It may not seem appropriate for someone who has just lost their job to be going to an auction sale, but that's what I did on Sunday.  This was a smaller sale, and they had advertised something that I'd been looking for for quite some time: A small utility trailer.  Now, I already have several trailers, but what I'm specifically looking for is ( Read more... )

     Well, the weather didn't improve much...  The sun broke through a little after noon, but there was still a lot of fine snow blowing around in the wind, and there were blizzard warnings in both our area and around Medicine Hat.  The weather forecast for Calgary calls for temperatures in the -20's for the next couple days as well, which pretty ( Read more... )

     Today was a nice warm (relatively) day in Calgary.  A balmy +6c, which meant that it was an ideal day for working outside and getting the all-important task of shovelling the snow out of the driveway done.  This is necessary because I had to get the truck and trailer turned around so that I could load it properly.  The problem is that my ideal ( Read more... )