Saturday, February 5, 2022
Norma and Lisa Albes
I’d like to share a memory from Bobs favourite British Guest. He’ll always remember what a great job Lisa did of mowing the lawn AKA cutting the grass. The choice of the day was “would I like to help move the cows (not sure what that entailed) or Cut the grass. Having No Driving Experience Bob left ME a BRIT in charge of the tractor. So I started cutting the grass, thinking I was doing ok not to crash into anything, BOB comes out shouting “LISA! If you could try to go in straight lines that would be a great help”. So I take it my circular, higgledy piggledy patterns were NOT to Bobs taste. Needless to say was never asked to do this again. Thank God I didn’t choose to move the Cows!!! On the evening of the same day, Bob was master of the Barbeque as always, and we were breaking in the new HOT TUB on the deck. Bob gave me a steak, so i politely said “Bob, its a bit too pink for me, there’s blood coming out of it, can you put it back on for a bit longer please. Bob replied “that’s how we eat them in Canada” rolled his eyes and slapped it back on the bbq, waited 10 seconds and shouted me back. “All done Lisa. Just a bit longer please Bob to which he huffed and puffed and slapped it back on. This may have happened a further few times to which finally BOB said “you Bloody Brits with your overdone steak” sacrilege!!! Now every time I have an overdone steak here, I here the words “SACRILEGE”…. Lovely funny memories of you Bob.
Norma would like to add, the time you came out to Hawaii to visit Carole we all went down to Hanauma Bay for a swim, not being the strongest swimmer I didn’t VENTURE as far out as Bob and Carole,. happily looking at the fish with my snorkel, I suddenly hear shouts SHARK, well if you could imagine the view from where I was, Carole’s arms were waving about, Bob was swimming like he wanted a place in the Olympics, my bikini top came loose as I rushed to shore trying to keep my bits from falling out… To this day Carole and I cannot really be sure Bob wasn’t just doing what Bob does best….Leaving us a lovely funny memory and ones that I hope everyone will always talk about, being the only Boy in The Smallwood Family, he cannot have missed being influenced by his three wonderful Sisters, Marion, Lorraine and Carole.. you were a special Man to all who knew you Bob and that spread across the Atlantic for sure
