
A Long Way From Town

Needlepoint picture of “The Old Home Place” by the author’s dad, Walter Meili, which he created as part of rehabilitation following his stroke
February 2025 update. Storms sometimes also come from the South.
A glacial erratic is a glacially deposited rock differing from the type of rock native to the area in which it rests. Erratics, which take their name from the Latin word errare (“to wander”), are carried by glacial ice, often over distances of hundreds of kilometres. Erratics can range in size from pebbles to large boulders such as Big Rock (16,500 metric tons) in Alberta.