Tonight The Kid is staying with friends in Winnipeg while The Author and I are staying in the Best Western Pembina Inn & Suites on the Pembina Highway courtesy of Gilles Landry the owner and manager. Monsieur Landry will be hosting the Tour again when we return on October 14 through October 22 when Gerry will be the honourary captain of the Blue Bombers for their game against Montreal.
Finding ourselves alone for the first time in a while The Author and I decided to go for an early evening walk along some of the quieter streets near the south bank of the Red River. A father and son were playing catch with a football out in their front yard, and we stopped to chat.
THE AUTHOR: We're here on a book tour with a football player, a former Blue Bomber by the name of Gerry James. He played for the Bombers in the 50's and 60's. Ever heard of him?
THE DAD; No, I haven't heard of him but Bud Grant used to live just across the street. Just three houses down.
ME (to the Author after we have resumed our walk): Wow! Now what are the chances of our ending up on the street where Bud Grant used to live?
Does anyone remember what they used to say about Bud Grant?
God is not dead. He is alive and well and coaching the Minnesota Vikings.
(ps Don't tell Gerry I wrote this.)
As we prepare to leave the prairies and head south through the US en route to Hamilton Ontario I find myself musing about our days in Saskatchewan and how they kept taking me back to the first ten years of my own life,when I was once a Kid, too.
Evocative Prairie Sights and Sounds:
water towers
wind mills
back yard vegetable gardens
sloughs
flies
barn yard smells
crab apple trees
the wail of train whistles
onion domed churches
talk of snow for Hallowe'en
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