I wrote that over a week ago so now things are much greener and seeding is well underway. We had a shower of rain on Tuesday which freshened things up too. Here's a picture of fall rye that Clare seeded on rented land west of here.
Clare had to take a picture of this seeding outfit complete with a Norsk flag on the back!
I had to phone Vivian Vinge in Weyburn this morning to tell her that the ferns I got from her yard are poking through the ground beside the deck. The tulips are soon ready to bloom. I need to plant new ones this fall as the blooms are quite small now.
We have a new driver in the family! Abbey went for her test last week and is now driving to school and wherever else she needs to go. We are looking forward to their school musical later this month - "Beauty and the Beast". We are going to the Sunday afternoon performance.
On Saturday I went to Lampman for Lindsay and Jamie's dance recital. I took my friend Olga Maxwell along. Alan stayed home as Clare needed help moving to the land out west. Olga doesn't have any granddaughters so she can share mine. We had lunch in Estevan and got to Lampman School just as the first number was on stage! (Thanks for saving front row seats for us, Shauna!) The recital moved along smoothly with an intermission half way through. Jamie and Lindsay were in seven of the numbers and did a duet that was special "Dance with Somebody". We enjoyed visiting at Kirk and Shauna's after the program, stopped in Estevan for some groceries and KFC for the guys at home. I'm having trouble getting pictures on here today so will update later.
Dawson and Eric and enjoying playing in a fastball A league, the first time they have had a team in Milestone for these boys. They have played Swift Current and Regina. Melville and Radville are also in their league so maybe we can see them play in Radville as that's the closest they will come. Dawson has done some pitching and Eric is the catcher.
I like to keep you up to date on athletes with a Torquay connection.
Here's a picture of Cole Fonstad, a 17 year old who has been playing junior hockey with the Prince Albert Raiders. He was chosen to play on the Canadian team in the U18 IIHF tournament in Russia. We watched several of the games and it was exciting to hear the Fonstad name when he was in action on the ice. He is Marvin and Lyla Fonstad's grandson. His parents are Merle and Donna (Tosczak) Fonstad of Estevan. Cole has a good chance of being chosen in the NHL draft which is happening later in June. Congratulations Cole! He will be back in Estevan for his grade 12 grad next month.
Here's another young athlete, this one with connections to the Erickson family. 16 year old Bjorn Markentin is my brother Merv and Jan's grandson, son of Joan and Morris. Bjorn was awarded a score of a perfect 10 by all five judges in a recent Western Canada diving competition in Regina! Getting one perfect score is quite a challenge and to have five judges all rate him as perfect is a rarity. Congratulations to Bjorn, his coaches and parents who support him. He and his older brother Hans moved to Regina from Saskatoon to enable Bjorn to attend a sports school where he can work on classes in the morning and sports in the afternoon.
Bjorn's perfect score was attained in a reverse two and a half flips from a 10 metre platform at the men's open division in Western Canadian Championships at Regina's Aquatic Centre. Grandpa and Grandma Erickson were there to cheer him on! Maybe we'll watch him at the Olympics someday!
Today was Mothers Day. We were at Trinity for morning worship. Adele served a special "Happy Mothers Day" cake, half white and half chocolate. Alan made omelettes for lunch and supper was KFC, twice backed potatoes (from the freezer) corn on the cob and a tossed salad with angel food cake, whipped cream and strawberries for dessert. I hadn't made angel food for ages but ran across my pan and decided to try it again. The pan is like a large loaf pan so I cut the cake in half and freeze one part. It's nice to slice as every piece is flat so toppings don't run off. It reminded me of my good friend and neighbour Pearl. She made a lot of angel food cakes and I didn't so I loaned her my pan. When they moved to town she gave it back so I think of her whenever I use the pan.
I talked to all four of my "kids" today and Clare was here in person this morning. Then he left for Weyburn to spend the rest of the day with Jodi and Abbey.
In memory of my mother, Hulda Svanhild (Haaland) Erickson I will close with pictures of her taken on Mothers Day. The first one is in 1963 at Mervin's grad at LCBI, Outlook. The bottom was taken in their home in Saskatoon, not sure what year. The four roses represent her four children. She was born in 1919 and passed away in 1984 at the age of 65. That didn't seem so young to us then but now that all four of her children are 65 and older, our perspective has changed. I am thankful to be growing old as she didn't have that privilege. But she made such good use of the years she had. Her hands were rarely idle - she baked, decorated cakes, sewed dresses, including my wedding dress, and then outfits for her twelve grandchildren, stitched Christmas stockings for those twelve (all in time for Christmas one year) She crocheted curtains, doll clothes, pillowtops and stitched many wall hangings. She helped work on the first Frontier history book, "The Frontiersmen" published in 1967. She wrote letters to me every week when I went to Teachers College and even after I was married and lived on the farm at Torquay. She taught Norwegian classes and wrote letters to family in Norway in Norsk of course! She and Dad travelled to Norway in 1969 for a six week trip to visit many of her first cousins. A book could be written about her life.
Next year would have been her 100th birthday so I think our Erickson family should have a display of her works as we have saved many of the clothes that she made for us. Last summer we had a fashion show at our Erickson Reunion in Cypress with grandchildren modelling many of the outfits she had made. Maybe we can do an even bigger one, perhaps in Frontier!
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| Mothers Day 1963 |
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| Mothers Day in Saskatoon |
Thanks Mom for all the love you showed us, most of it from your wheelchair from the age of 33, after you had polio in 1952 before Sandra was born. You never complained about your situation, were just so thankful it wasn't your arms that were affected. And we were also blessed with a very loving and patient Dad who was a model husband and a gentleman at all times. We were so blessed.
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