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From the Back Pasture: More about the Thirties
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From the Back Pasture. Tuesday, August 21, 2012. More about the Thirties. August 21st, 2012. Amongst the people who made such a difference to the young of our community at that time were the Bomfords. Some years before a young Englishman had emigrated to our area and bought an orchard. I think it was the old Coulter place. When Hildred was ill after our oldest child was born, Dr. John Gibson came the five miles from Penticton to take her to hospital in his own car. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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From the Back Pasture. Monday, June 15, 2009. I seem to have a habit of drifting off into a comparison of the way things were in the past to what they are like today. Hard not to when you've been around for as long as I have. There is a lot of talk these days about organic grown fruit and veggies, as well as meat, and one is paying dearly for such produce. The trend to organic food (and even organic cosmetic products) is like a lot of other things these days, - blown entirely out of proportion. As a prim...
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From the Back Pasture: Back to the Thirties
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From the Back Pasture. Wednesday, August 15, 2012. Back to the Thirties. Back to the Thirties. It began to become more and more probable that a major confrontation was about to take place in Europe. There were already many places world wide where there was abuse of smaller countries by their aggressive neighbours. This created an uneasiness in society that one could not avoid; it had been only twenty years since the first world war had ended. We were a couple of fifteen year old kids headed for a war.
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From the Back Pasture: April 2009
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From the Back Pasture. Friday, April 17, 2009. What kept a Kid Busy in the 1930's. Well, it's hard to keep things in their proper chronological order when one starts looking back so many years, and for the type of person who has never written much beyond his own name, it's a chore! However, as youngsters we had it really good with the sling shots - "zipzips" - our name for the weapon of David and Goliath fame. Here, in a painting by Lorie Corbus, you can see what a serious business this was. Our days wer...
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From the Back Pasture: June 2009
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From the Back Pasture. Monday, June 15, 2009. I seem to have a habit of drifting off into a comparison of the way things were in the past to what they are like today. Hard not to when you've been around for as long as I have. There is a lot of talk these days about organic grown fruit and veggies, as well as meat, and one is paying dearly for such produce. The trend to organic food (and even organic cosmetic products) is like a lot of other things these days, - blown entirely out of proportion. As a prim...
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From the Back Pasture: August 2012
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From the Back Pasture. Tuesday, August 21, 2012. More about the Thirties. August 21st, 2012. Amongst the people who made such a difference to the young of our community at that time were the Bomfords. Some years before a young Englishman had emigrated to our area and bought an orchard. I think it was the old Coulter place. When Hildred was ill after our oldest child was born, Dr. John Gibson came the five miles from Penticton to take her to hospital in his own car. Wednesday, August 15, 2012. It began to...
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From the Back Pasture: March 2009
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From the Back Pasture. Friday, March 27, 2009. I read in the papers and see on the television concerns over what seems like an increase in bullying. And I remember my own experiences in my first year at school. I eventually gained confidence and became friends with the other boys. Eventually I grew into a good sized lad, and I can remember when I stepped in to stop some cases of bullying, mostly by talking. I came across an old newspaper dated in the early forties, and it had a story in it about justice ...
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From the Back Pasture: LOOKING BACK, UP AND DOWN, MAKES ONE WONDER WHAT’S AHEAD
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From the Back Pasture. Friday, February 4, 2011. LOOKING BACK, UP AND DOWN, MAKES ONE WONDER WHAT’S AHEAD. My contact with the Chinese as a young boy was not great but what there was left me with a good feeling about them that has stayed with me to this day . Back to the $1300 an ounce gold. By the way the other bit of paper was your hunting license and prospectors license. Seems to me that they also a small aluminum case that slid apart and you could put your licenses inside, to be carried on your b...
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From the Back Pasture
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From the Back Pasture. Monday, June 15, 2009. Here I am, back again! It seems impossible that the last ten weeks have disappeared and I have not written here, but it has, and the only excuse I have is to say I 'was under the weather'. Never having experienced this type of procedure before I was amazed at the number of family members who appeared on the scene. Hildred took a while longer to come back to normal but we are gardening again with a vengeance and giving TLC to the curly willows. G is for Goulash.
