Rainy Days in the North!

A big thanks to our friends Allan & Shirley for picking us up in their vehicle and for arranging a day out visiting old friends.

The rain did stop long enough for Karen's grandkids to have a marshmallow roast in her back yard. The Grayston's picked us up around 9 a.m. and Rick drove their truck and our first stop was at Mortensons.

Rick & Al worked with Alf at the MacDonald's Warehouse for years. Alf was a character then and still is. Alf's son has a welding shop out there with a half dozen employees, they do a lot of work for the oil rigs and keeps very busy. Shirley's next stop of interest was at Bruno Pohl's at Tomslake.

We found him out cutting up firewood with his brother and his wife. He said he has about five years worth of wood stocked up. We had our picnic lunch in his kitchen as the weather was not in our favour and he had a cozy wood heater going in the living room.

We stopped to take a picture of an old barn at Andersch's place that Allan and Shirley were interested in for their photo collection of old barns in the Peace Country. Next stop was Tupper at Swan Lake where there will be a music festival this weekend. A lot of campers were already setting up so we stopped at their friend Lorna's place who turned out to be Dave Hamilton's new wife. He also worked at the warehouse and is a great musician who will be a part of the entertainment this weekend. Rick and I attended a lot of the dances that Dave and his band played at "away back when" in the Peace. Our final stop in the afternoon was Joyce Sipe's place at Demmitt, AB. Originally we had mentioned we would be there early afternoon but had forgotten about the hour difference in time, so we called to let her know we would be there a little late.

She had baked a chocolate cake as she had previously told Rick "if I had known you were coming I would have baked a cake". Mmm good.

She had found 3 full rolls and a bag of ends of Nylotex yarn which I have been looking for, forever. They no longer manufacture it and I like to braid hangers for gifts. We got back into town in time to meet up with John & Lori for Chinese dinner at the Orion. The girls thought it would be nice if we stopped at the casino on the way home,

it turned out to be okay as Rick made enough to more than double the cost of our dinner.