Back to the grind

Thanksgiving week is now over and it's back to work Monday morning. Somehow, even with 4 1/2 days off, they still seem to fly by. The days were almost a blur of activity, plus it didn't help that I've had a head cold all weekend either.

Thursday was spent getting ready and heading to Billings for the evening with Jason's family. It turned out to be only his family and grandparents. His other relatives can't make it due to distance. Friday morning we got up and hit the sales at 8am. Billings was quite congested with people. I hit Michaels and bought some Christmas decorations and a door wreath. Jason bought an ear piece for his phone so he can drive with both hands now and do business. He's a gadget geek. We hit a couple of other stores for some business supplies and we left to get back to Cody to take advantage of a Carhartt sale. Again, Jason needed a new work coat and pullover. We then met with some friends at their house in Meeteetse for the evening. Sorry I didn't stay Faith.
Jason went hunting with another friend Saturday in Shell Wy. He was going for birds. He fell through the ice a couple of times and got wet along with his gun. He didn't get anything but had a few laughs at the older guys trying to hunt. Sunday was the usual day of church and vegging at home.

So now it's Monday morning and I'm hoping I can stay awake. It's only 21 school days till Christmas. Wow!

Winter is here!

For how long we don't know but we got our first substantial amount of snow last night. Driving 25 miles this morning was a little nerve racking not knowing how the roads were going to be but I did survive. My many years of Manitoba driving has been an asset. I could have skated to Cody at about the half way point on. Luckily no accidents that I saw. People need that first good snow fall to remember how to drive and not to be in a hurry. I pulled up the same time as a guy I work with and we were saying how driving on a sheet of ice should be an olympic sport with our top speeds at 40 m/h.

Well, this is the US thanksgiving week, so as a result I get 4 1/2 days off. School's out tomorrow at 11:45 am and we don't come back till Monday. A break is much needed by all. We'll be going to Billings on Thursday to be with Jason's family. Friday is the dreaded Black Friday shopping day where some stores open at 4am for shoppers to get some serious sales if you don't mind the rush or potential bodily harm and parking nightmare. We don't have this in Canada. I wanted to go to Lowe's or Home Depot and get some ideas and prices for a bathroom redo. Nothing too major but it will cost some money. We sold some furniture to get some extra cash for the remodel. I'm still waiting for my laundry room to get textured and painted so we can bring our freezer over from our friend's house.

Deer, Deer, and More Deer

We got our new furniture delivered and we love it. The table is the new bar style. It's something to get used to but it's kind of fun too.


Well it is that time of year again. The deer hunters are out and my deer hunter got a buck 2 weekends ago. He went with a bunch of guy friends for the weekend. They put in a lot of miles on horse back and some on foot. He met up with another friend, Jon, who Jason helped get him his first buck. He was so excited.



This was Jason' deer this year. On the right side of the deer(your left) one of the tips of the tines kind of blew up and had about 4 or 5 points, so that made it a non-typical.


Yesterday, we both went out with our friends Bob and Kim Moulten. We were going to just drive around and see what deer were out. Well, we came on this huge deer and Kim got out and shot it in one shot. Not to be outdone, her husband also found a huge deer.

We drove around all day after they both got their deer, looking for a big one for me. We didn't see very many others so we went home. I came home skunked. So this morning after some coaxing from Jason, we got up and left at 5:30am, drove an hour away started the hunt. We passed up one buck and thought maybe there was a bigger one. We came upon another buck which was smaller, but I was so frustrated already and didn't want to spend our sunday hunting, so I shot it. A very little 2 point. I'm improving on the rack size. Last year I only got a single point spike. So there is some more meat for the freezer. We got home, cleaned it, cleaned ourselves and even made it on time for church. Not bad for a busy weekend.

Here's the view from one of the top mountain roads we went on. Lots of snow and drifts in the hill but not in town, yet.

Feeling Creative

Sometimes I look at different photographers and photos and it will motivate me to take some of those kinds of pictures. I was thinking about my horse and saw some pics like these and decided I should try them.

Finally Pictures

Our Humble Aboad































Hard wood floors in most of house. There are some updates of course that we'd eventually like to do. The bathroom is the first room. Wall paper is also going to be coming down in most if not all the rooms, or we'll texture on top of it and paint.

Nothing New

I guess it's been a while since I've blogged. A week I guess. I enjoy reading everyone else's so much that I check them everyday to see if they've got something new but mine stays the same. Oh well. We don't have internet at home right now, so I have to check them at school. I need to take my comp. home so I can put on my camera program to add some pics because it's really boring if you don't post any pics.

We've been in our cute home now for almost a month! And I've already locked myself out twice! Needless to say I've found a way in, so if I can, so can everyone else. Of course the first time was in the morning on the way out to the car to work. I forgot my keys inside and all of the 5 exterior doors we have were locked. So i had to jimmy the screen and push up the window I knew was unlocked and shimmy in and hang my big butt out the front window on the street. Thankfully it was at 7am and no one was really around. I shimmied in and gracefully did a front roll off the ledge. I would later have to do this again after i was fooling with the keys to the dead bolt and it didn't unlock. Once again I found myself doing my "gymnast" thing and getting in my house. Yes, I will put a key outside once I take the time to figure out where all the keys we got go.

Hunting season is in full swing and Jason has gone elk hunting 3 times now and saw one but it was too far away and getting late. He did shoot at a big mule deer and hit it in the front feet. His friend Rick that he was with shot it and killed it, so Jason gave the deer to him since he killed it. It wouldn't have been a rack and story he would have been proud to share anyone. "You shot that deer?" "Well, I didn't shoot it but it's a big deer." No, that doesn't work. So he's going again this weekend with someone else and hopefully they'll see more bulls or bucks.
I kind of like it when he goes because then I can have the house to myself and do what I want to do or just veg. Vegging is good. Must get the scrapbooks out and work on those. I'm soooooo far behind, I'll never get caught up.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Okay, so the title is a little late to all the Canadians but I was able to celebrate the Canadian holiday this weekend with my parents. They missed it with my grandparents but I decided since they were missing it and it was Thanksgiving, that we would have our own. It was nice to do it with family and we had a good time together. Not to mention the awesome food we made along with our 14 lb turkey which Jason and I are still eating leftovers (really we don't mind, it's way too good to pass up). Mom and Dad wanted to see our new home which I think they liked. Even the small bed they slept on together wasn't too bad or so they say.

We took them to Billings on Saturday for some shopping. The Canadian dollar is worth more than the American so they got their money's worth. They had even gone to Grand Forks the weekend before for some shopping. Jason and I were the lucky recipients of this shopping trip though. We had made the comment how we wanted to get a new dining set because our chairs are really loose and wobbly. They said they wanted to buy us a new set. Off to Billings we went. We've both kind of been liking the newest style of the counter height tables and chairs, so that's kind of what we were looking at. We found a set at Ashley's that was nice and for a good price. And right next to it was the leather couch and loveseat we've been dreaming about and wanting to buy. We pointed it out to mom and dad and we asked the price. It was on sale along with the loveseat and a new area rug. They couldn't pass up the deal and decided to also buy it for us. It was like Christmas! So we'll get it all in November. We also got some birthday and easter money from my grandparents. So to add to our new house and new furniture, (Faith you'll be happy to note you don't have to eat on my blue dishes anymore) I bought the white square corelle dishes. They're huge. I didn't think about the size or the square shape until I put it in the microwave and the table almost didn't turn, but it works.

We met up with Jason's family and all went for dinner. Sunday we slept in and leisurely got the turkey and dinner ready. Went to Cody for a drive and Walmart and played the new DVD Clue game. I think we all had a good weekend. I even had Monday off due to Columbus day, so I took off to Billings to exchange a robe and got my new dishes. It was nice to go by myself because I could where I wanted to go and dawdle if I wanted to and not have someone asking me to hurry up.