Venue booked and a haircut

A fresh fall flower arrangement

I snapped this photo at a wedding venue we were checking out with daughter L and her fiance.  Yes they did book at another venue for Aug 2022!  Believe it or not, these dates are going fast.

Last week I finally decided to get a haircut, my first since Covid started.  The salon was empty and it was done quickly by a senior lady named Rose.  She had an interesting life story.  She came to Canada on a refugee boat from Vietnam in 1978.  The Cambodian-Vietnamese war was just starting according to Google.  She said at the time, the refugees were offered a choice of 3 countries that would take them in.  Canada was the first choice, the US was the second, and I forget what the 3rd choice was.  So she chose to come to Canada.  She said all the males were taken to jail but some of those relatives were eventually after some years able to buy themselves freedom to the US.  It explains why she has relatives in California now.

As a single mother of 3 boys, Rose said she had to find a good job to support them so she got a telecommunications job monitoring satellites I think she said.  Now that the boys are grown and married she works part time as a hairdresser at the salon.  She had taken a haircutting course to learn a skill for her retirement career.  I was happy with my haircut, I may see her again.