Growers Supply does things in style. The Christmas Party was at Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park on the Alberta side at Elkwater Lake Lodge & Resort. We were treated to a 9 course meal lasting approximately 4 hours and a stay in the hotel for the night. Below are a few pictures to get a feel for the night along with a picture of Lisa & I from a hike in the park the next day.
Our yard is looking very nice now with a few snowfalls. The temperature has stayed around -10C to -20C so it has not melted and kept the sidewalk clear (where people have shoveled) and crunchy (where they have not). Very good walking weather. I love snow & cold so I've had many enjoyable walks out so far this winter.
Tree 63 was in Lethbridge on Saturday so Lisa & I headed to the concert. It was a great concert, pictures didn't come out so well but here's one to show a bit of what it looked like. Amazing sound for only three guys. While at the concert we both decided we were hungry and we'd grab some fast food on the way home. Well, the concert ended a little after nine so we decided to just go out to a restaurant for some appetizers ...
... and we found some. Sirloin bites wrapped in bacon served with garlic butter. Yup, you read it right - butter your bacon, boy! They were good! We also had some wings with them too, just to be really healthy. Earlier we had be contemplating getting the platter but then decided that that was really too much food. The place we were at had many rooms off to the side and for some reason had windows that opened out into the main area. Well, long story short some guys on the other side were trying to figure out how to open the window and banged Lisa on the head. They were very apologetic and Lisa was fine but they really, really, really were sorry. So, when their platter came out, we sampled it.
And a couple non-sequiturs. A sign of the times - there is only one phone booth, the outside two no longer have phones in them, they are cell phone booths.
And finally - another sign of the times. Websites - that's old. Make sure people find you on Facebook! Notice how the website is just small little letters and Facebook takes up 3/4 of the sign. Anyways, that was our Saturday night.
My work camera has a time-lapse feature so I set it up in the window one night to capture the backyard. If you watch the snow on the roof & the grass you'll see it melting. Also of interest is seeing the lights in one of the back houses come on and seeing the garage lights coming on and off quickly (when I left in the morning and came home from work).
It's been a while since a blog posting ... not that there hasn't been anything going on, its just that it usually didn't involve pictures. Here are some pictures from last Sunday on my walk to church (Lisa was driving handi-bus that day). The picture of the church is not ours - its the Anglican one one block south. It was much more picturesque that day.
The snow is almost gone now but it was great to see it this early in the season.
I'm trying to get video in the posts but it doesn't seem to want to work ... I'll try again tomorrow night.
nice house to be beside ...
not our cat ... the neighbours ... but he hangs around the place a lot
always one place with room for improvement - this is behind the backyard - a separate place for a garden, which looks like it has had better days
the garden area to the right ...
Since it been nearly a month since we last posted I'll do a quick update post. I was having problems with blogger getting the pictures uploaded, seemed to take about 4 tries to get them all up. It seems to randomly decide not to upload certain pictures. Anyways ...
On July 27th we went to the Robin Mark worship concert. Lisa had won the backstage passes so here we are with Robin and the gang. From left to right is Mike Leblanc from CKVN; Michelle (the whistle player), Lisa, Scott, Robin, the bass player, the drummer :), and missing from the photo was the keyboardist ... who showed up later.
Lisa was more interested in talking to Michelle about whistling than Robin so that's what she did for the 30 mins or so we were up there with the band. I talked to Robin and the guys for most of the time ... for a while we talked all about potatoes - the Irish love their potatoes. They were especially interested when I told them that the big producers around here are Japanese and Dutch ...
A view of the concert from the front row ...
The very next day we moved into our new house .... exhausting weekend. Anyways, we did it. We've been in the new place for 4 weeks today. Its still a work in progress but we're sure it'll be ready for the house-warming we want to have in September. With my work slowing down now I have more energy to work on the house and get things in order.
And finally we celebrated our first anniversary by going out for lunch at a cafe out in the country. They produce most of the food they serve. We had an amazing view of the flower garden and the strawberry patch while we ate. Unfortunately the camera battery died just before we were going to ask the waitress to take a picture of us!
Another thing that happened was a steam engine through Taber in mid-July. We were not able to get tickets but at least we were able to see it. It ran from Medicine Hat to Lethbridge across the high level bridge (there was an earlier picture of this in February). It is 1.6kms long and 96m high. They claim it is the biggest of its kind in the world. Amazing too because it was built almost 100 years ago. Hopefully the video works for you (press the play button in the bottom left, it'll take a while for it to load depending on your connection).
A couple of weeks ago, the youth at our church hosted a pig chase at the farm of a family from church. They dug a trench and got it good and muddy, and in pairs, we had to get all four legs of each pig off the ground. I had a few battle scars from that - good times! :)
Well, since CHVN has a sister station here in Lethbridge, CKVN, I figured I should continue the trend of calling in to win things! My first win here was a big one. Check it out!
(click on the picture to make it bigger)
Mom and Dad are out this weekend, so we took them touring this afternoon. Here are a few highlights!
Scott and Dad looking up at a wind turbine
Scott showing us the tricks of the trade
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