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Neighbourly Advice According to Ed

Like most folks I receive many forwarded videos from friends and family on my cell phone. I came across a video that a friend sent and so I hit the play button and listened. The clip was of a doctor giving advice on heart health.

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Hanbidge on Horticulture

This week we are talking orchids for a couple of reasons. One of my favourite people in the world recently passed. Among other things, she was an orchid addict and over her lifetime grew hundreds, if not thousands, of orchids.

“Some days and weeks are better than others when you have arthritis,” I told my old neighbour Ed, who lives in Saskatchewan. “Has it gone to your brain yet?” Ed asked me without any serious concern.

Think quick! Name an industry that’s saw its fleet shrink by 37 per cent in five years, yet its primary production increased? Trucking? Faming? Beef? Potash? Uranium? Rail? Ocean-going shipping? Cucumbers? Ding ding ding! Times up.

Earlier this winter I watched as a record amount of January rain filled the swamp at the back of our property. With the ground still locked in a hard freeze, there weren’t a lot of places to hold this deluge.

Rain, rain, go away. Don’t come back for another day, or week; by the way, given the forecast, at least a couple more weeks would be great.