Tuesday, May 28, 2024
My Aunt Ruth was a wonderful person as well as my Uncle Keith, they treated me just like I was one of their children, I spent more than several summers visiting their home for three weeks at a time. My cousin Andrea and I were the same age. I had the most wonderful time, hanging out at their home, playing board games for hours, packing picnic lunches almost daily and going for long walks often to visit Andrea's Grandma (Aunt Ruth's mom) who lived up the road or going the other way to visit our grandpa who was my mom's (Melva) and Uncle Keith's dad. We would make grandpa a cake and ice it, icing all over the place and Aunt Ruth never complained, she would jut say clean up your mess. She took us to the Peterborough Exhibition every year, we spent a lot of time at their cottage which was unbelievable, it was a magical place, there is so many memories of the lake but it would take me a year to list them all. These memories are still as clear as a bell in my mind, when we got older our time together was less but the memories are so ingrained in my childhood and it made my childhood so unforgettable and wonderful. I don't ever remember Aunt Ruth getting harsh with us even though we probably deserved it. She was the most wonderful cook I can still taste her pies and the green beans that she picked out of her garden all her food was amazing. The years that I spent with my Aunt Ruth, Uncle Keith, Andrea, Judy and Steve have impacted my life, I now have my own cabin on a lake which I do not think I would of inspired to have it were not for those amazing times that I spent at Buckhorn Lake and Lakehurst. Aunt Ruth will be dearly missed by so many people but no one can take the wonderful memories away. Miss and Love you Aunt Ruth. Corinne
