Thank-you for remaining on hold here, while we got on with our lives. Damned good of you! That's the down side of this gig, life comes at you out of left field and your're left wondering what the hell happened. Our 12 acres has been on hold, nothing done other than decay and overgrow. What worked yesterday won't work today. That's how we move ahead. Our time here has served us well, the kids are getting what they need and the boom in the oil industry has ensured Albertan's live in bubble envied by the rest of the country. The streets are awash with money and/or credit, jobs for everyone, life is good. The down side is bobbing just below the surreal surface and that is what's driving the change in our lives. The cost of living in this fools paradise is skyrocketing to the point that some are bailing out, throwing in the towel and saying "no more". Perhaps that's where we're at. We are sun lovers through and through so this past summer has been dedicated to getting our cabin set up and moving out of the camper. For most people, getting back to nature means destroying it to make it user friendly. Our objective was to preserve and protect all we could with minimal disturbance and using as much re-cycled material as we could. We feel that we did an alright job too but that will be a story for another day. Despite a wet spring and early summer, the water level out there has dropped lower than we have ever seen it, so this is the perfect time to get the ponds cleaned and re-shaped for next springs flood of life. In the meantime Old Man Winter is beating on the door, with darkening skies and cold winds from the north so we need to be grabbing some gears here. If nothing else, come April there will be water in the right place, fences in the right place and us in the right place too.
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