Thursday, January 11, 2018
Our condolences, Lara, Jan, and your families.
I had the pleasure of living with Colette, Louise and Bev Robertson for my last year of university in Saskatoon, 1965/66. We shared a two bedroom basement flat. For the first semester, Louise, Bev and I made Campbell's soup. Collette cooked dinners from the Time Life series of international cookbooks. We oohed and aahed and ate. After Christmas, Colette sat us down and informed us that she wasn't cooking another meal for the rest of the school year. Thanks to her example and wonderful tutelage, we learned our way around the kitchen.
Colette and Ted also taught us how not to spend a Saturday night. Ted would probably be over for dinner (he did supply us with lots of meat from the farm); and then Ted and Colette would decide on what they would do for the evening. After two or three hours of increasingly heated discussion, no decision was made and Ted would leave, slamming the door behind him. I guess they got all the arguing out of the way before they were married.
Both were gracious, hospitable people and will be sorely missed. Sandra
