Home on the Smokey Hollow Ranch

I doubt most of you know that our house in Nanton actually has a name. My dad called our property the Smokey Hollow Ranch because of the small hollow across the creek where people used to have campfires and the smoke would collect down there. Pretty cool little bit of trivia for you. Anyway, that's where I am right now. I came down for the weekend to see the family and attend Kristen's wedding. It was pretty fun last night. There were a whole bunch of friends there I hadn't seen in a long time, many I knew before I ever met Kristen. So I ate, I danced, and I listed to some really funny speeches. Good times.

Today I finished off some home work and did some work around the backyard for mom. Dad is off mountain biking this weekend in Kelowna, Jeff is in Calgary, Terry is at his phys ed camp, and Peter is putting in a lot of hours over at the golf course. That leave mom and I. I collected all the hoses, drained them and piled them up, picked up a bunch of garbage and beer cans from the back patio, played with the dog and cat for a bit. Tipsy (the cat) was trying to tackle the hoses I was dragging across the grass. Pretty funny stuff.

Mom is making some delicious hamburger soup so I'm going to stick around until that's done and then get on the road to Edmonton. I only have one more assignment to do for tomorrow. I wish that the world had cars that would drive themselves, at least on highways. Maybe I should start thinking off good ways to do that: GPS? magnets? cameras? AI? Who knows, but then I could get so much stuff done on my trips home and back. Terry will be coming with me next time I drive down, I'll do some then. Hope everyone is having a great weekend. I'll be back in Edmonton soon.