Flowers!

Look what my wonderful husband brought home today! Now if only the vases weren't still packed...

Some things don't change...

Even in Alberta, +7 is Slurpee weather! First one of the season!



If this is all I have to post about, I need a job... ;)

Another church experience

Well, we decided to try another church today, and we went to the Taber Evangelical Free Church. It was quite different from our experience at New Life last Sunday (was that only a week ago??). They have 2 services, but they've bought an old hardware store that they'll be renovating to make a bigger building. They hope to be in there by Christmas but it will probably take longer.

Anyways, the service was great, though shorter than we're used to, only an hour and 10 minutes. It has a very similar feel to Bethesda, we felt very comfortable there. After the service we chatted with a few people, and the pastor and his wife had us and a couple others over for lunch. We stayed there a few hours, had a really good visit, and learned a lot about the church and about Taber itself. We'll likely be going back there. In the course of discussion I was asking about music at the church and they asked me if I played piano, and I admitted that I played guitar. Then they got that same light in their eyes that Curtis got when he met me 4 years ago. :) I told them I was taking a break from that kind of ministry and that when I was ready I wouldn't be shy about getting involved. They also seem to have a good youth ministry and ladies ministry. We'll keep you posted, but this looks like it could be the one!

Not much else going on, Scott's job is going well so far, he's mostly reading and learning about potatoes. I've been chilling at home, I'm going to start looking for a job soon. I found out today about a career centre that Taber has, so I think I'll head there next week. I'm also looking into becoming an Epicure consultant. They sell spices and dip mixes and kitchen stuff - some of you may recall the wings party I had a while back with them. We'll see how that goes, I think the closest consultant right now is in Medicine Hat.

Anyways, I've rambled long enough, if you're still reading at this point, you must really love us. :) We miss you all, but we're also excited about the life we're starting here. We're also excited that The Amazing Race is starting tonight. :) And that tomorrow is family day and we have the day off (not that it matters much to me). Have a good week everyone!

Lisa & Scott

Settling in

Well, my mom flew home yesterday, Scott's at work, and I got to sleep in today. I guess our new life in Taber is really underway! We'll post updates as things happen, in the meantime, here's a fun picture from when Mom & I went out for lunch yesterday. I noticed the knife at the table was sticking to the other utensils. I asked the waitress, she said they have a magnetic lid on the garbage can so that utensils don't fall in. It was kinda fun. Keep reading!

Lisa

We have furniture!

That's right, our stuff arrived today! We were greeted with this sight around 10am:



I was driving Scott to work, and he finally got ahold of the movers, so we stopped in, Scott got his truck, and we headed home to get things ready.

The beauty of using movers is that for the most part we could just stay out of the way:



And then we watched the neighbour shovelling his driveway...and dumping the snow onto our yard! We thought this was terribly funny, and it was tempting to go shovel the snow back onto his driveway. ;)



Once the movers piled all our stuff inside, we set about getting things organized.



This is what it looked like at the beginning...it seemed pretty hopeless...



And this is where we managed to get it tonight!





*You'll notice the wicker basket in these pictures...that wasn't actually ours, but the movers couldn't figure out who it belonged to, so now it's here! I keep expecting a snake to come out of it...

We still have boxes everywhere, but they're under control (or hidden in closets) for now. We'll work at getting everything unpacked or stored over the next few weeks. This place is temporary (3-6 months, hopefully), so we only wanted to unpack the essentials. Our place isn't huge, and we'll have to eat off tv trays (no room for the kitchen table), but we've managed to make it cozy. We probably won't post as frequently now that we're settling in, but we'll try to update once a week or so. Thanks for reading!!

Lisa & Scott

Who pressed the pause button?

Still no stuff :( ... Originally they told us the latest it could be would be one week from pick-up, so tomorrow is one week. Anyways, we'll see. They've told us the driver will call when he's on the way, so we just keep the phone on.

We went to the New Life Church today. It was an experience. Once it had reached the 2 1/2 hr mark we decided to leave ... It was a guest speaker today ... so we'll go back again one more time when its the normal pastor to get a fuller picture of the church.

We've been doing well on our air mattresses with foam toppers. We have some cooking appliances - a stove top tea kettle, a coat hanger for a toaster, and aluminum foil roasting pans to cook frozen stuff in. The tea kettle and one-cup coffee maker have already paid for themselves in the amount Timmy's we would have bought by now. We are definitely not starving. Its nice to not have to be going to a restaurant all the time.

• Pray that we will get a definite time for our stuff and that it will arrive soon.
  
  
• Pray for my first day of work tomorrow. I talked to my boss tonight and he knows whats going on so its fine. There's nothing much to do around here so I might as well go and get started at work. When the movers come I can just come back.

I think that's all for now. Talk to you all later.
Scott & Lisa.

Still waiting...

Well, it's Saturday at suppertime, and we have yet to hear from our movers. So, as it turns out, the air mattresses were a really good investment! We figure if they haven't shown up by now, we won't see them till at least tomorrow. We headed into Lethbridge today to grab some more groceries, and I picked up some pots, seeds, and soil to try my hand at flowers. :) Anyways, the picture below kind of sums up our situation right now, we dragged our air bed into the living room so we'd have something to sit on besides the floor. Here we are checking our e-mail, and I'm eating my strawberry mini-wheats out of a plastic beer cup. I hope we get some dishes soon...

Lisa & Scott

Coulees & Train Bridge in Lethbridge

In Taber

Hello all,

Only an hour or so drive today to Taber. Luckily we were able to meet the Shaw guy and get our internet hooked up, which is why we are able to post tonight. The stuff is supposed to arrive tomorrow now (hopefully :) ). Anyways, so for today we just did some grocery shopping, got some cleaners, and started doing some cleaning that still needed to be done. We were going to stay in a hotel for the night, but then realized that if we spent the money on air mattresses and sheets at Walmart we could just sleep here for the night (and we'd be all set if the stuff didn't come for a few more days).

See you all later,
Scott & Lisa.

Medicine Hat

Well we made it to Medicine Hat today. It was clear driving until about Swift Current when we hit the snow (mainly just blowing snow). The movers don't arrive till mid afternoon tomorrow (hopefully) so there's no real push to make it to Taber. Fortunately the motel we are at in Medicine Hat has internet! Enjoy some pictures below.

On the road again ...

The Maple Leaf Plant in Brandon.


The Assiniboine Valley just west of Brandon.


Stopping to watch a train (the camera took it amazingly clear, this train was really going about 100km/hr).


In Regina you can see your dog run away for 3 days (we are still 20kms away at this point).


Some potash mines in Saskatchewan.

Just can't wait to get on the road again ...

Just had to get some pictures of the tractors along the highway by Moose Jaw ...

What 40 below looks like

A cold day for a move

The screen shot below says it all. Unfortunately the thermometer was already packed away. I wasn't even able to go out for a walk (because of the movers arriving at 9am). However, I can still say I experienced -40C.


As of writing this post, all of our stuff is somewhere between Winnipeg & Taber, supposed to be arriving on Friday afternoon. Lisa & I are in Steinbach staying at her parents place since Monday night. We're heading off tomorrow to Taber, starting our new life. I think we're just ready to get there and start getting settled. Pray for good weather for the drive, not only for us but for the movers as well (so that they are on time).

I'm not sure when we'll post again, it depends on when we can get internet set up and have time.

Until next time,
Scott & Lisa.

Parking - Scott's Secret Talent

One of the fun things to do on the farm was to park things so close together in the shed that you couldn't see light between them. Or, to park so close it looked like you didn't know you were that close (even though you knew exactly what you were doing). You can take the boy from the farm but you can't take the farm from the boy. As you can see, I was able to park with less than a foot clearance on either end of the car. It took a little maneuvering but I got it. No car was bumped in the process of this parking job.


Not much other news. We're just packing and running around tying up loose ends. Last weekend was our weekend of parties as the church, family, and friends all had good-bye parties that weekend.

Stay tuned for details of the move!
Thanks for the reading,
Scott & Lisa.