The family all remains connected and that is such a good thing. We enjoyed our stay and our conversations especially the trip to the Waterhen (I think that is what it is called) with Lyle and Teresa.
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This is the north end of the Waterhen Wildlife sanctuary where we saw so many snow geese, Grants geese, Canadian geese and the Sandhill cranes. A juvenile bald eagle was waiting in the trees, I think there is pretty easy picking with the swathed crops lying in the fields making a buffet for the rodents.
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Warren, Bev and Greg
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Sherry and Teresa
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Harold and Luella
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Bob and Sherry
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Bryan and Lyle sharing a laugh.
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Derailed grain car at Melfort. Just an accident that I have two different kinds of cranes here. Ha ha.
I absolutely have to get more powerful zoom lens for my camera.
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Snow geese everywhere you look. Landing in the swathed fields.
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Olive's final place in the Melfort Cemetery. The ancestor's she shares this place with are her aunt and uncle. Her maternal aunt raised her from an infant. She called her Mother Eastman.
The house in the town of Ethelton that Olive and Ariel built has since been upgraded with a tv antenna and vinyl siding.
The town of Ethelton or should I say hamlet...no wait, what is smaller than a hamlet?
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Imagine being a little boy on the prairies in the '40's, living in a little hamlet like Ethelton where the train tracks ran along where the elevated road is in the picture. Nothing to do but be a kid.
We didn't know what the roads were likest Kindersley so we booted it. We didn't have time to stop and take a good look at the old trestle bridge.
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