A Slow Time

Just a quick note for you all. As some of you already know, I was laid off from my job last Wednesday. Came as quite a shock as I just took a 22% salary cut 1 1/2 months ago to avoid this, but apparently it was not enough. The Canadian oil patch is very slow and in bad shape right now, and my company is not in a good position right now. The layoff is supposed to be a temporary layoff for a max. of 59 days. I am still considered an employee of the company, receiving full benefits during the next 2 months, and can be called back any time. So in the meantime I am staying busy making a bit of money building houses with the guys who built our house. Lots of fun working with these guys again, just wish it was under different circumstances. So for the next while I will not be posting pics on our blog as I do not have high speed internet at home. And please do not email us anything but text in any emails as they will take forever to download. Take care, all and dont forget about us up here just because I dont post any nice pics of tractors, quads and pets. Love Chris and Tanya

May Update

Our new family member- 30 HP model 790 John Deere with front end loader, tiller and rear scraper. We finally found the one we wanted for a reasonable price after looking for 7 years. And yes, its a real tractor, no spark plugs in this baby. Just pure diesel power. Funny how 2 tractors ended up in our families blogs on the same week. They are much nicer to look at than motorcycles, eh?

Baby foxes near our acreage. 4 pups in total.

A few winter pics from around our place.