The Good

Lots and Lots and Lots of and exciting things have been happening. I have twice been off hunting chickens (Grouse) and on both occasions I have been successful. At first you do or at least I did feel sad about killing a living creature, but if you eat meat then you have to accept where it comes from, and I can certainly say that these fellas had a much better life than any battery hen, or even farmed free range chicks out there. It would also seem that these chickens almost want to be shot, coming out on to the road and just sitting there if you miss, even if they do fly off into the bush, you only have to walk a few metres before you see them sitting there waiting on a branch. Once shot we usually thank the creator and clean them up in the trees discarding what we don’t eat for the scavengers. Last week we took a road trip with some friends to Fort St John some 600km away. It was a really good weekend, we shopped, went bowling (some crazy 5 pin bowling) and went out for Steak oh and Dairy Queen as well. We have also had Halloween which was pretty crazy I think we had nearly 50 kids come to our door, compared to England where nothing really happens anymore it was a lot of fun. Catherine has started knitting and beading and I have started to work 1 day a week at the Preschool. We have also rung the changes to the breakfast programme so that it actually happens before school rather than me having to interrupt the lessons to deliver muffins and oatmeal.

We have loads to look forward to in the coming weeks, especially our winter holiday where we are hoping to go to Edmonton for a few days before greyhounding it over to Langham for a family Christmas.

As for the weather we are yet to have a really big snowfall although the ground has been white since the end of October. The temperature is fluctuating wildly it is usually around -2 to -6 degrees C during the day but Thursday was -13 today (Saturday) was only -2 and by Wednesday it could be -25 or colder. One thing we did notice today was that the Liard river is now nearly completely iced over, on Thursday it was water and floating Ice but today there was barely any water to be seen and only the strange creaking sounds belied the moving water beneath.

Eveything else is going to plan, we have a busy week this week as it is national addictions week. We had a Sober walk yesterday and another today, and have activities on healthy eating and fitness. We still have no TV but have borrowed the Box set of Lost, HMMM Not convinced by it so far.