Ardell and I are really looking forward to Spring coming ---- maybe next year. I had to scrape my windshield yesterday morning to go to work -- it was so caked with frost. I planted my flowers in the flower beds last Saturday and I don't know now if they will survive this winter weather we are having. Like I say, we might get Spring in 2010, if we are lucky.

Ardell and I enjoyed the summer weather in Australia for the month of March. We visited our friends in Wagga Wagga, but really didn't do all that much for the month. It was nice to just relax in the back yard at Brian's house. We went to the beach at Batesmans' Bay, but the cabins we rented were so run down, we only stayed for two nights and left again. I didn't feel that $900.00 per week was justified for what we had. The website showed the new pictures on it of all the cabins, but they must have been 20 years ago. They were actually mobile homes, I am not suppose to call them trailers, but they were so old and the bed was as hard as my kitchen table. I like a hard bed but that was a little much. It was like sleeping on the box spring instead of a mattress. Annette wasn't very accomodating with us either. We asked them to go out for dinner with us for our Anniversary, that was what we went to Australia for, was our honeymoon and to celebrate our 1st anniversary on March 15th, but she refused to go out for dinner. I told her not to worry, we were taking them out and we were paying, thinking they couldn't afford to go out, but she still refused. So Ardell wanted to go to Melbourne to see a girl he used to work with in Calgary in the Engineering field, so we hopped on the Greyhound Bus, booked a hotel in Melbourne and went to Melbourne the night before our Anniversary. I didn't want to drive because they drive on the left hand side of the road. I would have had an accident the first five minutes on the road, I am sure. I guess Annette didn't like that, because after that time, she was cold shoulder to us. She would take off in the one and only car for the whole day and go where she wanted to go, and didn't take us anywhere after that weekend. I wished we could have changed our tickets home and left, but we endured it till the end. She finally took me to a Target store, but if she went shopping she would ride her bike to town, just so I couldn't go with her. She had taken me swimming with her a couple of time until the last two weeks, she would even ride her bike to town to do that. Hey it didn't take me long to catch on to her shanningans. Ardell says now he is sorry he told Brian to marry her. She is a strange person. I will tell you more when we are in person, but the welcome was worn out at their house. I will never go back.

Now when we went to Melbourne, Kathleen was about our same age, and she was a wonderful person who couldn't do enough for us. She met us at the Greyhound station, which was across the city for her to come and pick us up, she took us to our hotel, came and met us for breakfast the next morning, did research for a restaurant to go out for dinner the next night. She drove us all around on Sunday morning and went to the Victoria Market, took a tram tour of the downtown city, took us out for dinner that night, took us back to the hotel, and retrieved us the next morning to take us to the Greyhound bus again. Just was a darling with us. We had so much fun with her, wished we could have spent more time with her. She is coming home to Canada in July to take her daughter back to Melbourne with her, and plans on buying a winery with her daughter and live there for good. June 5th she will be an Australian citizen. She is such a sweetheart. We hope to see her when she returns to Calgary this summer.

We were very glad to get home to Calgary and back to work, although I really didn't miss work.
I may just plan to retire sooner than planned.

Ok today Ardell and I changed our email addresses and went to Shaw for our emails. Our new addresses are wilsonae@shaw.ca and wilsonsl48@shaw.ca. Make note of them in your email address lists.

We hope to see all the family at the 50th anniversary for Marvelle and Clifford. We look forward to seeing Nickee and Brad and all the Noble and Hyde families.

See you soon.

Love
Shirley

NOBLE NEWS #75 - Marvelle Reporter

Dear Shirley & Lester Ann, Thanks so much. I got flowers from Nickee and Brad delivered to me on Friday by Brad; phone calls from Dustyn and Shelbi. Love you all,

love Marvelle

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARVELLE

My Dearest Sister Marvelle:

(I know that is the way Aunt Mary would start all her letters.) I do hope you are having the best birthday ever, cause this will be your last in the 60's group. Next one is the big 70 -----)))):

What can I say about Marvelle? She is my big sister and I would do anything she asked me to do, including sitting at the end of the plank while she sawed off the end of it and I went plunging to the ground, because the board was binding against her hand saw and she really needed me to sit on the end of the board, and I always did what she told me to do. So yeah I have a dent in my ego to prove it, but I laughed at the time, cause Marvelle got a lickin' with the saw. But I don't care, cause she is still my big sis.

Then there was the time that she took me under her wing and let me live with her family, while I was going to school in Cardston. I was so disappointed when they had to move to Foremost to live and left me in Cardston all by myself, but I still loved her for what she did for me. Then when I finished my Grade 12 in Cardston, Clifford made sure I had the job at the County of Forty Mile as their payroll clerk on the old bookeeping machine and I moved in with them again till I was married and moved to Calgary.

Then there was the time I went half way around the world alone by myself, trying to find Marvelle and Clifford in Ghana. I was so terrified. The airplane dropped us off on the tarmac at the Accra Airport and had us loaded on a bus to take us to the terminal. I had to get my luggage off the plane, get through immigration and customs all by myself. Clifford told me to get a porter to stay with me till I found them. So I paid a porter $5.00 American (near to being his annual salary in cedes). He stayed with me through immigration and customs then told me he could not go out of the customs area. So a supervisor came along and told me I had to pay for 4 porters to stay with me. I told him I would pay him $20 American to find me a porter who would stay with me until I got through the airport and find my sister on the outside of the airport. So I had to wheel my luggage down a big long ramp in the darkest night I had ever seen. The night was black, the people were black and I could not see. Their street lights are little kerosene lamps on th side of the so called streets. It was the thrill of my life, when I heard Marvelle screem -- OH There she is ---- Shirley over here!!!!!!!!!!!! I felt her love in her scream. Marvelle and Clifford showed me around Ghana and all the wonderful church people there. All the people loved Marvelle's sister. They all wanted me to take them home with me. A few of them even tried. One in particular, Charles wanted me to help pay for his daughter Mavis schooling. I did send her money after my visit to Ghana, but then she wanted me to bring her to Canada. I could not be responsible for that, so I quit sending her money. One of the men in Koforidua wanted me for his wife -- I would be his third but much to my not desiring of sharing with two other wifes, didn't think that was such a good idea. I cherish the memories I have of Ghana though. We had so much fun and I have lots of picture to prove it. The trip was the highlight of my life.

I really appreciate all that Marvelle has done for me in my life. She was stood by me when I have cried and when I have laughed. She was my rock during my divorce and she supported me all the way through.

I even loved her when I was a little girl and she would chase me with a garter snake or an earth worm or a lizard in the cellar.

She is still by BIG SIS' and I love you to death.

Have a Happy Birthday, and we will see you on June 27th for your anniversary. I am looking forward to seeing all our family and friends then.

Love
Shirley

NOBLE NEWS - #74 Marvelle Reporter

Since I haven't written for some time now I'll give you an update on the NOBLE FAMILY. On the 21st of April Adam gave his homecoming talk in his ward in Calgary. Colleen graciously gave her home and we had dinner there. Helen and Brad did the meal - it was nice. We went up the night before and stayed at Colleen's. Colleen scanned my address book and sent it to Nickee so that she could send out invites. Even if you don't get an invitation you are invited. Our, Clifford's and mine, 50th anniversay will be on the 27th of June in Cardston, AB at the Senior's Tanner Centre at 6:00pm, So be there or be square.. Then on the 3rd of May Adam and Shelbi had their birthdays. Helen is having a party on the 15th for all the May birthdays. Brad's birth- day is on the 28th. Scott's is on the 18th, We phoned Shelbi today. She is a hostess at a restaurant in Calgary now. She is such a cute kid. Well will go. We are all fine and in good health. So we will see you on the 27th of June.

love Marvelle