Walking or driving around the village you will see many "For Sale" signs. Some properties are open bare lots, some with trees and most have reduced prices, so I assume it must be a buyer's market out there. The prices on the five-plex are also reduced. One lot has several updated old tractors waiting for new owners. With new paint jobs, they are attractive looking, for their ages.
How nice to have longer days after the short winter ones that seemed to go on and on. But we are only a month away from them getting shorter again, so hope we have some nice summer days to enjoy.
This is the Year of the Nurse and Midwife in honour of the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth. Donations this week will go to the purchase of new birthing beds and fetal monitors at the Battlefords Union Hospital.
Reports in the Spiritwood newspaper of their village council and RM meetings are welcomed by the taxpayers. This is news the taxpayers deserve and would appreciate, after all they are footing the bill and it is only fair and right that they be informed of present and future plans that are in the works.
Physical distancing does not have to mean social distancing, now that we have iPads, laptops and even telephones. It is so easy to make contact with people who may be lonesome after being at home for weeks on end. A friendly voice can be a godsend to a lonely person. Just take the time to do it, at no cost, as a rule. I know I surely miss the folks I used to see weekly, but I have found projects to fill my time and, of course, my kids call often.
A cousin in Ontario reports offering to sew 25 personal protective equipment gowns. This didn't sound like a lot when she offered to do it, but at just past the half way mark, it does take time. They are asking for 10,000, so there is lots of sewing going on for Quinte Health.
The snow storm last week followed a funny pattern, hitting from Glaslyn to Meadow Lake and really dumping at Waskesiu, but missing Beauval country. The road blocks in the north are now up at this side of Green Lake by the Silver Lake Farm entry, and on the east side near the Cowan Lake dam. These are causing much controversy for people living in the north and making life there more difficult.
I happened to see on TV the song Johnny Reid wrote, dedicated to the people of Nova Scotia after their awful loss of loved ones. It was called "People Like You" and referred to the 22 angels looking down on the people. Local Rabbit Lake people will remember Johnny from the year he was the star performer at their summer jamboree and shared his special personality and voice.
Gardening is getting started and the ones around town are looking so nice after being worked over. This is a community that usually works well together, and the little park lost most of it's dead leaves and old growth, last week.
The farmers have been out seeding in some areas, but when you stay home you don't get to see the work going on. The golf course too is getting ready for the season to open May 15.
