Archive | October, 2008

Writing My Life

By on October 31, 2008 in Journal

Its hard to write these posts when you don’t do anything. The last couple days have been pretty steady, I haven’t been bored but I haven’t been busy. I have been staying at the house I house sit every 2 weeks, trying to enjoy the single life. Thats working alright but a person realizes that conversation or comfrontation are something you need when you have little to do. Other than that I have been cleaning some of my old stuff up around the house.

Hey Blog and Facebook people, I need something to write about. Leave me a comment about what You think I should write about. Do It!

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Okay, Here it is.

By on October 29, 2008 in Travels

Okay here it is. That beautiful fluffy white stuff, that we all have a little spot for in our hearts. Its here now though so we should embrace it, it what we got. Month from now will all be jetting around on our snowmobiles. The road were horrible so I had to throw the 4 wheel drive on and off I went  ……….. I’m stumped what to say about it, I’m lost of words how to describe it so here are some pictures.

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My Drive Home, Part 2, To Yellowknife

By on October 28, 2008 in Journal, Travels

Okay so your wondering what I ment when I said a Frozen Hell. After I crossed over the it started to cloud over and snow started to appear in the ditches. It all went down hill from there, the road became pure ice! After sliding around going at 110km/h I used what wisdom I had and slowed down to 80km/h. As I headed in to Enterprise the conditions got no better so I thought it would be safe to top up with gas and so I could gain back some confidence. For the next 2 hours I slowly gain speed. When I came to the Ferry there was imence construction happening and it was pretty cluttered. Already there was little bits of ice building up on the mightly river. Once across I the road were alot better I was able to travel at much better speeds, UP UNTIL RAE. Why is that road so bumpy, it was horrible. I was all over the place. A couple of times the sled really bounced in the box, but after a good hour of that bumping around I finally made it to Yellowknife. My home of the north…..for now.

Thanks for reading.

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My Drive Home, Part 1, To High Level

By on October 28, 2008 in Journal

I left East Pine Sunday. Sad Day. I left at 5am there time, so 6am Mountain time. I got to Dawson Creek for the last time for awhile, where I wen to MacDonalds for breakfast to go. A Bacon and Egg Bagel got me on my way. I quickly passed the BC/Alberta border and was approching Spirit River when on the left in a field I spotted 4 huge Bull Moose. I have never seem 4 together like that and they were just standing there eating. All I can imagin is the moose from Brother Bear, who happen to be two of my favorite Canadians Bob and Doug MacKenzie “Gots some Back Bacon eh!”. On I carried through Spirit River and in to Rycroft, where I stopped quickly for gas and made one left turn towards Fairview. Before I got there though I went by 11 dear walking through the ditch, just hanging out I guess and then there was the Dunvagin Valley. One of the nicest places on Alberta I think, just a giant crank in the flat prairies. Marvilous. Took my right turn in Fairview not looking back just watching the asphalt in front of me, only stopping for gas. Grimshaw was the gas stop before my mid point of High Level. I thought it was intresting though that gas was 109.9 in Grimshaw and High Level but in between them at Manning it was 119.9 still, didn’t get that one. upon arriving in High Level I went to get lunch first, got my Prime Rib sandwich from Quiznos again and then went to Shell to top up with gas and oil.

To come will be my Intresting journey across the 60th Parellel in to what seemed like a frozen hell at first.

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New to the Blog world

By on October 27, 2008 in Journal

A friend of mine who is one of my few readers if not the only one, started her own Blog.

MacWiebe Chronicles

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Power, Who needs it

By on October 27, 2008 in Journal

Saturday I can remeber a little better. As Ken and Jim were wiring up power to the shed Bev and I decided to make a quick run in to town so I could make a stop at the Bank. As we were coming back to the house we recieved a call from Ken let us know that the power was out for a 3rd time. Upon returing we all headed out to get firewood. We ended up with  truck loads in no time at all. When we returned and unloaded all the wood the power still wasn’t on so proceed to try and pressure-cook the ribs on the bbq. Well that failed, could get it hot enough. So on to the sausages, Oh wait, there it is, the Powers back. By the time the ribs were done the truck was packed full and I didn’t really feel like eating.

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