Friday, February 29, 2008

This is Forrest...

These are some pics I took this morning of this guy who comes to our shop to weld stuff... I think he just does it for fun & to be productive I think. Anyways, hes 84 and hes really cute. My Dad is a welder so whenever I see him he reminds me of my Dad :)



Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Its that time of year again...

Ok, so I made Paska for the first time ever in my life last night/today and it turned out GLORIOUSLY! I used the recipe from Lovella's blog (on my sidebar, click on her name and then click on the link on her sidebar that is marked Paska... I HIGHLY recomend this recipe- thanks Lovella!) It turned out very moist and light and delicous. I am very proud to be carring out my favorite Menno tradition so I am going to post some pics to show you all my acomplishments :) I brought some to the work site for the guys to have and they loved it expecially this guy that works for us doing finishing carpentry, his name is Menno and hes an older guy whos like so hardcore Mennonite... my parents knew him in Abbotsford like 20 years ago so its a coinsidence that I am working with him now but anyways, I think he really appreciated it (and it was cool to have an experienced Paska eater tell me that mine was really good!) Jo-Ben likes it too-hmmmmmm Jo-Ben and Amanda Thiessen... has a good ring to it, think he'll change his name? hahah j/k. Anyhow, I am proud to carry on the traditions of my heritage, just wish my Mom and Dad were around to try my Paska (it just might be better than hers) Oh well, maybe next year!






Monday, February 25, 2008

YESSSSSSSS!

Jo-Ben is HOME!!!! whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?! yup its true, hes home. He is only here for a short while (4ish days) and its time meant to heal his busted shoulder but I'll take it!!! Im so HAPPY!!! He totally suprised me and it was so awesome, I was home form work a little early and I was thinking to myself what should I do tonight... do a craft? clean the house? and then I hear a ring of the doorbell and the door open and I was like what the?! and even when I went to the top of the stairs and saw Jo-Ben standing down at the door I thought it was like Garron the painter from work or somthing, I had to do a double take and everything. So he is here for a few days, he can't stay for my birthday which is on Saturday but he will be here till Saturday morning so technically he will be here for my birthday as I was born around 2 am. YAY. Can you tell Im kinda excited?! ha. Also, today on my lunch break I took some pics of the shelves that I put up in the house, my babe was proud :) here they are:

Sunday, February 24, 2008

What a nightmare!

So I woke up this morning *ahem afternoon* and I had to do a double take after I glanced outside... after almost a week of mild weather, clear roads, hardly any evidence of winter (other than the dead, brown grass everywhere) EVERYTHING IS COVERED WITH SNOW AGAIN!!! ahhhhh! I honestly had to run to the computer room and look outside the front window to make sure my mind wasnt playing mean tricks on me... nope! its snowing! Its a very light dusting and its only -2 but how depressing! Just last night I went to the movie store around 8ish and I was only wearing a light sweater and my FLIP FLOPS and I was thinking to myself, "Self, you should get a pedicure & too bad Jo-Ben isnt home because its almost beautiful enough to sit out on our deck" WRONG! Well, I guess thats what I get for living in Alberta... pictures to come. :(

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Perspective

Three Hills prairie sunset

My 25th birthday is in about a week and a half and to me its a pretty big milestone, I'm not sure why but 25 just seems like such a significant number... 1/4 of a century, your 25th wedding anniversary is always a big one so I think your birthdate should be too... Anyways, last night I was thinking about this upcomming milestone and with that looking back on this last year of my life. It hasnt exactly been easy to put it mildly. Some of you know, and some of you dont know some things that I have been through and I can talk about some things and others simply don't need to be addressed... so here goes.

Last year at this time I was living in Medicine Hat, AB... new to this province by about 6 months and going through my first winter with my husband out of town. It was really hard. In a new place where I hardly knew anyone, living in a basement suite (with one small window, mind you)and seeing my husband on average once every 31 days... not fun. In April I packed our car with what little we brought out to Alberta and drove back to the Fraser Valley & lived with my sister in law for about three months. I got to see Jo-ben for about two weeks in April (and spend lots of time with my friends and family "back home" & even got to see my North Carolina fam) so it felt like a brief time of refreshing but at the end of April Jo-Ben went to northern BC to forman a treeplanting crew for the last time. He was up there till June and I joined him for almost a month towards the end but both being apart again and being together & planting (for anyone who has ever treeplanted) was once again, hard. So we spent a few weeks in the Fraser Valley after treeplanting again with friends and family which was nice but it was clouded with stress of looking for a place to live out here in Three Hills, AB when it seemed like there was no housing available and nearly impossible to find what was, preparing to make the big move out to Alberta & gearing up for starting a new life out here again in a place where we knew no basicly no one. We moved out to Three Hills on July 1, Canada's "indipendance day"... coincidance? Although a hard transition, we were blessed with the good news that I was pregnant...we were thrilled. We had been trying for almost a year at that point so this was long awaited, joyous news for both us and our families. This made this time a little easier to bear I guess because we had somthing to look forward too and weren't focusing on the "right now"... but it was still hard. We slowly started to make friends here and in Red Deer and I am so greatfull for Gods perfect timing and for thrusting us into those people's lives (in retrospect I can sort of see his plans) So throughout the end of the summer and the begining of the fall we were getting used to our new jobs (I landed a great one and Jo-Ben was working full time in what he goes away during the winters for) learning how to adjust to our community, building relationships with new friends and still stressing about housing (we were living in a disgusting basement suite that we luckily hooked a couple of days before we drove out to Alberta but we were in the prosess of building a house that we bought in March of last year, a pretty stressfull endever. For anyone who has ever expereinced this and are still married- kudos!) So although spotted with blessings- still hard.

Then in September we expereienced only what I can describe as the hardest thing that I have EVER had to go through... and am still going through. It made the "adjustments" that felt so hard over the 6 months predeeding seem like a walk in the park. Now, I have been through my fair share of hard things- my mom has battled cancer for most of my life and I have seen her on her death bed, my parents have gone through really rocky times and Ive been at the brunt of things and I have watched from the sidelines as my Dad has battled depression and have delt with the reprucutions of all of that so Im not comming from a nieve place where I "dont know what hard really is".

On The first weekend of September at almost 14 weeks along I miscarried our baby. Its one of those things that if it hasnt happened to you you simply cannot really understand what your mind, body and spirit go through but all I can describe it as is hard. It was excrushiatingly hard. Every fiber of my being sufferd. I didnt know how to deal with everything that I was experiencing and I fell into a dark period of depression... looking back on that time it just all felt like such a rollercoaster expecially considering the previous 6 months and how rollercoasterish everything was without the repricutions of the miscarraige. Over the next few months I did have "ups"... we went to Mexico, a broken relationship was completely healed between my parents and my husband & I, we moved into our first home but these extreme highs were always, ALWAYS followed by extreme lows... I felt like I was on a ride and I couldnt get off, I was silently screaming and no one could hear me, I pasted on a smile but was SO broken inside... EVERYTHING irritated me and nothing was easy even getting out of bed in the morning, loving my husband, breathing. I felt like I was in a constant battle like I have never felt before. I ended up getting help after finally having somewhat of a nervous breakdown in the begining of December. I truly feel like the last couple of months have been more constnat rather than rollercoasterish. Healing is a prosess and I feel like I am making progress and every day is a little easier and better than the last.

I'm not telling my story so that anyone feels sorry or pitty for me, I have just seen, heard or read about so many women in pretty much my exact situation, dealing with such greif, and I dont want anyone to feel the lonliness that I felt... maybe my story can help someone somehow. I dont know. And believe me, I KNOW things could be much worse for me but its taken a long time and allot of perpective to get to that point, feeling that way, shifting my thoughts and attitude. Its still a battle and there are still tough times but I feel like I have hopped off of the rollercoaster and maybe now I'm on the bumper cars :) I truly do have the most amazing husband ever and now I see why God brought certin people into my life, put me in the job that he did, put us in the city that he did... everything, I see it. I read a quote recently that I feel perfectly describes ALL of this:
"The evil of pain is the grit which makes possible the growth of the pearl."
wow. I will always remember my baby and always feel sad for what may have been I think but lately I feel like there are less "grity" times and more "pearly" times... I am experiencing highs without bracing myself for the lows now and I like it.
Three Hills prairie sunet at the edge of town

This is my nephew Mateo- I love him.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

A long weekend

I had a VERY relaxing weekend... after work on Saturday I had 12 people over for dinner (I know, I know Im a little nuts) Anyways, it was 4 guys that Jo-Ben coached futsol (indoor soccer) this fall at the bible college here in Three Hills... they are such great guys and they are all roomates, its funny cause they are all so different from one another but mesh so well together. So two of them brought their girlfriends (who I LOVE) and a few friends that were visiting from out of town. I made two huge chicken pot pies topped with puff pastry rather than pie crust, roasted parmesean cauliflower and a garden salad. I was kinda nervous that there wouldnt be enough food because one time just the 4 boys came over for dinner and I made TWO roasts and somehow they majorly shrunk when I cooked them so there was JUST enough food for everyone... was pretty embaressing. Now, whenever I have people over (even when Jo-Ben is not home) he just HAS to ask if I made enough... ughhhhhhh. So the two pot pies were enough, i made them in two big lasangea type dishes and two heads of cauliflower, everyone raved over the cauliflower and it was so simple, just roasted with salt, pepper and oilve oil and then sprinkled with fresh parm and lemon. The meal was very comforting but also fresh tasting because of all of the veggies which I thought was perfect because of the BRILLIANT weather we had this weekend... I joked with a friend that I can finally go outside without it hurting when I breathe! yikes. It was very beautiful and sunny this weekend and above zero so I was a happy girl. After dinner we had some blueberry banana bread and some brownies (those were made from a mix outta a box, shhhhhhh) and some coffee & tea and we played guestures... it was a riot. Later after they left I went over to my friend Kates house and we watched this Disney movie with the Rock called Game Plan, SO CUTE> I am going to watch it again with Jo-Ben when he comes home... its like the perfect mix of romantic-comedy, heartwarming family story mixed with just the right amount of sports. I slept in on Sunday and just hung out in my pjs all day, cleaned the house from the night before, listened to music and meditated and watched some tv/read my book in front of the fire... it was nice, I had Kate and Ryan over for a pot roast later. It was my favorite kind of Sunday expecially with the sun shining through my windows on me as I lay on the couch, I felt like a lazy cat! I topped it all off with a late night hot tub with my friend Irina. Monday was a stat holiday for us Albertans... it was "family day" hahaha love it. I got up and showerd and literally stayed in my robe ALL DAY. ha! Since my fam is either up north, down south or in BC I decided to take a total ME day... I honestly didnt do anything except write a few letters and laze around... I feel so rested & like I can take on this week full force so it was well needed I think. Anyways, thats my weekend... today I am back at work and its been pretty crazy so far, I am designing three houses that we are building and they arent custom homes this time so I get to make all of the desisions without any peskey homeowners changing their minds every 5 seconds... its allot of fun!... just wish I didnt have a budget to work with. :) Below Ive posted a pic I saw on people.com this morning of Heidi Klum and Seal... it made me laugh outloud so I thought I would share it, don't they look like little kids & so in love... I love it.

Also- here is a pic of a dress that I am considering as a contender for a bridesmaids dress for my sisters wedding... she is leaving it up to me to pick them out for us three girlies and she wanted somthing that would look good on all of us, thats brown and thats light and airy and "tea length" & the other two girls are students so as much as I love a dress I found last week that comes in around 350 bucks I dont think the other two woudl appreciate that price range... and my husband would probably kill me... any thoughts or suggestions?

Well, thats it for now! Hope you all have a good day, oh also: Im going to try to post some pics later tonight that I took of my new shelves that I put up ALL bymyself- Im so proud! Off to pay some bills- CAIO!

Saturday, February 16, 2008

JO-BEN TIME!!!

YAY! I just got home last night from spending 4 days away visiting my hubby.
I left on Tuesday morning around 8 am because I was driving a car up to Edmonton to meet my husbands boss's wife where we would drive together the rest of the way and I had a few things to get done in the city before I was to meet up with her at 2. So it was still really cold on Tuesday morning but the roads were clear and not icey. I stopped in Red Deer for a Booster Juice ( I always stop in for a booster Juice or a Starbucks but since I had my morning coffee on the ride in Booster Juice it was... much healthier anyways :)) Well, I guess I got back onto the wrong road because although I was heading north I took the long way all around the city which was quite annoying. I finally got back onto the #2 and was on my way to Edmonton. I headed straight to West Ed (I definitly know my way there!!) I had a hair straightener to exchange there and got that done much quicker than I anticipated (THAT is a good story but Ill tell it another time when I dont have quite so much to say) So, after the hair straightener exchange and a stop at Urban Outfitters (fave!) I headed to Ikea on the south end (also definitly know my way there too :)) I spent quite a bit of money which doesnt feel so great but I bought ALOT of stuff... finally got the shelves that I have wanted for so long and some picture frames so I can finally put up some of our wedding pics hahaha 2 1/2 years later. yikes! After Ikea I made the manditory stop at Wal-Mart to pick up soem necesities for Jo-Ben and then went to the Timmies that Jo-Bens boss's wife and I were to meet. Well, I was right on time but she was about an hour late so I just sat and enjoyed a chili and a bun and waited patiently... when she finally arrived we had to drop the car I drove up there off for some guy who was flying in to work for Rod and Jo-Ben so after getting lost trying to find the place we did that and then after making her manditory stop at Wal-Mart for Rods essentials we were finally headed out of Edmonton at 4pm. ughhhh usually we are almost up where the guys are by that time. oh well. So we started driving and as soon as we were out of the city a blizzard hit. Im not even kidding... I have lived in Alberta for a year an a half now and I have never seen a snow storm like this... It started to get dark and the roads started to get worse , we got lost because we didn't take a turn we were sposed to... it was a disaster. She was driving like 40km/hr on a 110 max road and started crying... it was NOT GOOD. I wasnt really scared and didn't cry or anything... I was mostly just annoyed that Jo-Ben was off of work and I wasnt with him. The guys drove out to meet us about 100 km away from where we stay and Jo-Ben drove the van that we were in and Rods wife hopped in with him in the truck. It was really nice of them, felt much safer with my guy driving. This leads me to the point of my one and only kiss with my husband. Yes, its true, he still has his mustache on his face so after one kiss and a scream by moi, I pledged to not kiss him untill the stache comes off... it was sick. Didn't convince him to shave it off though... its still there. grrrrr.
So the next two days were pretty boring... the internet at the motel was down and there is LITERALY nothing to do up there... like NOTHING. Its pretty pathetic. I did catch up on watching shos like The View, Ellen & Oprah though... think I got my fill for a while. SO good to see my babe though... we spent some quality time together and it was just so good to hang out and watch tv, eat supper together (he brought me steak and lobster one nigth and it was REALLY GOOD... they feed them well up there... no wonder he came home last year 15 lbs heavier!) It was so cute though, he brought it back in like a thermal thing like the pizza delivery guys have so it was all still hot for us to enjoy together and he made sure he had like all the utensils and condiments, even garlic butter for the lobster. so cute. I just can't wait till he comes home though, even though its great to go see him and visit its just not the same as him being home... it almost makes me more sad that he can't come home with me everytime I leave. :( Oh well, we are lamost half way done! YIPPPEEEEEE~!
So I got home last night around 5 and even though I was tried and feeling yucky from travelling all day I had a huge adreniline rush and put up all of my shelves, my new coat rack, some pictures... I even used power tools! I was pretty impressed. I will post pics as soon as I find my camera's battery charger. They look SO good... Jo-Ben is hardley going to recognize his house when he comes home... :) Anyways, today I am at work catching up on some things that I missed while I was away the past few days and tonight I am having 8 people over for dinner (some of the boys that Jo-Ben coached at the bible school here this fall and their girlfriends) I am making some chicken pot pies and brownies and banna/blueberry bread... comfort food :) It should be a good time... those guys are allot of fun. Anyways, I should get back to work but I wanted to post about the last few days. I must say its been weird to spend the last 4 days without internet access... I really missed catching up on everyones going ons on their blogs.
I'm going to post a pic I stole off of my cousin Heather's blog of her son Carter because hes just SO adorable... wish I was there to kiss his cute cheeks Heather!!! also- I had NO idea your house looked like that... good job guys! wow. Hope you don't mind me stealing your pic! Talk to ya'll later!

CARTER! He has definetly stolen my heart too, look at those cheeks!!!

oh! PS- I saw this segment on a talk show with this lady who wrote a book about healthy lifestlye choices and stuff and she said that although olive oil is VERY good for you when you put it on salads and stuff like that apperantly its VERY bad for youw hen you heat it up... it changes the molecular structure and actually makes it carsenogenic and stablizes the fats turning them into trans fats! I had no idea but I researched it online and I am pretty convinced... the lady on the show said that when cooking with high heat like roasting or stir frying its better to use an oil like cocoanut oil so I am going to switch over for sure. Just wanted to put that out there...

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Random posting... A dinner party, my mans "stache", & life stuff.

Last night I had my first dinner party in our new home, I really wish Jo-Ben could have been here but it was still a fun time. My boss Billy and his wife Char and my other boss Ken and his wife Irina came over for a dinner hosted by me! I am good friends with all of them and since Jo-Ben has been away they have made sure that I am being taken care of and I am at one of their hosues a few times a week for dinner so I figured I hsuld repay them and make a nice dinner for all of them for a change. My menu consisted of a roasted harvest vegetable soup to start, greek salad, roasted cauliflower with parmesean, rosemary smashed red creamer potatoes, halved roasted red pepers with grape tomatoes and feta and a whole roasted chicken. It was really, really good if I do say so myself. I can't wait to make that meal for my family when they come to visit... it took alot of prep and it was my frist time roasting a chicken (Ive made a turkey but never a chicken) so it was interesting but it was all actually very easy for how impressive it was. The soup was my fave (and most everybody elses too I think) I am going to post a link to the recipe on MarthaSteart.com. I adapted it a little... I added a few teaspoons of curry powder and a pinch of cinnoman as well as using chicken stock insted of water and it turned out so good. I made lots so I have some in my freezer for when I feel like having a yummy soup for my dinners for one. It was really creamy considering it is basicly jsut veggies and broth.... I can't stop raving about it... It was almost as yummy as the crantinis that were flowing all evening :) Here is the link for the soup:


...........................................yummmmmm....................................................... I served mine in little ramakins like this too but I piped sour cream on the top in a swirley and I baked up parmesean crisps (fresh grated parm baked up on aluminum foil till golden and the broken up into crisps when cooled- so easy but very pretty) It sure was a hit!

In other news, I am posting some pictures of Jo-Ben and his "stache" Ughhhhhh... (wife shudders at the sight of own husband) I am really not a fan of this new leaf that my husband has turned over while up north & I am VERY glad that he thinks that its a joke and isnt seriously deciding that this is a good look for him. Whatever keeps him smiling right? ....
Below: sick picture of what I might see if I were to kiss this man... he REALLLLY thinks this is funny hey?



I have posted a picture of us in Mexico from this past October for good measure... just in case you all forgot how hot my husband CAN be! hahahaha Speaking of Jo-Ben, I am heading up to see him on Tuesday which I am pretty excited for. We get to see each other for Valentines day so that will be nice to wake up with my Valentine... even if it is in Wabasca and not in our home... I am going to throw a belated Valentines for us at some point in May I think, make a romantic meal and all that... I figure its almost a better deal anyways cause then I can go and buy all the Valentines stuff after Valentines day when it all gets majorly marked down... smart huh? I think so. This week went by really fast... I have been learning allot lately, reading allot... books, blogs etc. and have been really encouraged lately.
ALSO- I FINALLY bought a masage table! I have it set up in my computer room... its so awesome... I am going to start doing masage on the weekends... probably two or three massages a weekend just for some extra cash and because I love to do it so much... finally. :) I am a very happy girl... now joben REALLY can't wait to come home. Here are a few pictures, all set up!

Caio for now!~

ps- whats with spell check not working on here anymore?!... worst!

Sunday, February 3, 2008

An impromptu rondevouz with my babe

SO, Wednesday night I got a call from my sweetie and he asks me if it would be possible to take 24 hours off of work and meet him in Edmonton... the next day! "OF COURSE!" I said and with that my spur of the moment trip started. Turns out that Rod (Jo-Ben's boss) and Jo-Ben were able to get the afternoon on Thrusday and the morning on Friday off (they moved around some jobs so they worked on the morning on Thursday and the afternoon on Friday... and late into the night) but the point is they were freeeee for less than 24 hours but hey, we will take anything that we can get. They are working about 4 hours north of edmonton so as soon as they were done their morning job on Thursday they drove down to Edmonton and as soon as my lunch break hit I drove up! Rods wife and kids drove up too but they had to leave for somthing really early on Friday morning so I drove up on my own this time. It was only a two and half hour drive and the weather wasnt too bad compared to the days preceeding. It was actually a nice drive.



I met up with my man at the Holiday Inn near the West Edmonton mall where we stayed at a great rate because my company painted and vinyled the hotel a few months back. It is a gorgeous hotel, brand new. Jo-Ben was already there when I arrived and when he opened the door to our room I was so excited to see him... Jo-Ben however was excited for a different reason...



he was excited to show me his new moustache! eeek! I think I let out a frigtened little shriek when I saw him... or rather "it". Jo-Ben usually has facial hair but it consists of a neatly groomed smallish goatee and "soul patch" and maybe a little bit of stuble... very rugged but also cleaned up looking as far as facial hair. Apperantly out in the oil feild you arent allowed any facial hair that would constrict with an oxygen mask (some H2S rule because they work with poisonous gasses or somthing) so "all the other inspectors" (yeah, right) grow big moustaches. So Jo-Ben and our friend James, who is also working up there with them, have decided to grow these things... all i have to say is SICK. I hate it. Maybe its just cause I'm not used to it, I dunno, and if your husbands have moustaches then take no offence but I don't like mine with one. I mean I like him... I LOVE him... but I don't think I will ever LOVE the moustache. Anyways, Jo-Ben and James think its like the funniest, coolest thing ever. They even have a secret hand shake involving the moustaches. So weird.



Our time together, although MUCH too short, was SO fun. I was saying it was almost more fun spending less then 24 hours with him in a fun place like that than when I got way up north to see him for three days. We did a TON of stuff. I first got there and we got settled into the hotel and called James and his girlfriend Cori-lynn who was up there visiting him too & headed out to meet them at the West Edmonton Mall. The four of us stormed the mall for a few hours (I was just window shopping but it was still fun) We went to the amusment park in the mall and I'm not a big scarey rides kinda girl but the other three were pretty pumped for them so I went along... we started off with the smaller roller coaster which was a little bit scarey but mostly fun. Jo-Ben, James and Cori went on this ride called the space ship that shoots you up in the air... it was pretty intence, I screamed and I wasnt even on the ride. THEN it was time... we went on the BIG roller coaster. (ps- right before we went on James tells me about the time he went on it and the wheels started smoking and they had to walk down from the top... ummmmmmm) It was probably the scariest ride I have ever been on in my life. Apperantly its the biggest indoor coaster in the world... I'm proud that I did it but Im never doing it again. EVER. We were all a little shakey afterwards so we diceided no more rides. We shopped a little more and then headed to Tony Romas where we all chowed down on some fabulous ribs. Then we all headed back to our hotel for a hot tub... BEST hot tub I have ever had at a hotel. It was actually HOT. We haev stayed in alot of hotels that have luke warm hot tubs, so disapointing but this thing was H-O-T. It was really nice. After a very brief swimming lesson from my hubby (I don't know how to swim & I'm not very keen on learning (mostly because I dont want to get my hair wet :)) but Jo-Ben love to try to teach me new things and never lets me give up so its always funny when he gets me near a pool, hes pretty determined) we headed up to our room where the 4 of us just vegged and watched some tv. The next morning Jo-Ben and I went for some breaky at Tim's and I dropped him off at the company head office in Edmonton (where I got to meet the owner and snatch up a snazzy company hoodie) and then Jo-Ben and Rod were headed off back up north. I'm going to go up and see him again on Feb. 12 for 3 days but it was pretty cool to have an impromptu "day" with him in Edmonton. OH so funny- while we were in the mall we ran into a family friend of ours from Abbotsford... Jo-Ben had to explain the moustache. HAHAHA that was priceless. Serves him right.



Here are a few pics of Jo-Ben and James in H&M pretending to be European models... I call them Hanz and Franz.



Here is James lovin the eskimo hat... We were in Marks Work Wearhouse... gotta try on the hats. The funny thing is last week during our cold snap here in Three Hills (it got down to -50 with the windchill... coldest people have said in a looong time) I saw people actually wearing these things- no joke!
Annnnnnd finally me getting personal with some of the statues in the mall... we all posed with them in funny ways and then noticed the big plaque on the floor that said "keep off the statues" oops!
Cori-lynn inspecting the statues pipe... Only in Alberta are there huge random oil feild worker statues in the middle of the mall! How do the welds look on that pipe Cori?!