The beginning of the beginning

Today is Friday May 28th, 2010.

I think each time I say the date out loud I am shocked yet again at how fast time is going by. We are almost half way through this year already and it seems like yesterday we were heading into another season of winter. Winters here in Whitecourt are strenuous on the soul. In the past the winters have been long. Some have even started in October and lasted 6 months. They have also been exceptionally cold hitting record lows of -45 degrees celcius with a wind chill factor causing the air to feel like its -55 degrees celcius. Yowza!!!! I know. But, I can honestly say that this past winter was very bearable and I might even say it was enjoyable. We received a heavy snowfall in October that never melted like it usually does. We got some cold weather in December and January but nothing like the previous years. In March the spring weather began and that was pretty much it for winter. Of course, all spring my gut instinct was warning me that one last big snowfall was inevitable. Sure enough this past weekend (May long weekend) we got a nice 6 inches of the white stuff. We all knew it would happen but for some reason that doesn't help us accept it when it arrives. I'm sure that's the last of it (fingers crossed) and we are ready for that warm summer sun.

We live on 10 acres of land west of Whitecourt just off the Alaskan highway. We have a nice small creek that runs right through the middle of the 10 acres and we are surrounded mainly by Poplar and Birch trees. The grass is green, the wildlife is abundant and the sun rises and sun sets over the rolling hills are fabulous. I had never lived anywhere like this before. I was born and raised in Kimberley, B.C. When I was 17 I moved to Lethbridge, A.B. to go to college. What was supposed to be a 2 year stay while I went to school turned into 6 long years, before I finally broke free of the city. From there I lived in Nicaragua, Central America for 3 months. When I left Nicaragua to come back to Canada I wasn't really sure where my life was headed or what I was going to do with myself. I came to Whitecourt to spend time with my boyfriend Cody and try and get some things figured out. The rest is history as they say since Cody and I have now been married for 11 months, we have a 2 year old son Levi and I have now lived here 3 and a half years. I guess you could say that what I figured out was that I love this acreage, the man that came with it and the idea of living a country life.

This new place I am in my life deserves to be documented and my journal is full. I thought this blog idea is worth a try since I love to talk about what's happening around here each day and I think my poor husband's ears hurt after a long day of work and an even longer evening of my babbling. I will babble here and I hope you will enjoy it. This is the beginning of the beginning. Welcome :)

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"The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings."

Dave Weinbaum