Be still my beating heart

Looks at little dark but who cares it's Russell Crowe. I would have picked different Maid Marian.

What else are you doing you ask

I know you are all tired of my snow moving escapades. I thought I would share what I am doing with the rest of my time. I am reliving my youth.

I bought super Mario brothers for Wii. I have played every moment of down time since the cold snap hit almost two weeks ago. My thumb has gone numb. I have a sore on one finger from the controller. Sometimes family and dogs have gone hungry because I am sitting in the dark playing Wii. Why the dark? Because I started playing when the sun was up and can't be bothered to pause the game to turn on the lights.

As requested

Many of you asked to see a picture of the skid steer. Some other questions you had, yes it has heat. The heater is really good I am always turning it down. It also has air conditioning. Although thing would have gone terribly wrong if I was moving snow with the air conditioning on. The other thing that goes along with the Skid steer is my ipod. I usually move snow until my ipod battery is dead, I am out of gas, or I am hungry.

My new addiction

Kyle has certainly created a monster with my birthday present. The OCD in me really comes out when I am moving snow. Things have to be just in the right spot. I am getting really good at driving the Skid Steer. We have giant piles of snow everywhere.

Moving snow comes with some casualties as well.

Whoops!! Did you know there are no rear view mirrors on a skid steer.

All the animals are happy to be dug out just in time for round two. We here there is snow and wind coming again this weekend.

I am not without my talents. I found out I am gifted at snow sculpture.

I still have one big task to finish. The arena.

However my Skid Steer is DOA this afternoon with a flat tire.

Half time show for the snow storm

I never listen to the weather mostly because in Alberta the weather forecast changes every ten minutes. Well not this time we were told to batten down the hatches. Kyle put up extra straw bales for wind breaks and I brought my sheep home from Jerry's. One thing Kyle neglected to do was put the bucket on my skid steer. Hard to move snow when you have no bucket. Even harder to get out of the shop when the door is covered with a ten foot drift. When you have no trees to stop the wind all the snow collect behind whatever is in it's way. Luckily I had plugged one of the tractors in last night. After the Skid steer was freed from the clutches of the shop I spent the rest of the morning rescuing our cattle from being trapped behind drifts.As a side note all of these pictures were taken with my blackberry. My camera seems to have died. Yeah for me. New camera for Christmas.


There is about 20 sheep in here somewhere.

This year I put up snow fence on the north side of my outdoor arena in an effort to stop the snow from filling it up. Well for those of you that know what a fail is this is a snow fence fail.

The arena is 100 x 200 and the fence is 4.5 feet tall. All of it half full of snow. My round pen didn't fair much better.

Looks like I am going to be digging out for a couple of days before I do anymore working of dogs.

It's Here

Yes, boys and girls winter is upon us.
Tis the season for three layers of clothing and bringing in the dogs in at night. Also the season for donuts in parking lots. That's right you guessed it my baby boy had his first run in (that I know of) with the police. Saturday night I received a call from the local police saying if this was what my son was up to he didn't want any of it in his town. $402 stunting ticket later. Luckily he has been saving up to buy stuff for his truck so he has some cash lying around. He was out looking for job after school today.
Not sure where time has gone. All his shenanigans is making me feel really old. In fact I think I saw some grey hair tonight. Which reminds me to pick up my two cases of wine.
Not much else going on around here. Snow on the ground and probably here to stay.

Home Sweet Home

We got home last night just in the nick of time. Woke up this morning to a blizzard.
Lost my phone charger somewhere in Regina. Left my camera in Judy's jeep. Just wanted to let you all know Dennis Edward from Sundance, Wyoming won the finals. Dennis is too funny very enthusiastic out of course. As I said earlier his mission impossible moves are amazing.
tomorrow I am being invaded by 4-H kids to learn all about herding dogs.
Should be a fun day snow and all.