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Wednesday March 30, 2022
The morning was all blue sky and sunny and boded
well for the trip to our home town of Radville, Saskatchewan. It stayed beautiful all day.
First, we had a late brunch at Roots in Regina because we did not want to arrive before lunchtime in Radville. I had another nostalgia meal of eggs benedict that was simply superb there.
We made our way to Milestone for a quick rest stop and to pick up a couple of snacks before continuing on. I continued to marvel at the complete flatness of this area, the amount of beautiful water in the fields and the many herds of pronghorn antelope we encountered.
We entered our home town and there is still so much exactly the same as in our childhood so we do feel at home again. We cruised around most of the town trying to remember who lived where before heading west into the cemetery. We stopped right next to Mom & Dad’s grave and paid our respects before moving around the whole place. I took photos of several graves meaningful to me and to people we intend to visit.
We stopped to see old friend and cousin Jocelyne Doud to make arrangements for a mini class reunion tomorrow. More on that tomorrow…
We stopped at brother Norm’s house but a doorbell and a knock raised no-one so we continued to tour the town before I phoned Norm to find out that he had been napping in the living room with Drew, one of his granddaughters. Drew had not been feeling well so she was not in school today.
We went into Norm’s Man Cave (garage) where he has almost every toy and tool known to man, …most men’s dream place… I got to play with the dog Josie while we enjoyed a brew to satisfy my need for doggie attention.
Before long Lana came home from school with Drew’s sisters Kenna and Marley, who were later retrieved by their Mom, Kristina.
Norm BBQ’d a large batch of homemade deer and pork sausage and they were superb, driving home the fact that I can’t find decent sausage in Colombia, It is such a treat to enjoy these comfort foods on this trip.
In the evening we went to visit cousin Jeanne at her folks’ place that is now up for sale for $100,000 for anyone who may be interested. We hadn’t planned to stay long but 3 hours went by pretty quickly as we solved all the world’s problems.
Thank you to Norm and Lana for having beds all ready for us…..
Son-of-a-gun! After all these years I think that I have finally figured out how to make my photo uploads behave...!!!!
I hope you enjoy the pictures. That was the day’s excitement.
Al
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| Yummy eggs Benedict! |
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| Flat in every direction |
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| Many silos at this farm! |
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| Pronghorn Antelope |
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| We spotted several herds |
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| They are lovely animals |
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| A sign at the turn to Radville |
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| The CNR Station Museum |
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| Mom & Dad |
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| Maurice's brother |
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| Bad day July 1, 1967 |
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| We lost Rene that day too |
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| Preparations for cousins we hope to meet tomorrow |
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| Maurice's parents |
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| Jocelyne's parents |
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| Linda's parents |
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| Our old house |
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| Sweet Drew |
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| Drew and Josie |
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| Brother Norm |
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| Love this sign |
Norm and Drew 
Drew, Kenna, Lana, and Marley 
Again 
Wonderful homemade deer and pork sausage 
Suki and Jeanne
