-Whtby Free Pressé M edyfwq ýq ~ 1,9P~ PAGE SEVEN KerrpowedV Day by day we don't notice growing older. But one grey hair at a time creeps up on you. Then, before you know it, kerrpow! This past weekend was a kerrpow! Saturday night, I (we) had volunteered to babysit. (Two grandchildren, four years old and 14 months old. We also have a daughter, Erin, seven. So Sunday 1 amn alone. Or as alone as one can be with four bidren (a neighbour's child came to visit for the second viewing of the rented movie.) Sunday elleven aye emm, walking alone in the early spring sunshine, pushing a stroller around the cars parked to block the sidewalks, yelling at the bicycle set to not get too far ahead, holding the dog on leash, responding to the four-year-old's grip. Already the morning had been as long as the last sentence. I arn alone because certain people prefer to get up at five---- thirty on Sunday to go to work. Imagine. Where was I? Oh, yeah. Walking. Trying not to let the dog leash get tangled around the stroller and ÀL David's legs. A car stops. A neighbour rolîs down the car window. "Did I miss something over the winter,"1 he says, pointing at the stroiler. "Whadda ya mean?" I reply. "Well, that. Haven't seen you ail winter. Thought we might have missed some important news."y "Wat? Oh, you thought.. ha, ha... grandchil- dren," I repiy. "Grandchildren. It's like renting a movie. They go back after you rewind them." "Oh. Well. The other'd made more interesting news!" "Maybe at your place it would've." He speeds off. Looking after a 14-month-oid can be . . interest- ing. The same infant who could not walk three steps two weeks ago can now« spring from kitchen to living rooni and back in 10 seconds fiat. And slide back- wards downstairs on his belly at 2.3 seconds. Laugh- ing. I won't even mention about his gripping the spoon in his teeth and shaking it like a hound shakin' a stick, again iaughing ail the time. Naw. Sounds too cute, wouid likeiy lose something in translation. wrn'riw DUNLOFS WELCOMED HOME, MARCI 9 15 Neither would we mention how he fails asieep on Riding a fire truck at the corner of Brock and Dundas streetsHre on9 cBthJea5P rny-chest after I rescue him from a bowl of Meow Mix Lamirande, Bill Hanna (Dunlop Tire officiai), Bus Gagnon (standing), Gord Myles and Tom on the floor b h ergrtr eidm o otl O'Connor. Hundreds turned out to greet the world hockey champions. his mother about that one. htymhvpoo Too pat, too, wouid be to talk about doing a jigsaw10EARAG puzle it Daid 4)-- and finding he needs from the Wednesday, March 30, 1983 edition of the Copnnthl.Iv ee engood at jigsaw WhtyMiatDdsS.PR S company, not heiplI'veDneyer be.nand Thickson Rd. is ceiebrating its l4th anniversary. puzzls, bt I'e neer fit od dong oe beore.* A intaio drw wil b 1heldat-Hnry tree Hig Schoh o Apr1414 But we are guaranteed that the next Prime I ni o everal as Minster of this country will be a babyboomer. * TordifT Brothers' furniture store in Brookhin burned to the ground on March 20. * he Methodist church at Myrtie was closed hast Sunday to prevent the spread of measies What a thought. Hold it for maybe a haf a minute. ith Communty 'flere. Just try not to inhale. L intecmuiy