There are still some issues to resolve with the blog, as I have said in the past it is a work in progress. Pleased to see that reader comments are finally working.
Thanks to you all for the feedback. Specially my good friend Warren Smith, you have also evoked a bunch of memories that lay hidden somewhere in the old gray matter. Riding along on horseback for a few miles while your Dad and your siblings were herding cattle from the farm in Big Meadow to the summer pasture in East Prairie. Spinning u-turns in the summer fallow. You and I moving bales of hay with your Chevy pick up in East Prairie. Hay rides with all of the kids from Enilda and Big Meadow. Mr. Clossey who taught me to read using phonetics, the best method in my humble opinion. You bringing your siblings to school with a horse and cutter in the summers and covered sled in the winter keeping horse(s) in barn until school was out for the day. Mr. Simmons, looking back in later years I thought he was probably always drunk. More Enilda Memories in future blogs.
After graduating from High School In Grande Prairie I was able to get a job with Alberta Government Telephones in the Engineering Department in Edmonton. The old joke was ‘”Yesterday I couldn’t spell Enjuneer and today I are one” applied. My first position was as an electrical draftsman in the building department, first job was to develop the drawings and complete the specs for heaters in the outdoor bathrooms up in Rainbow Lake. Drafting was not really my forte and I desired a position with more electronics involved. I transferred in to a group that wrote the specs for order wire (communications between microwave sites) and alarm systems. After a couple of years there I was promoted and transferred to a department that looked after policies and procedures. More to come.
Back to the present.
Politics are the big news on both sides of the border. I find it hard to understand that a country the size of the US that they are unable to run better candidates than what they have. In Canada our PM is so far back in the polls that he is running around the country spending money like a drunken sailor.
Later folks!
Found it bud!!!!
Read your musings Bryce,like what you’re writing.It seems that only as we get older do we find the time to look back and think about the pros and conns of our live.Each with their own personal views and memories, glad i got reconnected to a old friend.
Yes It’s surprising how one memory will lead to another, then a comment from someone will release a bunch more. I hadn’t intended to get this detailed at first but requests from my Son and comments by others has caused me to keep expanding on early history for a while.