You can just hear the grass growing a, bit of a late spring but we will catch up. It鈥檚 the kind of day when you like to be alive. There are so many birds but they are still at my feeders. Maybe they like the easy picking.

Mother鈥檚 Day

Mother鈥檚 Day has come and gone and it turned out to be a nice day too. This is a time when we remember our mother鈥檚 with love and respect.

They are very special people. Back on the prairie we didn鈥檛 have a Mother鈥檚 Day, I wish we had. During the great depression it was so hard for the women folk. It was the mother鈥檚 that kept the families together. Kept food on the table and clothes on our backs. We were milking a bunch of cows and it was the cream cheque every week that kept us going. What feed we had we kept for the cows and a team of horses. Water was also a big problem as our wells were going dry as well as the Eyehill Creek.

Lots of women like our mother had come from the old country and not used to these terrible conditions the depression had brought on. Lots of them just broke down and had to be taken out. So sad for the families they left behind. Some day I would like to write a book on the big dry and the great depression but I just wonder if folks would believe me with some of the stories I well remember.

Welcome home

It鈥檚 good news to have our good friend Wolfy Fraychineaud back into his summer home on the east Francois Lake road. He and his family have come up to their holdings on Francois for longer than I can remember. The old J-P Ranch was their home and still is for over 70 years.

Southside Women鈥檚 Institute news. Five members of the S.S.W.I. met at the Seda building on May 14, Diana Sedlar gave a report on the Hazelton conference. Our group got first in the four out of six competitions and was awarded the shield for the second year in a row.

The raffle items were discussed, the 1st prize a Tweedsmuir meadows quilt, 2nd prize a cathedral window wall quilt hanger and 3rd prize a diamond table runner. The draw will be held at the L.D. fair, tickets will be as usual $2.

Such sad news

What a shock to us all with the passing of Anne Waldron. Such a wonderful and caring lady. This will be another break in our old time pioneer families. Anne was very special to both Jo and I as she was Jo鈥檚 flower girl, our wedding now over 60 years ago. She was such a pretty little girl as at I sill have wedding pictures of her. The pictures are so precious to me.

Opening soon

The Wagon Wheel drive in will be opening up this weekend. Everyone is looking forward to the burgers and fries and a nice place to just sit and visit and look at the lake and enjoy the good food.

Is it pollution?

A concerned gentleman brought this matter to my attention.

It looks to him Pinnacle Pellet Plant is still spewing smoke all over, not only in 亚洲天堂 Lake but all along the area as well. If this is correct this is a no no and not at all acceptable as we must have clean air to breathe. I know the environmentalist say it is up to par and everything is in line out there but the question I have is why do we see so much smoke coming from their stacks? I am not sure if I believe that is just water particles. Our editor, Rebecca said she will investigate again about it so we will wait and see.

Bottled water

I notice within the last while we see more and more folks buying their drinking water, it鈥檚 big business now. I never thought I would ever see this happen. It鈥檚 not long ago that Francois Lake was 95 percent pure and Tchesinkut Lake was 99 percent pure.

I just wonder what it would test now, a good question, what about our other lakes and rivers. I have spent the greater years of my life living beside one of the most beautiful lakes in the world and I refuse to buy drinking water it just goes against the way I think I feel. Maybe it鈥檚 time we started to clean up our act before it鈥檚 too late.

My time is running out but it鈥檚 our children who will be taking over in the near future I worry about. Our air and water are our lifeblood so let鈥檚 start to clean it up before it鈥檚 too late.

More sad news

Such a shock to hear last night with the passing of Bill Harrison, a good friend and our neighbour for many years.

This is a break with another one of our very old time pioneer families. After the loss of his dear wife Rosemary. Bill spent the last months of his life in the Pines. Bill was so well known with his air services he had for many years. He was well known also as an exceptional pilot.

Big holes

It was good to see a paving crew filling up the holes along the roadway in town. Some of the holes were deep enough to damage the front end of a small vehicle. How long the patching will stay time will tell.

I guess there are plans to try to make the main street, which is also the Yellowhead and a Trans Canada Hwy. a bit safer and less congestion as well. Yesterday I counted seven big 鈥淏鈥� trains back to back going east. It will be a good news to have that heavy traffic diverted, makes the streets safer. It will be up to the powers that be I would guess.

Let鈥檚 hope we get some warmer days as so far our leaves are just coming out and most places both east and west the leaves are full out. I think the cold winds from the lake are holding them back. As Mark Twain once said 鈥淓veryone talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.鈥�  A little poem

Oh, put my spurs upon my breasts, my rope and saddle tree, and when the boys lay me to rest, please turn my horses free.

Have a safe week and always remember treat every day as if it were your last because some day it will be. God always loves you a great deal and so do I.