Happy Day everyone! While the Covid rages on here and everywhere, it is easy to get caught up in all the hullabaloo of this mess! Brain Fog often is in my mind and I suspect many people. Although it is the day of the Greatest Spectacle in Racing, the Race like no other, it is time for me to reflect on Memory.
Hi folks, Catfish Chris here and as you know there is not much to report on the border opening. As of now, many people who have no control in the US are saying the border will open on June 22, but that is nothing but them running their mouths. From what we surmise, the border may ease up in late summer and early fall. So unless a miracle happens, we don’t think we will see Ontario again until 2022.
Please remember to take a moment for Memorial day, we have so much freedom, but need to give our thanks to the people who had their lives taken while serving our country actually providing us our freedoms! Simply said, Freedom does NOT come free, so I urge you to give thanks. In 2020, I spent time making music for those who have fallen, and in 2021 I will be doing the same in the Rolette, North Dakota Memorial day ceremony. In addition, Ray Trottier, a 7th grade Trumpet player in our Band, will be traveling with the Belcourt VFW and performing Taps, thank you Ray and to everyone thanking those who gave themselves for our freedom!
Memories develop for all of us and for me watching Grandpa get his Indy car list ready and sit near the radio listening to AJ Foyt, Gordon Johncock and the boys race for gold was great, well before TV and all the Hoopla shit that overshadows so much today. Later it was drinking a few Pabst while listening to the Race with my brother and in the last years before Covid it was either at Happy Camp or traveling to the great north with Larry. I remember a few years back I dedicated a song, Alberta Bound, for my buddy Shadow on WPR Simply Folk radio show and heard the host Stephanie Elkins play that song for Shadow while Larry and I were on the north shore of Lake Superior, my time just flies doesn’t it?
So many memories and in the past years made at Happy Camp. Seems like eons ago, but we can only hope to make new memories not soon enough. But for 2021, there again will be no Bear hunt, but the Moose crew’s will be in full force in late September, man I wish we could be there for those days, those were memories!
So for now, we will all make memories today and everyday, I hope all of yours are special and in time you find your way to Happy Camp, make memories and also share a few with us. Until then, take care and keep in touch!