Sympathy goes out to Edward and Maralyn Wintersgill on the recent passing of Maralyn's mother Bea Mills of River Heights Lodge in North Battleford. Bea spent a few years at Meadow Sweet Manor in Battleford then moved on to the lodge in North Battleford. Bea had celebrated her 102nd birthday April 19. Her husband, Lionel Mills, passed away a few years ago. Burial took place at Lakeview Cemetery at Tullis.
With the milder weather, a little more warm sunshine and lots of water, potholes have become good breeding places for the mosquitos to hatch. Some of them are pretty tiny and are out in full swing to bite through anything – and they are hungry.
Lawns and most open areas are all taking on the bright yellow colour of the pesky dandelions. You can mow them all off and they just pop back up the next day for more to bloom. They do look pretty all in bloom so early each spring, but when they go into seeds, the fuzz is all over the place and are full of seeds to start more new plants. They have such a big thick tap root on them and are ever so hard to kill. A plant killing spray is the best way to kill them off, as they do spread very fast. Take care with the spraying as it can do a lot of damage and even kill other good plants and flowers in your garden area and even spread to the neighbours’ lawns and garden plants.
Seeding is progressing well, but a little behind this year, yet to be held up with a few days when a big low pressure weather system passed through with heavy dark clouds, heavy rain in some areas along with some very high winds, also reports of some funnel clouds about. Now it has all cleared back to bring along some sunny warm days. What the farmers all need to finish up the seeding.
Get well wishes go out to some of our close occupants in Bridge Road Condo in Battleford with health problems. Hope to see you all up and about soon.
The holiday season is upon us all now. There is a lot more highway traffic with the many motor homes, campers and all sizes of boats all heading for the lakes in addition to all sorts of other recreational things on the move.
