Prairie

I think that the team aspect is really more...

Is actually, if you want to think about it, the best case scenario for me is Lions Tap in Shakopee or wherever in Prairie, because that is like you order from someone and then they put your order in.

Somebody else may bring you your burgers.

And then there's like 50 other people in Lions Tap T-shirts running around.

What has been a long recovery, but did make a recovery from that.

Well, there's an interesting fundraiser coming up called Stars Rescue on the Prairies.

It's an annual campaign.

It takes five courageous community leaders to basically trade in their everyday work gear for Stars flight suits.

Okay, well, thank you for having us on here, and thank you to the Stars for putting this all on together.

You bet.

Jason LeBlanc, he is a lifelong auctioneer, strategic advisor for the Canadian market with Steffes Group, but he is also one of five community leaders taking part in the Stars Rescue on the Prairies campaign.

Stars.ca if you want to find out more details.

So I'm staying in the city today and go to the game tomorrow.

And then Sunday I'm doing that Prairie, the Prairie dog, uh, train ride.

Prairie dog central.

Brenda Bourns.

We're doing that.

Yeah.

Prairie dog central.

So I'm doing that.

Ooh, Pillow Talk.

From Prairie.

A stout with...

I can't read it.

And, you know, the more I've worked with them, the more I appreciate, uh, uh, their capabilities, um, and, uh, and so forth.

So, uh, where, uh, my ranch, which I call Soldier Mountain Highlands Ranch, um, which is SMH Ranch, uh, is up on the Camas Prairie, uh, northeast of Boise.

So we're at 5,200 feet.

So we're high elevation.

So hence the reason why I got highland cows.

They do do better in the in the in the winter environment.

But the Camas Prairie is a very unique ecosystem.

It's been known for centuries as kind of the breadbasket of southern Idaho.

Yeah, I really think we're – because we're now starting to think about playoffs, right? I think we're both in kind of that frame of mind.

I've been thinking a lot about this.

I think for TV ratings and just storylines, I would love to see Battle of the Prairies, Bombers, Riders, West Semi-Final.

And then because, you know, selfishly being in Edmonton, I would love to be able to see, you know, the Elks host a home playoff game for the first time since 2015.

I was in grade five the last time that that happened.

Yeah.

And, you know, going back to July, I heard so much across the Prairies about that, "Hey, we need one more shot of rain." And the shot of rain didn't happen in July.

The shot of rain happened at the end of August, beg- beginning of September.

Quite untimely for, for sure.

It's, it's crazy just, just how large of an area is under the same umbrella here.

It's, it's, it's wet all the way from some folks I've chatted with up in the Peace area.

Uh, sounds to me like it's wet down in, in Southern Alberta as well, and, and we are in the, in the East Prairies here as well.

We had quite a system g- roll through, uh, the weekend, dumping anywhere from half an inch to upwards of five inches in some spots.