SUMMER GHOSTS AND AUTUMN HARVESTS

This summer season, while terribly hot and humid (at least for me), Suzanne and I spent a lot of time pursuing antiques and related art pieces. It's our retirement business, and it's been in the preparation stage since the late 1980's, shortly after first son Andrew was born. The idea was that when Suzanne retires from teaching, our antique trade will be humming along…..with all the smoothness one expects of a multi-decade enterprise. This year, as Suzanne gets ever closer to her new reality, we were forced to get serious about the buy-sell thing, and spent many hours on the road, and scouring the shops we found along the way, looking for interesting vintage pieces. It was a successful haul, and I enjoyed our time together. And we had some neat experiences out and around. Not too many were of the ghostly kind but there were spirit-enhanced moments I will explain later. We have had many haunted antiques in the past, and I think we may have found a few more over the summer. I'll share these stories this fall. But just being out there, wandering the wonderful pathways through our beautiful province, was spirited in the most pleasant, nostalgic way. I haven't felt this way about the antique business since I began, way back in the late 1970's; when every hunt, every trip was enthralling and exciting. It was a great rekindling. I found some old ghosts I'd forgotten…..and they were my own from days gone by. I'd forgotten, you see, just how important it is to Suzanne and I, to protect the past, as we have done for so many, many years now. We bask in the warmth of antiques with provenance. And it can get pretty animated. I'll explain more about this in future blog entries. Thanks for joining me. Stay tuned for a harvest of spirited tales upcoming in October.