Sometimes little things bug a person and i am one of those that has a ton of things that bug me. Here are a couple of them.

The Art of the Sandwich! I just want to know when a sandwich was done only in a wrap format. The other day i made a sandwich special at work[i am a restaurant worker after all], it was a Monte Cristo, which is swiss cheese and Ham in between 2 pieces of french toast. Most of the people that ordered it had no idea what it was and wanted to know if they could have it in a wrap! Unbelievable. I mean where are all the good sandwiches gone, the Reuben for one is almost non existent. If it is not a submarine sandwich than they want a wrap. Bring back the sandwich,please.

If it ain't current i don't want to hear it! Now i like modern music and i listen to many of the current acts, but i also listen to the older stuff as well, but lately i am finding that a lot of younger people find anything older than 5 years old to be ancient and no longer valid. One comment i got from an employee of mine was that "old" music was history and nobody likes history at his age!!WHAT.

Anyway that is just a few things on my mind so until later, have a nice day!

The original Cooper Street Relics

My Dad, and in the bottom picture the original Cooper Street Relics, my Mom and her siblings.

Thought of the day for april 7

Joy like the dandelion,
crops up when least expected
and often where not sought

What the hell?

Isn't spring supposed to be here by now, so what the hell is up with this weather?

Saturday night and the leafs win again.

Heck, we don't get to say that much. Anyway here are some more thoughts and drippings from my skull.

A giraffes tongue is 20" long
Bleemus-The film that develops on top of Hot Chocolate when it sits too long
I tried to get in touch with my inner child, but he is not allowed to talk to strangers

You can say what you want about the Amish. Actually that is what i like best about them.
Yesterday is history. tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why we call it the present
Sometimes i feel i am just a target for middle management hostility

Clumsiness..is it catching or dropping?
I am going to live forever or die trying
Never try to baptize a cat.

How can you tell if a woman is happy? Who cares.
Chaos,panic and disorder..my job is done
I suffer occasional delusions of adequacy

My wife told me if i wanted breakfast in bed i could sleep in the kitchen
Why do we say heads up and then duck?
If milli Vanilli fell in the woods would someone else make a noise for them?

My wife has a voice activated coffee maker...she tells me to do it.
People say i am argumentative, yea well i say they are wrong
On the other hand i have 5 fingers.


HAVE A HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE.

St.Patricks day at the Duke and duchess

It was definitely an interesting night,that is for sure

Another picture from Hespeler's past

Stager and Company's furniture store, around 1900

Another old picture

The inside of Sault's barber shop. From around 1900

Rumblings after the storm!

Wow, wasn't that a nice little storm. I haven't seen one like that in a long time. At least it gave me time to work on some things. anyway here are some rumblings that i cam up with.

The future will soon be a thing of the past
"I have never killed a man but i have read many obituary's with great pleasure"--Clarence Darrow
"There is nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure"--Jack E Leonard

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face
I'm confused, no wait..maybe not
I know all the answers but nobody asks me the right questions

There is no place like home, especially if you have no money to go out
Don't go to bed angry, stay up and plot your revenge
If today was the first day of the rest of my life, then what the hell was yesterday


And what would you rather see, A fat guy in a speedo or a fat chick in a bikini? Just asking.

The Move is Complete

Well, i am done moving. Everything is in the new house and me my wife and the dog have settled in and are getting used to the place.To be back living on Cooper Street is a little weird and especially that from one of the bedroom windows i can see the old house that my family called home for roughly 50 years. And why did we choose February to move? I mean moving in the day after a major snow fall was not a perfect idea but we survived. Nothing got broken, which in itself must be some kind of record and the place actually looked livable by 3:00 in the afternoon, again some kind of a record. The beer was cold and the atmosphere warm so now it is time to get back to real life, and who knows how that will turn out. Now as you may have noticed i changed the title of this blog to COOPER STREET RELIC because basically i am a relic of this street and proud of it. That is all for now and beware i have a lot of weird stuff to post in the coming months. Bye Bye!

John Stewart RIP

Sometimes a musician comes along and records something that sticks in your memory for many years and refuses to leave you, that musician to me was John Stewart. Not the Jon Stewart that is the brilliant TV host of A Daily show but the musician who was a part of the Kingston trio and had a very successful solo carear. While he was never a radio staple or an MTV icon his music touched a lot of people and he was an active recording artist up to his death on the weekend. As a matter of fact he was working on a new album at the time.
His best known song was "Daydream Believer", which was of course a big hit for the Monkeys, but he also had a top 10 hit in the 70's with the song "Gold" from one of his biggest albums called 'Bombs Away Dream Babies'. But his best known album is "California Bloodlines" released in 1969 and considered on of the seminal albums in the country/rock/folk field. Yes he combined all three in a now classic album and if you can find it it is well worth the search. But for the beginner listen to his greatest hits collection called "Airdream Believer" which is a re-recording of his best done with artists like Stevie Nicks, Johnny Cash and Rosanne Cash.
The Lonesome picker may be gone but his music will live on. RIP

Hespeler Innovation

Now that is a mobile home that is also practical.

What we need!

Our own police force would go a long way towards curbing some problems

Puff Balls,Smelts and Corn on the Cob

The world changes and many things vanish forever, and sometimes we forget all about them, but occasionally something happens that remind us of what was once familiar to us. The other day that happened to me and so i thought i would jot everything down. So here goes another list of things i miss.

Red Barn Restaurants
Hanging with friends at the fort on old Holiday Inn Drive
The wicked curve that was at the cemetery on Cooper Street
The Fire siren and the 2Am phone calls for my dad when he was a volunteer Fireman in Hespeler
The chocolate bars that my Dad would leave for us after his bowling nights
French fry's with vinegar and salt at the old Arena
Sayvette,Tower of London and other stores in the old mall
Puff Balls,smelts and Corn on the cob dinners
Concord grape doughnuts from Tim hortons
Yellow Submarine shops
Tien Sun Inn and Mothers Pizza
My Moped
Fanta Pop
Max Saltsman-As honest a politician as there ever was
Buns Masters Bakery
Records on Wheels
The Hespeler Textile Festival
Big Jugs of Beer at Frank Vetere's
Hilltop Fish and Chips
The matador Tavern and Nicholsons Tavern

And probably the biggest thing i miss is not being able to get together with family and friends as much as i would like.

January warmups

You know your Grandchildren love you when they not only bless you when you snezze but also help you look for your teeth.
Fiction writing is great, you can make almost anything up---Ivana Trump
McJob--A low paying job that requires little skill and no opportunity for advancement.

Woman, can't live with 'em,ah hell just pass the beer nuts.
Revenge is a dish best served with something the other person is allergic to.
Honesty may be the best policy,but insanity is a better defense

I'm out for a good time all the rest is propaganda
It's always darkest before i open my eyes
Warning: Dates in a calender are closer than they appear

We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart
I wanted to start the year off with a bang but my wife had a headache
The Amazon rain forest produces 20% of the worlds oxygen supply

And remember Never go to bed angry, stay up all night and plot your revenge.

New Years Resolutions that even I can keep

Everybody makes resolutions that wind up being broken by January 3rd. So i made mine on January 3rd and so i am ahead of a lot of people, and here they are.

Gain weight
Stop exercising
Read less
Watch more TV
Procrastinate more. .......Ah to hell with this, i will start again tomorrow

Winter in Hespeler

Looks like a winter wonderland, pure and innocent.