/…The vast fruited plain was our home for the past two weeks and it is a site to behold………..
golden fields of Canola waiting in the sunshine before losing that glorious glow and declaring themselves ready for the harvest!!!
/…but there are many pockets of land left barren, and unseeded because of too much moisture, especially in Southern Saskatchewan.
Huge acreages where grain usually grows are covered by water the result of more rain than many old-timers ever remember.
/…Our travels took us to Nanton, a small but thriving town on highway 2 south of Calgary. It’s the gateway to what some call the
finest ranch country in the nation. It is also where you will find the Bomber Command Museum and the FOXeS. These Foxes(four brothers and
Lady Fox-mama bear to some, comprise one of the areas best known families. There’s Dan, he’s a museum Board member and one of the charter
members , then Gary who is the area’s mechanic to go to, motorcycle wild-man and antic car aficionado, Mark is the farmer
looking after vast fields of grain and hay–his cattle herds dot the fabulous hills west of Nanton, the ones that fold into the foothills that
work their way into the mountains that seem to look different everyday. Lee is the family golfer and lately has again displayed a major talent for painting
pictures of the land that time forgot. Lady Foxe, better know as Joan is the family matriarch living on her downsized ranch, from time to time holding court with the ‘Boys’ and their wives, keeping track of the grand-kids and reminding the great-grand-kids of the traditions of the family into which they have been born.
/…we left Nanton reluctantly because of the beauty of the foothills and the mountains, less than hour away…. And the Elk, and the Buffalo and the
mountain sheep and the bears………………………….and of course the BIG SKY!
/…Saskatoon is one of the most beautiful cities on that fruited plain. It was there, actually 45 minutes northwest in Borden that we renewed our
longstanding friendship with Cousins Ron and Julia, Gail and Bob. The Bezugly’s(Ron and Julia) farm some 6-thousand acres were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary.
Who would miss that?!!! Gail and Bob Young flew into tranquil Saskatoon from that most troubled world capital, Washington DC!
The 50th was a hoot. Lots of people, fondued 10 ounce steaks, new and fondued potatoes, salad, Saskatoon berries, wine, beer and coolers and the Satellite Kid–one of the funniest of the many Elvis Impersonators I’ve ever seen. And he’s from Borden, population 200, maybe 215!!!???
Borden where twilight lasts about an hour and a half, where the Borden Bridge is an icon–that’s the one you see on the blog page.
Borden where people smile and say hello and live a life of simple sophistication, complicated only by the vagaries of weather that determines what the
land will be allowed to yield–this year. That’s the great thing about sports and farming–there’s always next year. But so far this year is shaping up to
be a 60 goal season. The crops are getting ready to produce megatons and the Bezugly clan is wishin’ and hopin’……………….. and so are we!
/…The return home was accompanied by the abruptness of reality. That August is here and the CNE is just around the corner and we all know what that
means, the final long weekend of summer. Time and tide wait for no one. Funny how time slips away. Welcome to the Dog Days of summer
The heat wave was over but the markets were in heat and the population was being screwed over again by the genius architects in the financial capitals of the world.
Do we really believe these people in charge are any smarter than we are??? I’ll bet anyone of us could run a deficit of a couple of billion?
You just need to remember three KEY words———-“not my money.”
/…Naturally the Blue Jays were winning one and losing two, every three games–even tho’ they added Rasmus and Lawrie while were gone!
11 and a half games behind when we left, 12 games when we returned.
/…Toronto’s political landscape remains the same. Fatso Ford and brother Doug are still running the Fort having just concluded a running-off-at-the
mouth battle with Margaret Atwood, a world-famous Canadian author that Doug Ford had never heard of…….you know that means every library
in the City is in danger.
/…the world financial crisis is still a crisis, undoubtedly the result of that deadly combination–bureaucracy and politics— they are successfully
overwhelming economics in every G-8 country. Maybe the Return of the Apes is a harbinger??!
/…A review of two articles written about the trial of former Toronto Maple leaf Rick Vaive captain gives emphasis to the importance that communities
have at least two dailies. The two stories make you wonder whether both reporters were in the same courtroom?
Vaive, charged the impaired driving was in court friday, the 5th(august) and that’s about all the two reports agree on;
Star staff reporter Peter Edwards and Toronto Sun columnist Michele Mandel offer their versions of what happened. Frankly, my reading of
Mandel’s version in the Sun suggests she is in much less awe of Vaive then Peter Edwards and that would suggest she takes DUI’s more seriously than
Edwards. The trial will resume, incredibly on February 16, next year! Flinty McGuinty has failed miserably to solve the overloaded court dockets
across the province even though his Attorney General keeps promising a more streamlined vehicle. There never was much of a styling difference
between the model T and the Model A.
/…Conan O’ Brien who used to write jokes for his late night rivals continues to scribe the funniest lines, this time for his own show.
From the Sun’s line-up of the week’s best late-night laughs-O’Brien: “A man jumped the White House fence, but after a brief chase.
the Secret Service was able to talk President Obama into coming back and finishing his term.”
Until next time, TA from AJ.
economics
holidayatlarge 
The Golden West
2011/08/07 1 Comment
/…The vast fruited plain was our home for the past two weeks and it is a site to behold………..
golden fields of Canola waiting in the sunshine before losing that glorious glow and declaring themselves ready for the harvest!!!
/…but there are many pockets of land left barren, and unseeded because of too much moisture, especially in Southern Saskatchewan.
Huge acreages where grain usually grows are covered by water the result of more rain than many old-timers ever remember.
/…Our travels took us to Nanton, a small but thriving town on highway 2 south of Calgary. It’s the gateway to what some call the
finest ranch country in the nation. It is also where you will find the Bomber Command Museum and the FOXeS. These Foxes(four brothers and
Lady Fox-mama bear to some, comprise one of the areas best known families. There’s Dan, he’s a museum Board member and one of the charter
members , then Gary who is the area’s mechanic to go to, motorcycle wild-man and antic car aficionado, Mark is the farmer
looking after vast fields of grain and hay–his cattle herds dot the fabulous hills west of Nanton, the ones that fold into the foothills that
work their way into the mountains that seem to look different everyday. Lee is the family golfer and lately has again displayed a major talent for painting
pictures of the land that time forgot. Lady Foxe, better know as Joan is the family matriarch living on her downsized ranch, from time to time holding court with the ‘Boys’ and their wives, keeping track of the grand-kids and reminding the great-grand-kids of the traditions of the family into which they have been born.
/…we left Nanton reluctantly because of the beauty of the foothills and the mountains, less than hour away…. And the Elk, and the Buffalo and the
mountain sheep and the bears………………………….and of course the BIG SKY!
/…Saskatoon is one of the most beautiful cities on that fruited plain. It was there, actually 45 minutes northwest in Borden that we renewed our
longstanding friendship with Cousins Ron and Julia, Gail and Bob. The Bezugly’s(Ron and Julia) farm some 6-thousand acres were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary.
Who would miss that?!!! Gail and Bob Young flew into tranquil Saskatoon from that most troubled world capital, Washington DC!
The 50th was a hoot. Lots of people, fondued 10 ounce steaks, new and fondued potatoes, salad, Saskatoon berries, wine, beer and coolers and the Satellite Kid–one of the funniest of the many Elvis Impersonators I’ve ever seen. And he’s from Borden, population 200, maybe 215!!!???
Borden where twilight lasts about an hour and a half, where the Borden Bridge is an icon–that’s the one you see on the blog page.
Borden where people smile and say hello and live a life of simple sophistication, complicated only by the vagaries of weather that determines what the
land will be allowed to yield–this year. That’s the great thing about sports and farming–there’s always next year. But so far this year is shaping up to
be a 60 goal season. The crops are getting ready to produce megatons and the Bezugly clan is wishin’ and hopin’……………….. and so are we!
/…The return home was accompanied by the abruptness of reality. That August is here and the CNE is just around the corner and we all know what that
means, the final long weekend of summer. Time and tide wait for no one. Funny how time slips away. Welcome to the Dog Days of summer
The heat wave was over but the markets were in heat and the population was being screwed over again by the genius architects in the financial capitals of the world.
Do we really believe these people in charge are any smarter than we are??? I’ll bet anyone of us could run a deficit of a couple of billion?
You just need to remember three KEY words———-“not my money.”
/…Naturally the Blue Jays were winning one and losing two, every three games–even tho’ they added Rasmus and Lawrie while were gone!
11 and a half games behind when we left, 12 games when we returned.
/…Toronto’s political landscape remains the same. Fatso Ford and brother Doug are still running the Fort having just concluded a running-off-at-the
mouth battle with Margaret Atwood, a world-famous Canadian author that Doug Ford had never heard of…….you know that means every library
in the City is in danger.
/…the world financial crisis is still a crisis, undoubtedly the result of that deadly combination–bureaucracy and politics— they are successfully
overwhelming economics in every G-8 country. Maybe the Return of the Apes is a harbinger??!
/…A review of two articles written about the trial of former Toronto Maple leaf Rick Vaive captain gives emphasis to the importance that communities
have at least two dailies. The two stories make you wonder whether both reporters were in the same courtroom?
Vaive, charged the impaired driving was in court friday, the 5th(august) and that’s about all the two reports agree on;
Star staff reporter Peter Edwards and Toronto Sun columnist Michele Mandel offer their versions of what happened. Frankly, my reading of
Mandel’s version in the Sun suggests she is in much less awe of Vaive then Peter Edwards and that would suggest she takes DUI’s more seriously than
Edwards. The trial will resume, incredibly on February 16, next year! Flinty McGuinty has failed miserably to solve the overloaded court dockets
across the province even though his Attorney General keeps promising a more streamlined vehicle. There never was much of a styling difference
between the model T and the Model A.
/…Conan O’ Brien who used to write jokes for his late night rivals continues to scribe the funniest lines, this time for his own show.
From the Sun’s line-up of the week’s best late-night laughs-O’Brien: “A man jumped the White House fence, but after a brief chase.
the Secret Service was able to talk President Obama into coming back and finishing his term.”
Until next time, TA from AJ.
economics
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