Quieter and Not so Rocky, Black Beauty, Entertaining Evening

I woke up on Monday, Apr. 16^th to the sound of stillness The Suite wasn’t rocking anymore. How nice that those over-powering winds from the past two days had died down. Maybe there will soon be relief from the precipitation too. It was still raining when Bill took Clemson out for his morning piddle but at least the ice and snow had completely melted and the parking lot was just wet and ‘puddly’.

A dry day to drive to Mt. Brydges

We had a tea and coffee together and Bill had a bowl of cereal while we read some posts. His appointment was for 8 o’clock at Hi-Tech, which is across the city on Trafalgar St. He left around 7:25. I finished reading and drinking my tea before getting out of my sweats and dressed for the day. What to eat, what to eat. I don’t usually cook bacon and eggs unless we are eating together.

Sold?? Oh-oh, I wondered if my daughter had been in earlier!!!

Some after effects from the ice and wind storm

Flooding was mostly retained to the creek and river areas
Thank goodness!

At 9, Bill called and was on his way home already. The safety check (needed for our buy-out process) was done with no issues but the tires that were supposed to come in this morning, did not arrive. Bummer. So, Dan will call when they arrive and if I have to take the truck over when Bill is working tomorrow, we’ll get them done then. When my sweetie got back, we made another cuppa and I had a banana with yogourt and wheat germ.

These guys traveled the winter with us,
Too bad they were dead, they didn't enjoy the trip!

We had an empty propane tank so Bill put it in the truck and drove up to CanAm’s main tank for a refill. How nice that the rain has stopped for a change! The rest of the morning went pretty quietly for me and Clemmy. I got myself into another book, this one is called Void Moon by Michael Connelly. It is a different theme than his usual ones but it has started out interesting. I thought it was comical that Deb just finished Sue Grafton’s R is for Ricochet when I did! Many rv’ers are avid readers too.

Supervising fro the best seat in the house

Al, one of the techs inside, loaned Bill a handy tool to remove the bezels from our overhead lights. During the winter, when he removed all the rest to get the flies out, the 4 over our sink would not budge. This tool worked like a charm! I should have taken a picture of it. Bill climbed up on the island and had them off, eww, and replaced, as clean and shiny as new. I supervised from my recliner. Bill made himself a sandwich and I grabbed a cheese stick for the drive to Mt. Brydges.

The Tour bus

the Scott Woods band
Five members shown here

We arrived shortly before 1 and the cute service guy who took our keys said “That’s a nice truck!” Well, that is twice we’ve been told that today, once earlier by our GM mechanic. We know, we made the right decision! Stopping in to see Al Fierra, within mere minutes we had signed paperwork to buy Black Beauty. This is such a good move and looking back through our process, we are pleased that it came to this. By 1:30 we were on our way home to the Suite.

This is their 5th member of the band
Leo is only 13 years old and is a very talented little fellow
Step Dance Champion and plays fiddle, piano and sings as well
Such a wonderful performer with a terrific sense of humour

Now the day really got lazy. We read, watched some tv and got out for short walks with the pooch. For supper, we made it simple and had mushroom soup and a sandwich for Bill. I had mine with a few Saltines. We were cleaned up by 5 as we had a date! A fellow rv’er and friend, ScottWoods, is a Canadian Fiddle Champion. From the age of 4, Scott followed in his talented family footsteps. (you can check him out also on Facebook and YouTube)

Meet the band from left to right
Top - Scott Woods, Steve Piticco
Centre - Bill Carruthers and Pete Sisk
Bottom - Kendra Norris (Scott's sister) and Leo Stock

Bill was chatting with him on Messenger Sunday and we received a complimentary invite to his show last night in London. Scott and his sister, Kendra, and the band have just nicely began a new tour called Fiddling up a Storm. We’ve never seen them perform so were keen to see them at the Victory Branch Legion. We arrived early to get good seats and they were prime. Front row, yay! We’ve never been to a fiddle concert before but my oh my, they were fantastic!

We were entertained from beginning to end
Kendra has an alias - Cousin Kendra Pearl?
Leo sang "I'm little but I'm loud" and warmed our hearts
Scott, the story teller reads a touching poem
Leo, doesn't stand still for long but we caught this finale pose
Steve on guitar obviously loves his job
Special guest - Marie Bottrell has a lovely powerful voice

We purchased a couple of cd’s, they had 23 to choose from, and got them signed. How nice to personally know the *star*. Thank you, Scott, for the invitation! We will definitely come and see you again when you are in our area. 

Rolling out the Barrel

It is important to note that many of these performances are done for charity, to aide churches and other community service groups. This was a real treat for us to see a group of 6 performers having such a fun time on stage. They truly love what they do. Young Leo is home schooled and with tapes from Mom at home, he dutifully keeps up with his studies. A comical query from him to his band mates as they drive down the road "Is this a snow day?"

Not only does Scott sing and perform by playing the fiddle
He plays the fiddle while 'performing'. Never missed a beat!

We arrived home around 9:30 and watched a bit of tv until bedtime at 11. This was a good day followed by a wonderful evening. I hope yours was a good one too!

Having a nice chat with Scott before we left

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