HAND HILLS GRAPEVINE: Breaking up land on December 20? Wow!
By Marilyn Vredegoor
Hello Hand Hills! Happy Happy New Year to all of my readers. May this be the best year yet. You are in complete control of how happy it is. Write a great 2024 book. I know that I am going to really try!
The busy Christmas season has come and gone. We, like everyone, enjoyed our family time. In mid-December, we rented a huge house out in the Longview Area, and this is what the Grandkids call the Christmas House Adventure. It is a great way to spend two days away. It is our gift to the Family! You should try it!
I am thinking that this has never been done in the Hills before. Probably never happened in any part of Alberta either. Dean Raugust was still breaking up his hay land on Dec 20. Wow, that is something for the record books. I say that is taking full advantage of a window of weather that works for a farmer. I was always going to go take a picture but never did. I saw him discing at the end of November and thought that was crazy, but he just continued well into December. Crazy Alberta Weather.
Things are going to be happening in the Hills in 2024. Find out what! The Annual General Meeting of the Hand Hills Lake Club (1980) is January 25 at 7 o’clock. There will be the election of officers, and the schedule of up-and-coming events will be arranged. Plan to attend. Remember, this is your Community Club.
One of the events already planned is the Valentine's Dinner and Dance. Mark February 10 on your Calendars. More details to come!
As you know, I have gone ahead and booked the Clubhouse for an Elmer School Reunion for this July! Now, it is time to see if there is enough interest and to make some plans. I would like anyone who is interested in planning this event with me to meet me at my house on January 16 at 7 o’clock. My plans are for a very simple get-together where we can all reconnect. Let me know your thoughts. I will have a Facebook page up in the next few days, so please send me your thoughts. If you would like, just phone me at 403-854-0626. I think it could be fun! Please spread the word.
Christmas was a little more special this year at Bob and Pinky Tabors’. Heather and Egbert Jager came home from their sailing adventures and will be on land till the first part of February. I hope to get a better report when I talk to them. It sounds like a trip of a lifetime. What a way to see the world! More to come on their adventures!
Till next week ... follow your dreams, go sailing if you want to. Life is too short not to follow your dreams.