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TROUT LAKE PICNIC —July 30, 2009
Hot! Hot! Hot! We have a "heat wave.‟ and, temperature records dating back more than 50 years were broken across the BC: Vancouver: 34C.- Bella Coola: 40C
Sunny, the day we held our picnic. It‟s good, we got a sheltered picnic area and everybody was on the shade. Nobody wanted to play the bocce, horse-shoes in the sun.. And, everybody moved in slow motion.
“You start to feel weak, a little dizzy and you just want to sit down and do nothing.”
It‟s only when some body started squirting cool water on wrists and other pulse points. You feel refreshed from that stifling heat wave.
Valerie, Orlando, Gina, Deb, Tony, Key, Gabriel, Heather , Mei-lin, Josef, Louise, Olga, JoAnne, Jose, Martha, Blair, Mitch, Helen, Daniel, John, Irma, Ollie, Hailey, Jack and Matthew‟s group from Trout Lake Stroke Recovery.
Olga, JoAnn, Josef and Orlando played Cribbage to beat the heat.
After a magnificent lunch we were serenaded by Mitch, on the French horn and Gina, on electric piano and we had a sing-along as well. We practiced the songs at our meeting as a speech improvement/exercises. We are getting better in singing, too!
Helen‟s son, Daniel, had a portable tent awning where Mitch; showed her Hula dance expertise and we were amazed again, again, again… Daniel got his portable massage chair set-up and; Blair, Martha and Heather got a massage courtesy of Helen‟s son, Daniel.
There‟s wind blowing when the picnic was winding down at 2 PM. I‟m not really complaining because I know that the heat wave won‟t last for too long, anyway. —josesuganob
