This is Elkhorn Lodge – sorry, no picture! Just imagine a scenic lodge overlooking brush with horses frolicking in the pastures.
We arrived Monday and will return to Kindersley Thursday. Until then, we hope to get some rest and refreshment. I’ve been a bit sick, but no better place than here!!!
So, we found out a West Jet flight to Winnipeg is on sale for “cheap” this weekend!
My wife and I are planning a trip to the windy city in March. The travel time in a car is around 12 hours. The cost is around $250 of gas.
So $83.00 sounded pretty good. Of course that is for one person. Then start adding the taxes. $35.00 to fly out and around $45.00 to fly back.
So (83+35+83+45) X 2 = 492.00 (or roughly thereabouts!). Then we would need to rent a car. Let’s throw in roughly $100.00 for the weekend. So almost $600.00.
Add to that they we were going with another couple who would also have to spend around $500.00 to fly out with us. Plus a two hour ride back and forth to the airport ($40.00). So, let’s say $1,150 or so to go to WPG and back.
Let’s look at this in another light. If we drive out all the way, we get to talk and talk and drive and drive and enjoy each other’s company (we are all friends). There are intangible benefits here!
Take the $250.00 away from the $1,150.00 and we have nearly $900.00 to play with! In shopping terms that means we have saved ourselves enough money to buy something else!
Imagine what the $900 will buy both of us couples. Groceries for six weeks, heating and power bills for a month, or maybe a few nights out on the town!
I feel better already. And to think all of this extra money might never have been ours!
Today I received word that someone had died.
The rumour continued unabated for a short time.
Others heard via the grapevine! Some were already rearranging their calendars for the funeral!
Its amazing how your mind goes into high gear, your calendar gets cleared and you are soon wondering how you would describe that person if you were asked to do a eulogy.
The rumours of the death, though, were greatly exaggerated!
I almost felt robbed when I heard they had not died!
In those few short moments — from the beginning of the rumour to the quashing thereof — my coming week had been freed up. Placing the importance of celebrating another’s life ahead of my own often frantic activities was refreshing. I’m thinking scaling back my activities and reflecting on the lives of those around me wasn’t such a bad thing.
The election in Canada is less than a week away.
We will be away from our constituency on Monday, at meetings in Manitoba. So last Friday we were at the advanced polling station at noon and placed our ballots in the box by 12:30.
Now, the excitement of the final week of electioneering is lost on me!
All the hype, jabs, and momentum mean nothing. My vote is unchangeable!
In a lot of life I have been ahead of the wave. I took information science back in the days when we were just beginning to realize that the information age was about to dawn. I was a part of the beginning of the worship transitions in late 20th century Protestant churches. I’m feeling like I’ve heard it all when I hear the term “emerging church” – even though that is the current wave pounding on the church! And now, I’m listening to the electioneering, knowing that I’ve “been there, done that – got the vote cast”!!
Maybe I should just turn the TV off!