Opinion

Ed, my neighbour next door, has a fair-sized chunk of resentment towards retirees in general. I assume this will change, when he becomes one himself. This will happen several years down the road.

It's long been a conceit in Saskatchewan that most of our people still have ties to the farm, or at least rural Saskatchewan. That's one of the reasons why long weekends and holidays see so much traffic coming out of the cities.

Ever since I started taking an interest in other things that life has to offer, my house has suffered. I used to take pride in clean, organized and de-junked closets and drawers.

I wasn't quite ready to leap out of bed when my alarm went off this morning. So I hit the snooze button. Ten more minutes ...??I hit it a few more times, each time relishing every moment of those 10 minutes. I enjoyed the gift of those extra minutes.

We would like to send a huge bouquet to SaskPower for replacing the pole between Cochin and Battlefords Provincial Park that was always home to a pair of Osprey. The pole was burned in a prairie fire and our power was out.

Dear Editor While it might be nice to have visitors to the Battlefords call in at the wildlife centre on Valley Road to view the exhibits, it is not an accessible or obvious place at which to stop, especially for RVers.

A gardener since a toddler, he was in retail nursery sales when I first met him. More recently he's been a horticulture consultant, workshop facilitator, regular CBC contributor, invited guest speaker, blogger and now author.

It was a small, un-momentous moment.?? Mom and I were sitting in the coffee shop at the bus depot one morning as we waited for her bus. One of the employees was washing the floor around us as we sipped our coffee. Mom commented on the clean floor.

Dear Editor The time has come to rename the long weekend in May "Victory Day" rather than the appellation Victoria, which refers to a deceased English Queen.

The weather is great, I hope spring is finally here. By the time you read this, the rain I had marked for May 18 and 19 will have happened. The hoar frost rains I mark usually come a day or two earlier than the date I mark down.