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	<description>Slice of Life Humour Columnist</description>
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		<title>You is Important</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading Kathryn Stockett’s novel ‘The Help’. It came out three years ago so I’m a little late. In fact, it has already been made into a movie starring Emma Stone, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer which I haven’t yet seen. The book gives a telling account of life as an African American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Close Encounters of the Wild Kind</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve had a very animal filled day. With horses, sheep, chickens, dogs and a cat you could say every day is animal filled around here, but this day was more about wildlife than the domestic type. It started early this morning when I glanced out the window and saw the most amazing sight. Two flickers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A River Runs Through It</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I got up, made a cup of tea, leaned against the kitchen counter and took in the view of the river fed lake below our cabin. Then I walked over to another window and had a look at the waterfall tumbling through our garden. Sounds pretty picturesque hey? You might even be experiencing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garage Sale Mania</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neither Darcy nor I realized just how excited we were about heading off on our first garage sale Saturday of the year until we were about a mile from home. That was when we noticed two things. One, we still had the tank in the back of our truck that we use for hauling water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mother of all Rain Cheques</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Up here in the Peace Country we have had three drought years in a row. The fire pit we bought in 2009 has never had a fire in it. Within days of the snow melting, fire bans would fall into place and stay there until the end of summer. The ground was so dry it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baad Man in the Neighbourhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a baad man on the loose in our neighbourhood. He’s been stopping his truck at the end of our driveway to baa at our sheep. He did it twice this week and once the week before. Maybe he’s doing it every day. Maybe multiple times a day – it’s hard to know for sure. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>See You Next Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m a Canuck fan by marriage. For the 31 seasons we have been together I have watched Darcy’s hopes rise every year only to be dashed to pieces in the end. “Oh well,” he says at the end of every hockey season. “Next year.” And sure enough, when the next season skates forward on its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Father’s Day Dad</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With father’s day coming up it seems a fitting time to pay tribute to my dad. I spent a lot of time with him while growing up on our cattle ranch. I was the youngest of three daughters. I think he was resigned to my having to be the son he would never have and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asparagus Blues</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years I postponed planting asparagus because of the commitment factor. It takes three years from the time you plant until you get a harvest. Who knew what could happen in three years? We could move, die or not even like asparagus by that time. Then I started thinking how if I had just planted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is That You Karl?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 16:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The snow has only disappeared for three weeks and already our yard has gone wild. The grass needs mowing, weeds are busting out all over the place while the vegetable seeds bide their time. In the garden quack grass and I resume our battle where we left off last fall. I shovel up its long [...]]]></description>
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