2009 Yesterday Was ........................................................


Yesterday was the 41st anniversary of the Huttons' westward migration to Canada. Reflecting on how little or how much (or how little) has been done by the participants in that time is perhaps not a good idea.

But oh so much has happened hasn't it! Four decades of history. Eight family members have died! Can anybody name them all? Reginald William Batten; Ann Horrocks; Cyril Horrocks; Harold Beveridge; Rena Horrocks; Herbert Ralph Ward-Eversley; Carol Freda Batten and Sherri Vanya Fuller. Faces fading, details blurring, you dear readers will, no doubt have trouble remembering just who they all were. All of them helped produce the next generation and indirectly the one after that.


Yesterday was also my 50th wedding anniversary. Commenting on that fact would be a little tricky. 1959 - 2009. That means I married at 20! That means I'm 70. Decades of ..... aren't humans funny little creatures?

So, whither the blog? Sometimes I wonder why I write it. Who in the family reads it? Mitchell for sure. Vivian perhaps, out of curiosity. Kim did (still does?). Martin, I'm not sure. The four grandchildren, probably not (yet?). Andrea? Andrea's very busy I think.

I wander back and read it here and there, from time to time and smile about what I've written. I write because I enjoy writing and it is perhaps good to order ones thoughts. It's a struggle to tell the truth sometimes or at least not to lie. Hindsight tells us we should have done diffently or done better or perhaps not done at all. But "back then" we were different people in different times. Little people in a big world.

So, what of those eight souls mentioned above? Maybe eight short entries about who they were. A few have had coverage already - repeating oneself is the nightmare of writers of memoirs I don't doubt.

Anyway, April 4th 2009 has been and gone ........................... I thought it deserved mention - it was/has been a world altering day for quite a few people, eight are "here" because of it. Eight! There's a coincidence.

Have a good April 5th folks.