Building with a Mountain View

This summer I built a home with beautiful mountain views. From the site you can see the Babine, Telkwa, and Hazelton Mountain ranges and looming over the house is Hudson Bay Mountain.
On a daily basis it was hard to decide which view to take in while having my coffee or lunch.

Sunny Denmark

In May we went on a family vacation to sunny Denmark. This photo was taken near Dronninglund and is a field of rape seed. In Canada we call it canola because somebody thought that traditional names should be replaced so we could all rest easy knowing that our language is inoffensive.

It was the warmest May since the 1950's and kicked ass on the pathetic, rainy, frost in every month summer we enjoyed in northern B.C.

Spring on the Farm

This spring we have had three more calves of which one is a heifer and two are bull calves. For the heifer it is shots and a tatoo. For the bull calves it is shots and the testicle rodeo. An elastic the size of a cherrio is placed on their scrotum which restricts the flow of blood to the testicles resulting in castration. Ouch!

Pond Hockey

Playing Pond Hockey is something truly "Canadian". I thought this would be a good addition to my blog to mark the end of winter and he beginning of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

I am happy to see the end of winter and I made sure to pick up the pucks and the net as they will not float over the summer.

First Day of Forging

On December 23, 2007 I lit a forge for the first time. The forge and anvil came to me from my grandfather, Charlie Chaplin, who was a farrier and a renaissance man in his own right. I took an old spike found on the farm and turned it into a wall hook. It took a long time to make and I burned a lot of coal. I am sure this activity will contribute to global warming but at least I will have a good hook to hang up my hill-billy outfits.

Fall on the Farm

Fall on the farm usually results in death for some of the tenants. That is me giving a turkey a bath prior to its date with the turkey plucker .

The optimum temperature we found for water was 140 degrees fahrenheit. Getting the temperature correct for their bath causes the feathers to fall out easily. Getting it wrong results in some tough plucking.
Mmmm..., hot turkey feather soup anyone?

Avalanche At Galore

During the first week of May 2007 I experienced seeing several avalanches including this one. Presently I am working on the Nova Gold Galore Creek project which is proving to be interesting and educational.

All Saints Day Pumpkin Catapult

In 2003 a friend thought it would be fun to launch our day old jack-o-lanterns across our field with home built catapults, trebuchets, and slingshots. A few people even elected to just throw their pumpkins by hand. My mother thought the event was silly and a waste of time. In the end she had at least as much fun as everyone else and realized that sometimes you need to do things for just kicks.

"Nanook"

Four and one half year old pure bread Dexter bull.

Father of : Rambler, Rasputin, Salsa, Shania, Sunshine, Sylvester, Truly Scrumptious, Tahlula, Thomas, and Tinker Bell.

This is the first time I have created anything on a blog. Be patient I am just a simple cow raising carpenter with some crazy thoughts and ideas. I wonder how far one could travel in a compact car fitted with edam rounds as wheels.