Trip to calgary

Aidan on top of the Calgary Tower standing on the plexi-glass
Aidan and his cousin Kaeden playing at the park

Aidan blowing out his candle for the birthday that my parents put on for him

Aidan with his new favorite hoodie and eating his new favorite mash potatoes made by my mother.

happy thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.

This weekend we decided to install the new flooring in the living room

This was not Sams idea of fun in any way
Here is the after picture and some rest for all

Tracey laying out the floor and Sam learning how to walk on the floor to get treats. Sam was very afraid of the new flooring so we had to bait him on to the floor.

The before picture

Colin starting out the flooring

up a tree

What I see at work

Snow in the fields on the first day of October
more snow in the ditch

Sandhill cranes in the field

Now here is a story from Colin's past:

until the age of twenty I was a city boy, born and raised. In 1996 I spent my first summer doing forestry work. I had spent the 8 months prior taking forestry at NAIT in Edmonton. Thinking that I knew what I was doing out in the woods, I took a job in High Level. Let me tell you I had no idea what I was doing.

So after about a month of doing "real" forestry work I was doing pretty good ( in my own mind).

I was doing some surveys of a replanted cutblock ( Yes, Dee I was counting trees). Here I am minding my own business when all of a sudden here comes this massive bird flying over my head. It looked like it had a 10 ft wing span and was gray just like a flying dinosaur. So coming from Edmonton I had no idea what that creature was and it scared the #@% out of me. Later after telling the guys back at camp that I had seen a dinosaur bird and what kind of place had they sent me, the guys told me I had seen a Sandhill Crane. They only have a 6-7 ft wing span and they are a gray color and spend their summers in the northern Alberta area.