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A place in Taber

I went out this week to find a place to live in Taber. We're just renting now until we have some time to buy our own home :) Housing is very tight. This was the second last rental left in town for the month. There may be more show up in the next week but most people said it would be very unlikely. We just have the top floor of the house. The bottom picture shows how wide the streets are in Taber - I don't know why but every street it at least four lanes wide through all the residential areas! It definitely makes parking easy.

Pictures of Taber, AB

This is where I'll be working ...


The Rogers Sugar Plant.


Some shots of the downtown.

-33C

One thing I hoped for before we left for Alberta would be to have some good, cold, Manitoba days. I got my wish :) The thermometer below shows -33C ... that's actual temperature, not windchill. (Click on the photo for a larger one to see the detail.)

I went out for a walk this morning so that I could fully enjoy it (really, I love this weather!). Its so invigorating to breathe in air that is that cold.

To Calgary & back in a day

Below are some pictures of my recent trip out to Calgary. I arrived at 9am local time and was on the plane again to come back to Winnipeg by noon local time. Why was I out there? I was flown out for an interview with Growers Supply Ltd of Taber. They mainly deal with potato growers and the job I was interviewing for was to do the agronomy - scouting fields for insects & disease, taking tissue samples for nutrient analysis, taking soil tests, and recommending pesticides for use on their farms.

If you haven't heard already - I got the job! So ... Lisa & I are currently working at telling people around here and starting to think about how real moving to Alberta is. Over the next few weeks we'll try to document the process and in a month or so you'll see lots of postings documenting our new home. Stay tuned.

Looking at Winnipeg from the northwest corner.


Portage la Praire - note how winding the Assiniboine river is.


I believe this is the escarpment that runs through Manitoba (yes, there is an escarpment). It roughly cuts through the southwest corner of the province from Dauphin to a little west of Carman. I was told by a train engineer once that the escarpment and the Qu'Appelle Valley in Saskatchewan are the hardest climbs the trains have to do in the whole of western Canada. Yes - that even includes the mountains. For the most part the railroad skirts around or through the mountains (I've taken the train through them, there are very few tunnels).


Sunrise over the clouds, somewhere in Saskatchewan. Since we were flying west, the sun rise lasted almost the entire length of the flight.


And here it is - Calgary! You can see the sunrise reflection off the mountains in the background. The interview was entirely in the airport, I never even made it outside. I'll be back (and hopefully Lisa with me) in a few weeks to look for a place to live (in Taber) so I'll get to breathe some of that Alberta air then.