"I wish you in Halifax-"--an expression I never forgot!

I read the above this morning---It is true isn't it?-We are supposed to have rain to-day--  It looks like it, but--it isn't falling yet. 

Just now, in the kitchen, in front of the dishwasher , was an enormous black spider--a huge thing, with legs that went up, taller than the spider--It seemed like it was 2 inches across-- Himself  took the bug zapper and got him--This is about the 4th one I have seen in the house--and if you aren't quick to get it, it  jumps as it moves to get away from you-Have any of you had these things in your house?------It was close to a register--might've come up the register from the basement---Lord love a Duck!

I came home from downtown yesterday, and sitting in the garbage, all folded up, was the replica of "Queen Elizabeth"---- I picked her up and unfolded her--- and carried her into the house.

"Why is Queen Elizabeth in the garbage?"-I asked Himself. "Well," he replied, "She has passed , so I thought you didn't want her anymore."

"No", I told him. "She is even more valuable now, as she has passed--gone."----  and then, I heard myself going on and on----- "Why would you throw her out?--She wasn't yours-She is mine."----and it seemed like I could never stop telling Himself  to not throw out anything before asking----as I tried to tape her together again-- The ranting and raving went on and on-- ---I was close to tears----

Anyway, my life-size  Queen will stand up--with a roll of tape holding her together on the back of the card board---  I could hear my own Mom yelling at me, when I was a kid and I had gone into her Cedar chest and made cutouts with all her knitting books---  in my mind , it all came back- 

"I wish you in Halifax" I remember her telling me-- I knew she was devastated -I was about 7 yrs old I think--I never forgot that --- Of course I stopped yelling at Himself-What was the point eh?-- Later on, I was telling Son#2, the Pilot son, over the phone , even telling him about Mom wishing me in Halifax-

"But why did she wish yu in Halifax?" was all he could say--Strange how things one hears as a child, haunts you in later years eh------"I dunno", I replied--but, obviously  even tho I never knew where Halifax was, I never forgot that episode with Mom who lost all her patterns for her knitting, and how sorry I felt for her after my dastardly deed which made perfect sense to me.

I suppose , to Himself, it  made perfect sense to get rid of my cardboard Queen--but-----I am learning that when I go out--leave the house with Himself in it, life is not the same anymore- And you know what?--  to-day I know where Halifax is--- --I never ever "wished my own children  there tho!"