Our new house!

Well, it should be as long as all the paperwork goes through and yada, yada, yada ... the offer is signed but we are just working out the little details before it is finalized.

The house is a split level so it looks bigger inside even though its only 800 sq. ft. (but since two levels are below ground it is more like 1600 sq. ft.). It is 3 bedroom and 1 1/2 bathrooms. What I love the most about it is yard. It is hard to see it but it actually goes back another 15' or so beyond the fence - for some reason the far back is fenced off separately (garden, maybe?) . Anyways, the lot is pie shaped so it is 36' at the front and 63' at the back but the incredible thing is that it is 172' deep! Most times you are lucky to get 120' or maybe even 150'.

Wind Mills (the old fashioned kind)

Last weekend Lisa & I went out for a drive around Southern Alberta and ended up at the Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park that borders Saskatchewan. Unfortunately, it was rainy and cloudy and so the scenic outlook was up in the clouds. Hopefully we'll be able to get pictures next time. Below are some pictures from the journey. The windmill museum in Etzikom was a fun little detour to the trip. Also, we stopped to get a picture of an old barn for Grandpa!

Wind Turbines

There's lots of wind out here and there's big business trying to harness it for power. The pictures tell the story best. You'll notice in the second picture a black dot at the bottom - that is Lisa! You'll see a closer up one of her in the next picture to show just how massive these things are. Enjoy.

These are a couple of pictures I took at a different site where they are building them. In the second picture compare the size of the truck to the pieces - this is a large heavy duty truck and it is dwarfed by the pieces of the tower.

Sushi, Monster Trucks, & Motocross

At about 4:30pm Friday all of a sudden Peter, the General Manager of Growers Supply, realized he still had tickets left to give away to the the Monster Madness show in Lethbridge that night. Growers has a box in the arena for entertaining clients. No one else at work was interested so I asked Lisa what she thought about going - to which she replied "Can we go for Sushi?". So ... she got sushi, I got Monster Trucks. I love sushi as long as its not raw (she loves sushi when it is raw). I got to relive some childhood memories. Lisa got to see something totally new.

What was new for the both of us was the Motocross. The pictures below are fuzzy but you can make out the tricks they were doing in the air - crazy!!! After seeing a few of them do this and being amazed at what they were doing, Lisa decided that although it was amazing and cool, our kids would never become Motocross racers. :)