Musings of a Northern Canadian Senior.

It's rhubarb season! As soon as the weather turns sunny and warm, we know that fresh rhubarb will begin popping up in our gardens everywhere. Oh, what a treat! I absolutely love rhubarb. It reminds me of my childhood. Limited often to just a few weeks in the spring and early summer, many of us have childhood memories of walking out to the garden with a bowl of sugar and dipping in a fresh raw stalk.   As a senior now not as agile but good memories! Rhubarb Bike Runs were popular in the past with one of our local fruit rescue organizations, Operation Fruit Rescue Edmonton. My Memories were from June in 2015 to 2017 when the weather was great I led a group of volunteers enjoyed   getting out on our bikes. On our 2016 Rhubarb Run, we picked 60-75 lbs with donations to local charities, Ronald McDonald House and Youth Emergency Shelter, as the produce was shared between the homeowners, volunteers and charity donations.The next year five riders signed up and two could not make it.....