Mom and Me

 

This is a picture of my mom and I sitting on my parents little rattle trap car. My parents lived in northern Manitoba after they were married. They lived in a teeny tiny town about 450 miles north of Winnipeg in a trailer while my dad was working building turbines for a power generating station.

I arrived three weeks late which meant my mother had to stay in Winnipeg with friends over Christmas waiting for me to be born and she was in the hospital for New Years whilst my dad was out celebrating my birth lol.

They tell the story of taking me home from the hospital. Manitoba gets cold oh so cold in the winter and one of the ways to keep your engine warm in those days was a kind of engine blanket that zipped up over the hood of the car. In the days before car seats, my parents had me in a car bed on the floor in the front seat of the car wrapped up and right in front of the heater lol. The only problem with their car and the engine blanket was that if you drove for long enough, your car would start to overheat so you would need to stop the car, get out, unzip the blanket and drive for a while until it was so cold that the engine started to sputter and you would need to get out and zip up the engine blanket again. My parents tell me that I was the only one that was warm on that long long drive home in -45F.