WEDNESDAY WORDS 5

LEST WE FORGET
painting on the side of a building in Lacombe, AB
(the grass and flowers are real)

I have used this picture before on my Remembrance Day blog, but it's especially appropriate this year.  Just last Monday the people of Lacombe gathered for a memorial service for a hometown hero, Master Corporal Byron Graff.  He, along with 16 others, was killed at the end of Oct. when a vehicle full of explosives hit the bus that he was on in Kabul, Afghanistan.  This happened just weeks after returning from leave to meet his newborn daughter.  Mandy and Mareena, our two nieces who live in Lacombe, took their children to wave flags along the route to the memorial service.  Global Edmonton interviewed Mandy and it was on the supper news on Monday night.  There's a link on my Facebook page and maybe I can add it here too.Hundreds turn out for memorial service  

There is a Remembrance Day service tomorrow morning at St. Joseph's Care Home so I will go with Howard to the service at 10:00.  We aren't having a service in Torquay this year so I'm glad that we can attend this one.  We often watch the service from Ottawa on November 11th too.

One of the many things that I enjoy about this house is the view of the sunrise each morning.  There are many windows that face the south-east so I get a perfect view each day.  I took some pictures last week so I'll put one on my next blog, when I get the forgotten cord from the farm.

I'm planning to go to the farm on Thursday.  On Friday morning Clare and I are meeting a fellow who is interested in "house sitting" for us this winter.  I need to do some tidying up before he comes out!

 I'm getting flatbread orders for Christmas so I'll get a few batches mixed up while I'm at the farm.  I like to mix the dry ingredients for four batches at a time and freeze them.  Then it's just to add the buttermilk and I'm ready to roll and bake a batch.  Laurel has suggested that we have a Christmas baking day here with the girls some weekend.  I hope that works out.  The boys are busy with hockey most weekends.

It's time to do some practising on the organ before I watch 100 Huntley at eight so will sign off for now.