Husband to Kayla. Father to Jorah & Briar. Silas & Riel. Teacher. Coach. Trying to live everyday with lots of smiles and laughs. 🌾🏫 🏒 🏋️♀️ 📚🏌️🏐
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Happy Father’s Day @trentfraseryqr
My old man has encapsulated the high shoulder theory for all 4 of his children and will continue for the many grandchildren.
Love the story Sahil shared this week.
“The greatest returns in life often come from the things we do with no expectation of return.”
Reminds me of the quote in the attached photo.
Powerful read from @sahilbloom sahilbloom.com/newsletter/th…
"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd" - Islwyn Jeneins
To lead is to have the courage to question the consensus. To carve your own path. To create by your own design.
- @SahilBloom
Maybe an over reactive opinion but I think Samuelson should sit on Saturday. Bring in Gilbert. Tell him to play mean against an aggressive Panthers team. Sammy can watch from the press box and realize his time needs to be earned.
Am I out of line? @CMDeDominicis @xBuffaloAnth
As the #DeadpoolAndWolverine movie gets released this week, I’d like to remind everyone that Wolverine is our Metis superhero. @metisnationsask Read this article for the proof! medium.com/@brettdouglasmcdo…
“Just because they carry it well doesn’t mean it isn’t heavy”
Payden Fraser retweeted
This is the best thing you will read all week...
A beautiful true story, written by a woman named Pam Kearney, on the impact of even the most tiny, inconsequential actions...
Jeff Woodward, my Uncle Shrek, continues this neat and often accurate tradition. He throws a mean elbow in the corners when we play hockey together.
For decades, one man in Saskatchewan became famous for predicting the weather using pig spleens. A tradition brought over by his ancestors from Sweden.
His name was Gus Wickstrom, and this is his story!
Born in 1938, Glen (Gus) saw his father Ernest and the neighbours in the area using pig spleens from the slaughtered pigs in the fall to predict the upcoming spring weather.
Ernest was taught the process of pig spleen predictions from his father Victor, who taught his son in the 1920s and 30s.
Victor was the one who brought the practice with him from Sweden, when he immigrated to Canada in 1899.
The neighbours of the Wickstrom family travelled to the family farm every November to watch Ernest make his predictions about the weather that would be coming in the next year.
Gus took a keen interest in the pig spleen prognostication and in the 1950s and 60s, he was taught how to do it himself from his father.
Preferring to use a mature hog, aged four to six years old, he obtained the pig spleens from a local Hutterite colony.
His abilities with predictions helped Gus to develop quite the following, thanks in no small part to his accuracy.
In 2002, he was 90 to 95 per cent correct with his predictions, and in 2003, while off by two weeks for the first three months of predictions, he was spot on for April, May and June.
Eventually, Gus became a major celebrity for his predictions. At one event in Swift Current, over 100 people came out to see him make his predictions.
He was featured in many newspapers such as The Globe and Mail, The Calgary Herald, the Lethbridge Herald, and even newspapers in Australia, as well as radio and televisions stations in the United States.
The Regina radio station 104.9 The Wolf checked with him every month to get his predictions. He was also featured in The Old Farmers Almanac because his predictions were so good.
He had exposure on a number of other television shows, including the immensely popular The Daily Show.
In all, he was accurate to the tune of 80 to 90 per cent with his predictions, better than even most weather services, certainly when it came to long-term forecasting.
Such was his renown, that the iconic Canadian show Corner Gas paid tribute to Gus by naming the publisher/editor/writer of the local newspaper The Howler, Gus Tompkins, as Gus lived in Tompkins.
Gus passed away in 2007
Now, his nephew Jeff Woodward continues the tradition and has seen some very impressive results over the years, as well as extensive media coverage.
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Payden Fraser retweeted
Today in 1885, Metis leader Louis Riel was put to death.
He was convicted of treason in Regina for his part in the North-West Resistance.
His trial ran from July 28 to Aug. 1, 1885.
Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald refused to grant leniency for Riel.
You can tell our daughter is being raised by two teachers. We read a Fancy Nancy book about camping and unprompted she has set up a camp ground with tents and other camping activities from the book. Books + Play = Learning. Now excuse me…off to roast a marshmallow.
My oldest, Jorah, was petrified of swimming beginning of the summer. Did some private lessons and now she is pretending to be Rosita off of “Sing 2” jumping off the diving board with no puddle jumper. It’s hard to get her out of the water now.
It’s a little surreal to think that my wife and I will have four children under the age of four years old. Two newborn boys, a two year old girl and a soon to be four year old girl. We are so blessed. Might start posting more about our hectic yet beautiful life!
Celebrating 5 years of marriage with my beautiful wife. We are so blessed to have our young and growing family! Kayla is doing an incredible job carrying our twin boys and we can’t wait to meet them in the next few months. instagram.com/p/Cu9syZiOf1lG…
Very important reminder. I can easily get hyper focused so I have an alarm that goes off and says “time to go home”.
#MakeNoise4Ed my girls provided some dancing entertainment before the powerful speeches. Capped the afternoon off supporting a @WascanaPlains student who advanced to the Optimist Club District Oratory competition in Medicine Hat.
