A catch up report

I apologize for not posting anything lately, I have been occupied with personal things and it seems to be rather quiet around the Ponderosa lately.
Actually the Winter Carnival has been on the go in February in Kirkland Lake, we have been hearing sounds in the sky for two weekends (Feb 26/27 and Feb 27/28) We finally found out what the noises were, there was a helicopter offering rides to people letting them see what the area looked like around our town only it was an aerial view for a change. I have always desired to take one of these rides but maybe next year.
Cabaret was playing at the LaSalle Theatre from Feb 24 to 27th and I hear that it was a very enjoyable show that they put on. Good work people.
This current weekend, the Baptist church sponsored a fund raising dinner for Teen Challenge to raise money to pay for a year's stay at the Teen Challenge ranch ( I believe it is at the Sault Ste Marie ranch) for a young man in need of rehabilitation. We like to support the work of this association as they definitely do good work with the people who go through the program.
Our church, Living Faith Assembly Pentecostal Church, hosted a group of young people from Cochrane, the Cochrane Young People. There were a total of ten young people, five making up a musical group and five younger boys and girls who made up a drama group. All, in all, the group put on an excellent program of music and skits. After the service, the visitors and our own group enjoyed a carry in lunch in the basement as well as socializing with each other afterwards.
Besides these events, I have been busy with our youngest daughter moving from one house to another and also taking care of some needed medical affairs for myself. Nothing serious, just things that needed to be done.
I will try to post more items in the near future as I find subjects to write on and pictures to take.
I just remembered an item that may be worthy of mentioning. Last summer, myself and a few friends installed a new steel roof on our shop to replace the old dilapidated shingle one that was on there before. As you know, our weather is improving with the warmer temperatures working on our snow on the ground and also on my steel roof. The snow decided to slide down the roof and onto the ground in front of my shop creating a pile about 18 inches deep from the deck stairs to the far side of the garage door. This happened while my wife and I were having our Pentecostal snooze on Sunday afternoon. I went out for a walk that evening and saw the results of my avalanche of snow but decided to work on it Monday morning. Monday morning came and when I tried to blow the snow with my blower, the snow was almost like a block of ice since the temperature had dropped since Sunday evening and had frozen the slushy snow. I had to hire a backhoe to remove the snow from the front area and that was easily done by Mr Crema.
Well I will say goodbye for now and will try to report more in the near future.
Wilf Blakey