Jean and Joan had their 60th birthday on Jan. 15, 2014. We went to Alberta to celebrate. We visited the Wrobel families on Jan 14-16 and visited my sister Jan and her husband near High River Jan 16-19. The photos below are mainly from the birthday party on Jan 15 and from Jan and Rich's ranch.
In the photos below the people are Mike (Joan's father), Jessie (Joan's mother), Jean (Joan's twin), Ern (Jean's husband), Susanna, Karen, Matt, and James (Jean and Ern's children), and Whitney (Matt's wife).
The photos linked below are an annimated gif that blinks between views of the river by Jan and Rich's ranch from before and after the June 2013 flood. The main buildings of their ranch are at the end of the curvy road that enters from the bottom center. You can see several buildings. The river bed was widened considerably and straightened some. The main erosion was on the far side where there was considerable damage. Note the after image is the more green one. The before image is nearly black and white. The after image is from Bing. The before image is from Mapcarta (probably from Google). Sorry about the errant cursor in the before image.
Before and after flood views of Roenish ranch.
Here is another annimated gif, but with 4 images. The first 3 are from 2002, 2007, and 2012 from Google while the last is from Bing and is after the 2013 flood. There was a flood in 2005. It looks like that had a bigger impact on Jan's ranch, although the water didn't get into the house as it did in 2013.
Roenisch ranch on 4 dates between
2002 and late 2013.
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