Famous Yards.

Well, as you can see by the sign, it's official. We are the "Yard of the Week". Pictures will be in the Westwind Weekly this week. We usually get it on Fridays in the mail. Guess now we're famous. They put up the sign so people can find the yard of the week when they go looking for it. But I highly doubt that anyone will drive out here just to see a yard. The women who came and took the pictures a couple of weeks ago are coming tomorrow to give us a plaque or something. We'll put it in a prominent place of course. Unfortunately with the wet and cold weather we've had for the last three weeks or so since the wedding, the lawns are long and unkempt, and the yard really doesn't look stellar. Oh well!!!

We got the phone call today and OUR PILLOWS ARE IN LETHBRIDGE!!!! We'll probably try to go get them tomorrow. They'd better be the right ones this time. Actually the lady who helped Mom pick them out from a different company the last time we were in Bowdens is the person who left the message on the answering machine. So that fact alone makes it more promising that they are actually the right pillows.

Of course with the new pillows here, nothing will be looking right, so Mom will be even more motivated to want to start painting walls and replacing drapes. All the carpets in the house are being cleaned this Friday. So it has begun!!!

Just to let everyone know, I have been re-elected as a Trustee for another three year term. Of course it was by acclamation, But surely that means that everyone thinks I'm doing a great job. (That or no one cares). But I would hate to think that people are that apathetic about something so important. Lance Miller from Magrath got in by acclamation also, but all the other Trustees are being challenged, so there will be elections in Stirling, Raymond, Cardston and the Tri-Towns out west.

I'm looking forward to this new term as it will have many challenges and changes as Alberta Education is trying to redesign and revitalize the education process in Alberta. Stay tuned. I'm also in the middle of setting up and starting a Trustee Blog that will be accessible to all the Westwind constituents to see if I can get a dialogue going with the parents and students or whom ever in Westwinds. We got technology and we should be using it. There are a few Trustees in other divisions especially in the bigger cities who have done this, and I have followed a few of them. It's just another way to engage the public.

It looks like the weather is going to be really nice for a few days. Thank you for all the notes, blogs, phone calls and etc for Mom for her Birthday, she loved and appreciated them all.

Well that's all for now.