We’re sitting inside our truck this morning, hiding away from the rain while waiting for an estate sale to open. Naturally, we are browsing Facebook to help pass the time when we see a post telling us that the wooden grain elevator in Hodgeville Saskatchewan has been demolished.

Although we are 618km away from Hodgeville, we cannot help but feel a sense of melancholy as another prairie icon disappears from the skyline. It is a story we see repeated all too often.