Tools for tagging and/or causing trouble As the only veterinarian for 100 square miles, Dad was called upon for many different ...

I really wanted to take Shop class. Working with power tools. Smelling the aroma of freshly-sawn wood as you constructed your first-ev...

I probably don’t have to tell you that Canada is a large country. In bygone years, the men who manned the trains crisscrossing it spent...

Finished at last. Note: Large silver quonset (Center) House, far left. For one summer, the Stringams lived in a quonset. Between mov...

Grade Twelve English 30. My favourite class of all time. What could possibly be better than reading books and stories and then talk...

I was visiting my folks, we had had a nice day, I’d been married three weeks, had been living ‘away’. “There’s just one thing I hate ...

Chokecherry syrup. Delicious in so many ways. The digging out of the 'berry pails' wasn't always a reason for celebration...

Oh, sure. It looks harmless enough now . . . Washing and scrubbing and blow-drying and trimming. And brushing and brushing and brush...

I have to admit that I really never know what my sister is going to do next. There are probably those of you who would label her ‘Cuckoo’...

Daddy at 5. Background: his brother, Bryce. Ignore the gun . . . Dad was the youngest in a family of 11 children. He had never been a...

It starts out with a snuffle--a voice he's never heard before, And suddenly, he's a Father with a whole new world in store. T...

Second row: Me Bottom row: My nemesis. I tried. I really did. I just wasn't . . . quite/ever . . . good enough. Maybe I s...

Old Mike, he’s quite the ornery guy, But if you ever ask him why, Rather than his ways decry, ‘Tis likely he’d just not reply. ...

You see misfortune. We saw 'scaaaary'! There was a haunted house in Milk River. Haunted. Really. Demons lived there. W...

The store with everything. At just the right price . . . Dad was running an errand f or his mother. It was 1937 and the family had ...