Parkside Inn Lethbridge

... spot & photograph the most mullets during the year that we are away. Simon is in Hamburg, a hot bed of mullet activity, but we reckon our travels should throw up plenty along the way. However, it seems that Kristina is falling rapidly behind her brother as he snaps mullet after mullet! So as I had decided that my hair had reached the length where it needed a grooming, I did what any boyfriend would do, I donated my ...

... us to dive into the most impressive spread of food I have ever seen. My first taste of homemade pumpkin pie, wow!
We drank beers, played cards then headed home to drink more beers!

It was great to see both Adam & Laura again, and to meet more top people like Nick & Allison was brilliant. Oh and Nick and Allison gain extra points for naming their extremely cute kitten Bruce Campbell after the amazing b-movie actor.

... has proceeded quickly and may finish by mid October. Don admits that it may take a bit of an adjustment but he will be ready for a change of pace!

We also got word that we finally have a firm sale for our house and now the scramble begins to work out the logists of the 'move' and departure for a winter in the south again. It looks like we will be back in Almonte for much of the month of November.

By early afternoon today the landscape in the vicinity of the the motor home changed dramatically. After several days of repairs and replacment of parts (Don spent 2-3 days doing nothing but replacing knives on headers), the combines started to roll today. There was a general sigh of relief as this group gets very jittery during down time. Even Don was ready and raring to go by ...

... back into Alberta. Our trip to Lethbridge and excursion into the fields, where they were finishing spring planting and we met Ben, paid off.

In preparation for the possibility of being successful in this quest, we have been getting service on the coach and have removed a couch in order to install a desk to better accommodate our needs. I'll be glad when we can settle into a ...

My aunt and uncle have just moved to Okotoks, about 20km south of Calgary. I was keen to see the new place, so my aunt picked me up after work on Friday and we headed out there. It's a sleepy kind of town, so it was really nice to be somewhere without having to listen to the traffic, techno music and the local drunks stumbling around the street. The house has a nice view out to the hills and we ...

... un peu moins plat que d'habitude, bilingue et super intéressant! On a pu voir mule deer, white tail deer, coyotes, beaucoup d'oiseaux, un porc épic presque! des fourmis éleveuses de pucerons en plein travail, et cactus et autres plantes! Trop dépaysant encore, et vraiment bien! Puis discussion autour d'un bon diner, et prochain rendez-vous à l'aéroport :)

... Not this accident or the frozen peas on Jenn's foot could hinder us from reaching Camrose a few hours later, where we stayed with Zach (Tamina's UNP trip). We went out for dinner and then to a bar, which to our amazement already closed at 12 o'clock. Tamina was so happy to have all her UNP friends around her again and Sandra was glad to have found new friends. Because of a little alcohol and high spirits Jenn had danced around on her foot and it had turned ...

My little supermarket and the road under the snow Aujourd'hui, neige toute la matinée, donc pas de trapping aujourd'hui. Dommage, car l'après-midi, grand soleil sans vent (j'adore ce temps, c'était trop bien!). Du coup, entre 2 articles et un proposal, petit tour dehors pour s'aérer un peu. Je vous verrais demain mes ground squirrels! Et donc, ce que j'ai pu voir de cette petite visite et de toutes les autres, c'est que tout le monde roule avec des grosses voitures style 4*4 ou ...

... bucking terrifyingly close to them. Some limped away; others sauntered off with the satisfied look of a job well done. We were surprised that none were actually carried off - they obviously breed them tough out here! I did feel a little squeamish as I caught sight of said steers being "agitated" in various ways before they shot out of the stalls like bullets released from an uncomfortable barrel. It was strange too, how the ...