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(This entry was originally posted on Facebook in 2017) Today’s families have: a playroom; a neighborhood play structure; school gymnasiums. We had a barn!! Having a barn was like having your own personal gymnasium! We jumped from 10-foot high platforms into the haystack. We climbed 20 feet up the slings and then through the openContinue reading “Grandpa’s Memory Journal, Entry #15: 1916 Barn Part 3 – “Play””

(This entry was originally posted on Facebook in 2017) Life growing up on a farm was a mixture of work and play. Often the two would blur together. As we got older, my sister and I had to take turns helping Mom clean up in the kitchen or helping Dad work in the barn. WeContinue reading “Grandpa’s Memory Journal, Entry #14: The 1916 Barn Part 2, “Work””

(This entry was originally posted on Facebook in 2017) For decades, this barn proudly proclaimed the year that it had been built. This would have been 11 years after Charles J. Boyle filed his homestead in 1905. It was four years after he married Mossie Kitson in 1912. Two years after Graham was born inContinue reading “Grandpa’s Memory Journal, Entry #13 – The 1916 Barn: Part 1 – “History””

(This entry was originally posted on Facebook the week of February 25, 2017) (Back to Start of Grandpa’s Memory Journal)  This picture below is the last, and perhaps only, picture that I took of Larry and Connie Boyle. It was taken at Larry’s Mom’s 90th Birthday in 2006. Larry’s memorial service was Saturday, February 25,Continue reading “Grandpa’s Memory Journal, Entry #12 – “Which Mrs Boyle is Admitting Which Mrs Boyle?””

(This entry was originally posted in Facebook in 2016) I truly have few regrets in life … but I do regret that we did not accept the invitation to stay for “The Birthday Party in Newfoundland”. During the summer of 1977 we did a 3-week camping trip to Newfoundland. Amongst many memorable experiences, the mostContinue reading “Grandpa’s Memory Journal, Entry #11 – Birthday Party in Newfoundland”

(This entry was originally posted in Facebook in 2016) In September 1970 I began my career in computers and my career at SaskTel. I had graduated from the U of S, Regina Campus (now known as U of R) the previous May. In the absence of any job offers, I worked that summer as aContinue reading “Grandpa’s Memory Journal, Entry #10 – My First (Career) Job”

(This entry was originally posted in Facebook in 2016) The short answer: Beverly Seafoot and I lived together BEFORE WE MET! That happened because we both lived at the Wascana Student Housing Co-op when we went to university. This housing co-op occupied a number of renovated old houses on 15th Ave in Regina. I beganContinue reading “Grandpa’s Memory Journal, Entry #9 – How I met your (Grand)Mother”

(This entry was originally posted in Facebook in 2016) We spent Christmas 1955 in Uncle Al and Aunt Wilma’s house on Jessie Avenue in Winnipeg. My Grandpa Butters, Mom’s Dad, had passed away the previous March so this was a very significant Christmas for the family. We got to Winnipeg by taking a passenger trainContinue reading “Grandpa’s Memory Journal, Entry #8 – Christmas 1955”

(This entry was originally posted in Facebook in 2016) I grew up in the heart of the prairies, but I was also fancied myself as a mariner! This is a picture of my main raft that my grandfather built for me in the late 1950’s. This one was made from thick planks, probably 3×10 inchesContinue reading “Grandpa’s Memory Journal, Entry #6 – Rafting”