Well, it is Wednesday and the last day of a leap year February. A truly useless piece of trivia, I suppose, but I found it interesting anyways. Probably a symptom of how tired I have been. I seem to be recovering from the weekend, physically at least. Emotionally is probably another story. Joan and I were in Meadow Lake on the weekend for the funeral of Newton Friedrich, a very dear friend who died at 54 after a 10-month long bout with cancer. He, his wife Kelly, his mother and father, and his daughter Vawn have all been very important in our lives. they are the kind of people who pick up strays and welcome them into their home. They certainly adopted us when we moved to Meadow Lake in 1987. The funeral itself was an incredible celebration of his life, with the themes of faith, openness and cowboy being central. The Alliance Church (largest in town) was packed to SRO.