I know!

We had a great time!

It turned out well and think we’ll do more like this. I’ve seen a lot of old bird’s eye photos of small towns in archives so we’ll have plenty of fodder.

Our favs too but always the first to be put aside when it gets busy. Still, we have dozens shot but as yet unpublished and more planned so there will be new ones down the road. Promise!

Small towns are a treasure and worth knowing.

We’ve heard from a few folks who have…and now we know everyone there!

You’ll get no argument from us and make everywhere we go a place of adventure.

Thank you for adding to the story!

This was a quick little diversion from the road and we hope to come back. Thanks for commenting Jenn!

Wow, what amazing memories! Thank you for sharing!

I remember finding a bin of peanuts in the store and eating them till I got sick. Why they let me do that I don’t know. I was only about two years old at the time.

My grandfather was a carpenter and made some miniature grain elevators that I thought were pretty neat.

They moved from Delburne to a farm in Ardley nearby in the early 1960s. There were some old single storey store buildings they’d moved from somewhere else and used as granaries.

That farmhouse had no indoor plumbing either. There was a biffy outside guarded by a mean black and white striped rooster. I guess they got tired of me refusing to go out to the biffy because my grandmother cut the rooster’s head off and we ate him for dinner.

My parents put me on the train in Calgary once with a cardboard sign around around my neck. I was too young to read but it probably had my name and where I should get off the train.

I don’t think there’s anything left of the town of Ardley. The farm is still in the family as far as I know and the postal address is Delburne.