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Oh Deer!!

Last Friday, January 17, we were waiting for Dad to get home from work, so we could drive to a 7:00 Bible Study in Hepburn. Around 6: 30, we phoned  to ask him where he was, and he told us that he had hit a deer! We quickly jumped in the van and drove down Highway 312. When we saw two vehicles parked by the side of the road, we pulled up and exited the van, with warnings to be careful. After seeing the smashed front of the van and the exploded airbag, we saw the police truck barreling down the highway and pulling up, and then we had to leave!

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Our van is the green one in the middle of the picture.

 

Watchdogs were keeping our van safe in the jail :)

The watchdogs were carefully guarding all the vehicles in the jail!

 

We found out that the other vehicle at the scene had hit the deer before Dad, and it had rolled over their car and landed smack-dab in front of Dad! The man in the other car had tried to warn Dad by flashing his brights. Dad looked down to see if his were on, looked up and plowed into the deer at full speed, which, in turn sent the deer flying, the airbag exploding, and Dad halting. We are thankful that Dad didn’t get hurt!

James 4: 14, 15- Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

What A Blast!!

Yesterday was just one of those days that almost  “blows you away”!:-)

Windy, Windy

We had winds over 100 km/hr and the temperature was above 0, which is very rare for January! In the morning a crane’s boom got swung around by the wind, knocking out the power supply to Rosthern and area for a couple of hours.

Hockey Night In Rosthern

In the – 25 C weather (not even counting wind chill), we had the Noel family over to play some rousing games of hockey. It has been a tradition for many, many years in both of our families to build a backyard rink. We had lots of fun playing (“non-contact”??) hockey!  Here is a shot of us taken by Dad  before we went in.

Hockey With Noels

We concluded the evening with a wonderful Bible sharing time.

Recording 101

As the new year began, so did the new CD project! We started recording on January 2nd, so the third tiring day is over. Just as we were leaving the studio today, we asked Darrell, the fellow who is doing our recording, a few questions about his marimba, and out of the blue, he started playing “In the Rifted Rock I’m Resting”.  So here is the video of Darrel Bueckert.

If you would like to check out a CD of Darrell playing the marimba, Click HERE!

Pictures of our recording session coming soon.