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