We separately asked eight random people, “What’s stressing you right now?” They each burst into laughter before confessing there were too many things to list. When pressed, they said some of the worst stressors included politics, money, work, health, violence/crime, kids, parents, family, the environment and climate change. When asked, “What does stress do to...
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Rauncie Kinnaird builds a dream at Lake Diefenbaker
As a youngster, Rauncie Kinnaird rode her horse through the coulees around Lake Diefenbaker, just one of the many activities she enjoyed growing up in the area. She likely could not have foreseen that many years later, she would be developing a resort on its north shore. Kinnaird and her husband Rob were no strangers...
Twelve ideas to refresh your landscape
Start your refresh job not with a shovel or pruning shears, but with a pencil and paper. Eliminate a lot of hard work and discover ways to minimize your effort. Draw your house and yard to scale, then do a thorough analysis of the existing features and structures, soil quality and the plant conditions. The...
Vaccination process went smoothly, efficiently for me
I am pleased to announce that I am jumping with joy, having been jabbed with the Pfizer vaccine. Not only that, but the process of receiving the vaccination went smoothly and efficiently. I am almost at the point of being a little forgiving of the provincial government and its handling of the COVID pandemic, because...
Things are looking up, I hope, but what a year
As I write this, it has been a year (and a couple of days) since Saskatchewan went into pandemic lockdown. A year. It seems incredible to me, and the more I think about it, the more bizarre it seems. Those first three months were so awful, weren’t they? I think many of us felt like...
My Lincoln gets reprieve from the scrap heap
My mom and I were having lunch a few Sundays ago, when she noticed someone looking at my car. “I think somebody just hit you,” she said. I didn’t think so, given I was in a chair in her living room with a TV tray in front of me. It turned out, a person renting...
Lucky Shamrock Cookies
It’s your lucky day because you don’t have to search for the pot of gold under the rainbow for this winning recipe. Throw out the old Irish classics and sweeten things up this year with some mint chocolate chip fun. If you’re in a crunch for St. Patrick’s Day and need something glowing with green,...
Real estate market sizzles for sellers
The real estate market in Saskatoon is off to a hot start! The number of sales in January 2021 are up more than 26 per cent over January 2020, and the inventory is down by over 40 per cent. What this means for sellers is that if your house is priced right you will be...
Goaltending boosts Habs’ fortunes
If goaltending quality were used to rate the Canadian teams in the National Hockey League, mark the Montreal Canadiens down as the presumptive champion of the North Division this summer. As the seven teams approached the one-third mark of the 56-game regular season, with nary a postponement due to COVID-19 (as teams in the other...
Canada should compete at 2022 Olympic Games
I remember watching the track and field championships at my Saskatoon high school when I was in Grade 9. The year was 1969. The track meet was the qualifying event for the city championships. Aden Bowman Collegiate owned the city title in those days. I remember being enthralled watching a girl, as we said in...