February has been a month of cold and snow and wind and all things wintery. Of course that’s what winter is for right? It seems as though a lot of people are getting tired of winter already. Well good NEWS! Only 20 days till the first day of spring. Naturally winter is no respecter of…
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Since we’ve had a lot of snow this year in parts of Canada and the US, snow is uppermost on a lot of people’s minds. I thought I would write about the worst blizzard I can remember in my lifetime. This happened while we were living on the same farm near Gladstone, Manitoba that I wrote about…
As promised here is an account of the second time I made my mother laugh that stands out in memory. I’m sure there were many other times but she usually laughed with me rather than at me. When I was about eight or nine we lived on a farm in Manitoba about 5 miles south…
Most kids do a pretty good job of making their mother cry at some point in their childhood. Lots of kids make their mothers cry on an almost daily basis. I know my siblings and I occasionally caused our mother tears. Nothing to be proud of, that’s for sure. My mother has been gone now…
I get a real kick out of all the people complaining about the cold weather lately. To hear some of them go on about it, you would think they had never experienced freezing temperatures before in their life. I can sort of understand the people in Florida whining when it drops into the 50’s but…
I finally remembered what I got for Christmas the year my sister got the big dollhouse. It wasn’t quite as big as the doll house but to me infinitely better. It was a real action replica of a service station complete with gas pumps, a hoist, wash rack, parts counter and lube bay. It had…
As Christmas draws ever closer I can’t help looking back over all the Christmases in my past that meant the most to me. Of course when we are very young it seems to be mostly about the tree, Santa Claus, and gifts. As we get older we realize it was a lot more than that….
Since we’re getting so close to Christmas now (only a week a way) I’ve decided to continue with a few Christmas stories from my own past to add to the year Santa did a “No-Show”. In our house growing up, we had some pretty strict rules regarding Christmas morning. We never opened gifts on Christmas…
Back in September of 2013 I did something I had never done before in my life. I wrote, composed, sang and recorded a video of a song for a 41st Anniversary present for my wife Marilyn. It went over pretty good at the time. Didn’t think it was going to make her cry but what…
Recently I was asked why I love to read and write so much. I guess the first person to blame would be my mother. She read to me from the moment I could sit still for more than five minutes and listen. It wasn’t long before my demands for “Just one more story….Pleasssse” were the…
