Not only can I say "Thank God it's Friday!" today, but I can also say "Thank God it's Spring!" as today is the first official day of Spring, 2015.  Not that we had that bad of a winter (in fact, this was the mildest winter I've seen since we moved here!) but it still just seemed to drag on forever.  Of course, Winter isn't known for letting go ( Read more... )

     Woke up feeling slightly nauseous - not enough to be sick, just enough to be "off" - and the day hasn't improved much since.

Got an Email from my Mom, saying that she was about to get on a plane to see my cousin in Vernon.  Apparently my cousin is in the hospital, and although she is "okay" at the moment, the prognosis is bad - very bad ( Read more... )

    NOT....     Since the start of the New Year, I've been fighting a head-cold; Instead of getting better, it's been getting progressively worse.  This morning I was barely able to crawl out of bed long enough to use the washroom, and crawl back in again.  I was supposed to re-open the shop this morning, but my health (or lack thereof) was making ( Read more... )

     Good Lord what a day!

Trixstir and I have been in Calgary for the last few days, getting back into Shaunavon around 7:30pm last night.  While we were in Calgary, I got a call from U-Haul Traffic saying that they needed to come and take all of my trucks because they were desperately needed in Regina.  I reminded them that I was closed ( Read more... )

     Back on November 26, I went to the hospital in Swift Current to get an ultrasound scan done on my abdomen. The results came back in the first week or so of December, but I've been so blasted busy I neglected to make mention of it. The results are somewhat inconclusive - there are definite fatty deposits on the liver and pancreas, the gall- ( Read more... )

First, wishing a Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends in the USA. Here's hoping that none of you are being forced to work today, particularly in retail. It's bad enough that there are these insane "Black Friday" sales, even worse that now some retailers are actually opening today and spoiling what one could argue is the biggest holiday in ( Read more... )

     I keep promising myself that I'm going to start updating this thing on a regular basis again, and it seems that I keep failing to do so.  I started this blog when we first moved out to the farm; Everything was so new and interesting that I had to record it all to be able to remember it later, and to be able to look back at how far we've come ( Read more... )

So much has been happening lately, and there has simply been a lack of time to sit down and document it. Most of it is trivial day-to-day stuff, though now and again something bigger comes up. As I was mentioning last entry, The Kidling and I completed the hunter safety course, and now I'm just waiting for the results. This course is a ( Read more... )

Good Lord how time flies! You get busy dealing with RL, keep telling yourself "I need to make a note of this in my journal" and then the next thing you know the days have shot by and it's nearly two weeks later. I have to admit that I'm posting more stuff (mostly quick notes) on my Facebook account, largely due to the fact that it's just ( Read more... )

     It's cooling off quite a bit tonight, and there's a call for up to 4cm of snow by morning.  It won't last long though, with temperatures going back up into the mid-to-high double-digits by the weekend.  Still, it's a little taste of what's to come.

I got an irate phone-call from some schmuck this morning while I was trying to get the water ( Read more... )