Casting off for the first time!

Hi folks:
As my wife and business partner Valerie, my children (AND grandchildren), staff, and municipal colleagues will readily attest, this particular blog author is seldom short of words. However, this evening – as I approach my first attempt at writing a blog – I find myself peculiarly short of things to say!

Operating a passenger boat service in a northern prairie city like Saskatoon is most certainly a seasonal affair, and at this time of writing, our little motorships Saskatoon Princess and Meewasin Queen are safely up on blocks in our boatyard outside the city in a small town named Hafford, which I happen to think is just the best place in the world to live. We currently have unseasonably warm weather (like gosh, it only went down to –6 degrees Celsius last night, and there is no snow on the ground just yet!) And today was sunny and a balmy 7 degrees above zero (that’s 20 degrees for our American friends); furthermore, our province’s source of common passion – the Saskatchewan Roughriders – won the western football final this afternoon and the team is headed to the Grey Cup next week in Calgary. Ah, so many reasons to rejoice!

I hope this blog will be informative and fun for its readers, and for me as its author and moderator. I look forward to receiving readers’ comments about what is on these pages, as well as pictures that are relevant to the marine industry, our company, our City of Saskatoon, and tourism in general. That is, after all, the business we are in.

May the nighttime find you everywhere at home!
PGK