Month: July 2007

So it is time to put some work into our house in Winnipeg. As you can see the deck badly needs some attention…so we are building a fence. Honestly we are not going about this backwards it is all part of the big picture.

On Monday Lowell picked up our massive pile of wood. There is no way a person could drive a truck through this fence when it is completed (a little bit of overkill, but typical Lowell style).

We supported our local sawmill contact so Wednesday we spent prepping and treating the posts. Here L is supervising the activities. He is a hard taskmaster, he quickly lets us know if we are taking too long.

Lowell is adding a little bit of style to the posts.

We are finally finished ripping out the old chainlink fence, (the posts were cemented 3 feet into the ground) so now we can begin constructing.

With all the beautiful places in this world we forget how amazing the prairies can be. When I come home to Manitoba I notice the sky, the clouds, the sun. I will admit that some of the love for the landscape is just because it is home, but really the prairies are beautiful in their own right.

So I finished teaching my first section of Critical Thinking and finally had a chance to slow down a bit. To celebrate the occasion, we went for a weekend camping trip. We didn’t really rough it, but we had fun nevertheless; we played some games, sat around a fire, went for walks, and slept. Here are some pictures.