For a few years bookending the turn of the millennium, another wonderful tradition played out at my aunt and uncle’s small farm in central Alberta. I speak, of course, of the legendary New Year’s Eve bonfires. During the preceding year a healthy stockpile of wood based refuse, be it windfall from around the farm or […]
My Life Is A Song #3
I grew up in a country home. This is not a reference to location, though I suppose it was countryish being an acreage on the edge of town surrounded by the sweet and not so sweet aromas of farms. No, my home was country in a music sense. Country and Western, in fact, would […]