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In our living room we have a vase with yellow and yellow-orange flowers reminding us of the moments my wife Jo-Anne and I were standing at Pleasant Lane of Pleasant Manor watching the impressive parade of colourfully decorated trucks, pickups, vans and tractors with equally colourful attachments going by.
A thought of gratitude entered my mind that all this was done to give pleasure to others, and to us. Here follows the main reason for my writing this:
A beautifully decorated piece of machinery stopped, and a young lady ran out and gave me a bouquet of flowers and walked back again. I can't remember if she or I said anything but I was happy to have been standing there. And thinking now about Robert Frost and the last line of his poem, The Road Not Taken, that "standing there has made all the difference."
Thanks to all who made this event possible and wishing all a Merry Christmas.
Well done and please accept my deep appreciation for all the hard work and goodwill extended to all of us at Pleasant Manor.
Tom Abma
Niagara-on-the-Lake
