Archives in Category: Special Events

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Come for the Commercials, Stay for the Game

Posted on February 4, 2012

Tomorrow is Super Bowl Sunday; and we’ve invited another couple over to watch with us. But I’m not sure we’re watching the game as much as we’re watching the commercials. Unless your hometown team is in the play-off, it isn’t

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Great Idea

Posted on November 7, 2011

I received an email from a friend a couple days ago titled “Christmas 2011 – Birth of a New Tradition.” It struck me as such a good idea that I am going against my policy of cutting and pasting items

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Trick or Treat, Redux

Posted on November 6, 2011

October is long gone and Halloween is gone with it. Still, I promised a follow-up to my Halloween experiences. And even at this late date, what struck me most was how polite the children and teens were. The early learning

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Trick or Treat

Posted on October 27, 2011

Halloween is four days away, and usually I avoid it like the plague. Earl and I darken our house and go out to a leisurely dinner somewhere until the proscribed time for Trick or Treat is over. Then we skulk

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Corn Maze

Posted on October 23, 2011

Farmers around here extend the growing season by creating corn mazes in their fields and charging admission to city folk like me to enter them, wend their way around the various paths while avoiding dead ends, and come out the

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Every Day Has Its Day

Posted on October 17, 2011

Recently I inadvertently learned that yesterday was National Dictionary Day and today is National Pasta Day. I’m not sure how these “holidays” came into being – whether organizations or people lobbied for them – but they did pique my interest.

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Wedding Time

Posted on September 17, 2011

This afternoon my son, Keith, and his partner, Chris, marry. They’ve been together fifteen years, so maybe someone might ask, “What will be different?”

I am in a position to answer. Last year, 2010, my partner of fifteen years and

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Exhausted

Posted on August 21, 2011

This was our last full day at Wollaston Lake Lodge, and we spent it on the water still searching for Big Fish. By the end of the day, Earl had caught a 44” pike and will have to be content

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Got Fish?

Posted on August 18, 2011

We are at Wollaston Lake Lodge in northwestern Saskatchewan, approximately three hundred miles beyond the last paved road. Some of the maps I have don’t even show Wollaston Lake, and certainly none of them show the lodge. That’s all right;

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Forty-Seven Years Ago

Posted on November 22, 2010

Almost two generations have grown to adulthood since John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United States, was shot and killed in Dallas on a bright November afternoon on November 22, 1963. In the space that gunshot occupies, the

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