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Spring in Saskatchewan

I guess winter doesn’t just seem long, it is long!  What a treat to wake up to this!  Now Environment Canada gets it right –  I suppose one should be more specific when saying we need moisture.  Oh well, never a dull moment here in God’s country.   A bit of a juxtaposition to see the air

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Spring has sprung.

Flocks of geese.  Warm afternoons.  Daylight when I get up in the morning.  Yep, it’s spring.  Finally.  Maybe I’m just getting old (yeah, I know, there’s really no maybe about it), but the winterseemed to go on for an awfully long time.  There’s still a lot of snow in the trees, but now I can see those piles getting smaller every day.  Hooray! So what prompts me to write today, after such a

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Babies, giraffes, and sunshine

We decided to get out of Dodge and go looking for spring, so it was off to Calgary for a couple of days.  It was fabulous!  Shirt-sleeve weather (at least for the boys), lots of sunshine, and that amazing view of downtown Calgary backed by the majestic, snow-covered Rocky Mountains. Awesome.  It was good for

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Shades for sale, or, pride goeth before a fall

Clem said I was bragging too much about the boys.  I told him to never mind, that someone should blow their horns, and who better than mom?  Turns out he may have had a point.  The SHA zone rosters came out yesterday, and guess who’s name was missing?  That’s right.  No Stephen.  After a call

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We are all going to need shades for this bright future!

Well, he did it.  Stephen made the Bantam Zone 7 team!  He attended the weekend tryout in Eston, and must have impressed someone.  His ex-coach was one of the evaluators, and he either didn’t carry much weight with the coach or he was generous and gave Stephen a good evaluation.  Whatever happened, Stephen got the

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