The funeral was on Thursday in Weyburn for Ed Conrad. Our niece Mareena is married to Ed's grandson, Gavin Conrad. Mareena, Gavin and family were holidaying in SK when Grandpa Ed passed away in Shaunavon hospital last Sunday at the age of 96. He had been in relatively good health until suffering a stroke just the week before. We attended the funeral service and were able to visit with the family for awhile after the lunch at the Wheatland Senior Centre. Gavin's had stayed at Clare and Jodi's the night before. In fact, Clare outfitted Gavin for his role of pallbearer as Gavin had no dress clothes along. Talk about giving someone the shirt off your back - it was also a tie, belt, suit and shoes! Gavin's went on to Milestone and spent the night at Laurel and Greg's, the first time Mareena and the kids had been there.
On Friday evening we were at the Holzer farm just eight miles NE of our farm. A large crowd gathered to celebrate the 100th anniversary of this farm with a BBQ of home made sausages and many delicious salads, baking and a special anniversary cake. Sabe and Tracy have sold their house in Torquay and will soon be moving to a new house on the farm. What a fitting way to celebrate this milestone - moving back to the original Holzer homestead. Kyla shared a history of the farm, not an easy task when she read aboutthe sudden passing of her father Richard three years ago. Richard and Howard were born the same year and both took over farming from their dad's and grandpa's. Now Sabe and Clare are the fourth generation farmers.
Saturday afternoon Howard and I went uptown to the quilt show at the Community Centre. The former school gym had around 200 quilted items on display! Members of the quilt guild had spent two days setting up these displays and their creative ideas and attention to detail were very evident. We were even served coffee or tea (along with strawberry shortcake!) on dainty china cups and saucers with silver spoons. Even the gray metal chairs were transformed by white floor length slipcovers. I had been very impressed with the previous quilt show they put on and this one was even more amazing! It was great to visit with out of town guests who I knew - Nancy Shirley of Estevan and Vivian Vinge of Weyburn. I asked if pictures were allowed and since they were I'll show a few of them here. It would be impossible to pick a favorite quilt but one wall hanging by featured guest quilter, Leona Tessier of Weyburn, was very special. It was called Farmer Wall Hanging. The other pictures are of a children's corner and a Christmas corner. Being a former grade one teacher, I quickly spotted two familiar Dick and Jane readers on the little blue rocking chair! The picture frame on the rug in the Christmas picture is done in hardanger. A window, cutout in the hardanger, pictures a Christmas tree behind it. I am working on a hardanger wallhanging for Jolene Ledene's wedding so I always enjoy seeing other's projects.
Howard was feeling well enough to attend church services this morning, for the first time in over a month! Pastor Cicely is in Saskatoon for convention this weekend so a message prepared by Bishop Cindy Halmorson was shared by Tressa Friess. We joined several others for lunch at Torquay Cafe, then decided to have another look at those beautiful quilts. Of course we got in on coffee and dessert again too so that was perfect after our noon meal.
This evening we helped Don Hurren celebrate his 40th birthday at the Hurren farm ten miles NE of our farm. Our familes spent a lot of time together when our kids were young. Bob and Phyllis' five and our four shared many special times so it was good to gather again at their farm with many good memories. Don and Clare were born two months apart so have been good friends all their lives. Now they both are farming and also holding down "city jobs".
Well, it's past my bedtime so this will be it for the week's update. Have a great week.
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