Another amazing weekend in East Pine is over and work looms tomorrow (okay, we had a delay in publishing this post as it started to rain and unfortunately that sometimes interferes with the satellite internet – but better later than never!!).
This past week has been a week of travels for me – over a period of seven days (Sunday to Sunday) I roughly travelled for one complete day by car! With commuting to work each day, a quick trip over to Fort St. John one day, Tumbler Ridge another, Grande Prairie a third and a finally a trip to Valleyview on Sunday. This week I only want to travel to and from work!!!
The trip to Fort St. John was to pick up a small part for the quad and at the same time visiting with our friends there. It was nice to hang out and catch up a bit.
The trip to Tumbler Ridge was a work thing – a team building day. The best part of that trip was the journey to and from Tumbler (and before anyone says anything – and the quick lunch time walk!). I don’t enjoy team building days as they normally involve (this one was no exception) some weird activities that I get embarrassed at. This team building day started with everyone wearing “tiaras” with Happy New Year on them. Being me, I chose not to wear it on my head and only wore it for a short while (a very short while) on my arm. Anyway, I won’t say anymore about the day as I don’t want to bore you all. Having said that, if you are ever in the area – a visit to Tumbler Ridge is a must. I wouldn’t like to live there, but it is a nice place to visit.
Saturday morning Ken was working, so I went for a ride with Kyle to Grande Prairie where he was picking up a few things. I think it was the first time in a long while that I have came back from shopping in Grande Prairie without buying anything – I do have to admit that there were quite a number of temptations, but I resisted.
After getting home on Saturday, we all had a craving for something sweet, but didn’t have anything in the house. Somehow I was persuaded to make saskatoon and peach pie from scratch. Normally I will just use store bought pie crusts, but as we had none in the freezer out came the recipe book and rolling pin and I made enough pastry for two separate pies. I made a saskatoon pie using the berries from our backyard – it really is neat to think that the pie was completely homemade – and peach pie using some peaches we had canned last year. I was a bit worried about the pie crusts as it has been at least two decades (aren’t I old) since I made pastry. However, in the end I preferred the pie crust I made to the store bought ones. Guess I will be making homemade pie crusts from now on!
Sunday we woke up to a rainy day. Ken was originally going to go hunting but the warm cozy bed won over the cold, grey, wet outdoors. After a quick brunch Ken decided it was a waste of a day to stay inside and opted for a road trip to Valleyview to visit his brother – a three and half hour trip each way. It was a nice day for a drive. It was nice to visit for a bit, but the drive home felt long!!! We got home around midnight and headed straight to bed.
Monday morning was another quiet morning. The rain had dried up and all that was left was grey skies so Ken decided to venture out hunting with me as his hunting partner!!! (Unfortunately, his planned hunting partner for this weekend injured his ankle and wasn’t able to make it out). We were out for over six hours quadding and hunting. It was great fun. I preferred the trails with the large moguls (a lot of them are sections of road that have been ditch dug by backhoes, etc. to stop vehicles going up them) as opposed to the trails with large fallen trees that you have to get over. The holes are fun after a while going down into them and then climbing up the other side (both quite steep), the trees you have to go over quite hard and use your balance if you get high centred on them to get them over. I had a great time visiting the many spots Ken likes to go hunting and getting more use to the quad. We saw lots of wildlife tracks and even spotted an elk, but unfortunately Ken did not get anything to put in the freezer this year. We will definitely be going out together again to enjoy the area around us.
So that was our amazing weekend, unfortunately it has come to an end and work is back!!! Thankfully this week will only be a four day week! Looking forward to next weekend.
Enjoy the photos below of some of the sites from the quad trip.
Until the next time……..
