Tuesday Tidbits and Stuff

 

I am going to start off this post by saying while we were over total budget, it was only by just over a dollar. Most of the spending was on fuel for our holiday. Surprisingly, I was quite a bit under budget for groceries. That probably will not be the case this month as I plan on purchasing some Christmas gifts and doing a stock up for the winter and all the holidays it seems to contain around this house. 

Now on to the promised photos of our trip. I am going to apologize now for the format some of them will be in. Uploading from my phone it seemed that I could not get them saved the way I really wanted them to be. 

We left right on time heading west. It was going to be a return journey as well to the area we lived in for awhile and where our youngest son was born.

The day started off very sunny and there was very little wind. As the day progressed it did get cloudier and the wind picked up making it feel pretty cool.

Just outside of Assiniboia we came across a windmill farm. So interesting as this was something totally new to the two of us. It was not there when we left Shaunavon and traveled this road back to Estevan. You will need to click on the picture to make it bigger.

Definitely going to have to click on these to make them bigger. The first is the lot that we had our mobile home on in Shaunavon. Some of the lots are pretty much junk heaps but there are few that have been kept up not too badly. There was a mule deer in front of that trailer in our old lot. One took off before I could get a picture. 

The next is the hospital where Kris was delivered. Seems much smaller now. 

The last is the school where both Kurt and our daughter spent 3 and 1 year respectively.

Then it was off to the Cypress Hills. 

We did pass the oilfield that Harvey worked in and he told me a story about this "bench".

He was told by his boss of the time that if ever in the winter he saw dark clouds over the bench to get out of the field. It can get very stormy and his boss ignored the clouds causing him to be storm stayed in the shack for a couple of days. Harvey always left the area at the first sign of a storm.

Went through Eastend, the home of a T-Rex. We would have stopped to visit the museum, but of course it was closed. 

Went past a small portion of Grasslands National Park, next time we will visit there. Day trip time as we can always travel up to the Trans Canada and head to Regina for the night. Well, provided we leave early enough. 

Turning north at around Consul, we headed towards our destination, Cypress Hills Provincial Park.

We arrived just after 4 and so could check into our cabin. Hmm, and they said a "rustic cabin". Not quite what I would call them.

 

Perhaps the outside, but man the inside, not in the least rustic.  

There were two bedrooms with queen sized beds. This is just one of them.

A bathroom with an actual tub.

A cozy living room and a fair sized kitchen.

The first night we rested by the firepit and enjoyed the quiet. 

More to come tomorrow.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.