Scratchings in the Dirt

Now what?

As some of you good readers may have surmised by now, our lives have been revolving around hockey.  Well, we’ve hit a crack in the ice.  Adam has been out for over a month with a bad knee, and the earliest he can get in to see an orthopedic specialist is February 8, in Medicine Hat.  Yes, you read correctly. Medicine Hat.  I asked him the other day how he’s going to get

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Farewell, good friend

               DON PHILLIPS   1957 – 2008The Phillips and the Schraefels have been friends forever.  Clem spent lots of time out at the Phillips farm when he was growing up.  Donny was just younger than his brother, Norm, andClem, and they all got into lots of trouble together over the years.  Donny was diagnosed with cancer in

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