I swore I would do more than one post in September, so here it is! 1. Harvest is still dragging on. After hail and wind took their toll, Clem was still fairly satisfied with the yield. And we are relatively lucky – some places around here got hit with hail three times this year. Yikes.
1. We are still here. Try as it might, the wind was not able to blow us to Manitoba yesterday. Some of our land, and swaths, may be there, though. It completely cleaned off 40 acres of lentil swaths. And someone’s pea swaths blew through our yard at one point. We fared much better than
It’s overcast, cold, windy, and raining. Which suits my mood perfectly. Yesterday we learned of the sudden and tragic death of a young man from Kindersley. He is Stephen’s age, and they played AA Bantam hockey together. In fact, he was apparently on his way to North Battleford to try out for the junior team.
Apparently Derek is just happy to know he could make a AA team, and that’s all he needs. Yesterday, after much deep discussion (and you know how he likes to discuss. And discuss. And discuss…) he decided he doesn’t want to play AA. He says he is not committed to working that hard, and just
Friday night I was lolling around the house hoping to either die or have my cold magically disappear when Derek announced that he would like to go to tryouts for the area AA Bantam team. That started on Saturday. For two whole days. Now keep in mind that he has been deliberating about this since