We have yet again reached a new stage in our family. Our oldest son, Brandon, is working this summer for an environmental company out of Sherwood Park. This job is taking him to remote and distant places around our province and BC. What is kind of cool is that we now have a continuing family chat text conversation exchanging pictures of a variety of plants as we come upon them trying to properly identify them. The fact that nobody knows everything, has our little group pulling our combined info and experience together to come up with answers. Rather than stumbling, struggling and wasting time trying to figure it out on our own, we have reached out for help. Kind of a phone a friend idea. I'm not going to lie, it's been kind of cool and a real reminder that we can't always do everything on our own, that we are surrounded by people who can and want to help. We have a wealth of knowledge that may surprise each one of us right at our finger tips. Most times, we just need to ask. As humbling as it may be at times we are often given people and opportunities in life that allow us to both be helped and also help those around us.
For our family, we have been able to not only combine our knowledge to come up with answers but have also had the opportunity to share our day and even pictures of wildlife seen with each other really makes you feel a little closer than the distance between Stony Plain and Fort St. John. Although I have to admit I'm having a hard time matching the pictures and videos of bears and caribou. Not much more past coyotes and gophers around here. I'm holding out to see one of the wild boars I keep being warned about. Now that would be hard to beat!
Alana Regier
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