After I graduated from high school eons ago the logical location for post-secondary studies was Edmonton. Edmonton was only an hour away. I was interested in the field of social work but the only degree program in Alberta was at the University of Calgary. Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton had a two-year diploma program and… Read more »
It’s Wednesday night as I write this and I feel an odd mixture of fatigue, anticipation, and nervous energy. My sister, my mother, and I are all joining forces for a multi-family garage sale this Victoria Day weekend. We bought a couple of newspaper ads and Sherry’s Jim is making some very professional looking signs… Read more »
?A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavour by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate… Read more »
This morning Roy and I went to a Ritchie Bros. dispersal sale. It was a sight to behold. The night before, two local television stations had done stories about the sale in Nisku. When we checked out a John Deere combine a few days ago it was machinery, trucks, and heavy equipment as far as… Read more »
As I began pondering what I would write about this week I received an email. That email just saved me from having to write about doing our income tax and you having to read about it. Or maybe I would have written about a book I just finished reading. It’s called Creating Sacred Space with… Read more »
The other day Roy and I were in Edmonton. We made the big loop starting with a visit to a farm near Vilna. Roy was scoping out a John Deere 7720 combine to be sold during a farm auction. The yard was a terrible mess after a six-inch dump of wet snow the previous day…. Read more »
In August 2008 I bought a new laptop. It’s an HP with 17-inch monitor. I had no choice in the operating system that was installed. Despite all the bad press Windows Vista has had since it was launched in January 2007, It’s not going anywhere and for better or worse That’s what I got. For… Read more »
On Christmas Eve we found out that our daughter-in-law is pregnant. To say we were cautiously thrilled is an understatement. Greg and Carrie have been married since 2002 and now the time is right for them. We all took a vow of secrecy promising not to say anything until she was safely past the risky… Read more »
For the longest time I believed adherence to the latest fashion dictum was just plain crazy. How could designer creations from the world’s big fashion houses, and modeled by size zero waif-like creatures, have anything to do with my real life in rural Alberta? I objected to an industry with a vested interest in telling… Read more »
Facebook suggests writing 25 random facts about your life. Last time I gave you my first 11 and a couple that a Post writer offered up in his 25. Did you do your confession with tongue firmly in cheek? Did you include oddball quirks or raging rants? Were you clever or pithy? Did you just… Read more »