Crazy time coming up.....hopefully things settle down.

So this seems to be the most crazy month of the year. most people think December make life hectic but for me it is the month of June.  This weekend is our 4-H beef achievement day and sale.  I am a general leader so my day will be crazy with paperwork and numerous other projects.  I was able to hand off the picture taking this year which will be really nice.

This is a picture of Michelle's steer that she will be showing.  He looks very different now as he has had a hair cut and a has put on some more pounds.  These are the pictures that we took a few months ago to put in the sale flyer. (Well let me rephrase that - I would put a picture up but it will not let me load it.  Says it is rejected)

So on Saturday night we get finished and then I have to jump in my vehicle for a 5 hour drive to Red Deer for 3 days of conferences for the school division.  On this note I am happy to say that our schools in Slave Lake start taking kids again tomorrow.  Hopeful we will see a large number return to finish out the year, I think with all of the craziness in thier lives school would be the one normal thing they could return to.  Even if they don't accomplish much it would help them return to life a usual (almost).

When I get back next week I have two days of work at the office alone and then we have our horse achievement day, the girls will both best testing for levels and then we get to go ona nice trail ride.  I am looking forward to his.

This leaves us with the final week of school before exams which means convincing my kids it is important ot keep going to school even when it seems like summer has started.  This also means it will be our 4-H awards night for this year.  I hate to say it but I am really looking forward to it being over this year.  I actaully can't wait. 

Once this is done we have final exams and then we immediately start the process of moving Michelle to Grande Prairie where she needs to find a job and get ready to start school in September. 

Let it be said:  I HATE JUNE!!!!!  It is the most stressful month of the year. 

So it's Sunday and.....

It is still snowing and cold.  I do believe there should be some kind of a rule about snow and cold.  If it is going to snow in insane quantities it should be warm, about -5c not this -25 garbage.  My animals hate it, I hate it and we are all tired of it.

These are the 2 4-H steers that my girls will be showing in June.  They are looking good but seem to dislike thier calf shelter.  I think they sleep outside because the can see the other weanlings we are feeding in the other pen.  They really love the people attention as well.

This was a 4 wire fence before the snow.

This is the shortest snow pile in the yard beside the hay pen.  I am getting tired of shoveling my steps, the feed troughs and the paths to the feed sheds. On the plus side, shoveling is good for your abs and arms if you want to build some muscle.

This is just a group of my ladies headed from the waterer over to where the tractor has just placed some new round bales, they are sick of the snow to.   

This is Charlotte, she is the leader of the pack and you can tell how unimpressed she is with the snow.

Even the horses don't look terribly impressed.

This is Frank & Kenworth, our very overweight goats.  They are the sweetest, they are on thier wayup to the house for a sunday treat of bread and baking.  What we do for our animals.

This is my horses bragging that they are out of thier pen while we feed, they were prancing around and were pretty proud of themselves until our Jack Russell herded them back into the pen.

I just love how the snow piles up of the fence posts.  It just looks pretty.  This by the way is a 5 plank fence made out of 2x10's with 6" spacing between the planks so do the math.  We have lots of snow.

On the plus side, the snow is sure pretty to look at, this is my driveway which I actually can get out of right now, to much snow. 

That little pile of snow is my picnic table sitting on our cookout deck.  There are also 2 benches that you can not even see.  I can't wait for summer when we can get back to some serious bbq and marshmallow roasting.

I also cancelled a trip today that I was really looking forward to taking.  I was supposed to go to Edmonton (4 hours away) for a conference for the school board.  I got up this morning and drove the 28 km to town and decided that I was not going to risk life and limb for a four hour drive.  They roads were terrible and I am really glad I did not go.  I listened to our local radio station this evening and there have been some terrible accidents (no fatalities, thank God) and the police have even closed some highways because of bad driving conditions.  Obviously my choice was the right one.  The only downside to this is that I was booked to stay at the Fantasyland Hotel in West Edmonton Mall.  http://www.fantasylandhotel.com/home/wemindex.asp     If you ever to get to Edmonton, Alberta you really should check out this hotel and the mall.  It has the best roller coaster.