- Location
- Back in the Peace Country
I have lived in many parts of Canada over the years. I spent quite sometime in the Rockies, have treked the valley of the 5, been atop pyramid mountain, Whistler's, The tonquin Valley and the ramparts, Shovel pass, Edith Cavell, Fryatt, I've gazed on the Persimmon Range, been up and down the Fraser, the Atabasca, the Smokey, Kakwa, etc etc. I've woken up at camp on Mt Robson, Been all over the Peace Country, and as you all know all over Newfoundland. There was always a very strong desire, hard wired into me, to be around water, granite and evergreens.
Then I moved here to Rural SouthernSaskatchewan.
I signed a 3 year contract with the regina Qu'Appelle health Region, and after about 2 months I wish I had not. It was flat, no trees, no rivers to speak of, a few hills and valleys here an there, but not what I was accustomed to. Certainly no overabundance of evergreens.
After realizing I would have to fulfill my contract or pay back 10's of thousands in sign on bonus, we bought a house in a small town, 25 minutes outside the city.
Slowly, I realized what rural sakatchewan had to offer.
When we had our first little one this April, neighbors showed up, unannounced with knit sweaters, cakes, baked bread, blankets,....
My first thought was, "Are these people from Newfoundland?"
I have a sore hand since I arrived here as every one waves when you drive by. My next door neighbor often calls out to me over the fence, "do you want a few potatoes and a cabbage" and my other neighbor soon chimes in
"how about some raspberry jam?"
If ya need a hand, you'll find many, and if you need many, you'll find more.
My 45/70 doesn't get packed around so much, but it sure is turning out to be a decent compromise.
Today I went for a drive just back of my house and saw 11 deer. 5 bucks, all within 80 yrds. I saw several thousand, and I don't mean hundred, snow geese. I parked my truck and sneaked out into the field. A farmer saw my truck from his tractor and then started scanning to see me. I was in camo, but he did pick me out after a few seconds. He was along ways away and I saw him stop his tractor. and get out and get in his truck. Surely he was on his way to give me a few choice words for hunting on the land. He got in his truck and waved at me a bunch of times, finally I acknowledged him.
He then pinned the truck and did about 120 km/h down the back road adjacent the field. He drove all the geese right over my head, and I shot 3 for three.
He then turned around, drove back to his tractor, waved again, and went back about his business.
I laughed to myself.
Sometimes you need to have your eyes opened to whats around you,
these past few weeks, mine have been gleaming!
Here are some pics from this morning. I limited out, but ran out of battery before i could get picks of the birds, will post some later
The pond in the last pic was completely white before I fired my gun, the snow geese in the pics were all I could get in frame without going panoramic
Oh yeah, I got caught in a barbed wire fence trying drag 27 geese back to the truck !!!
After getting out of that mess, the next fence I came to, I threw all the birds over, slid my gun under, and walked over the fence lifting my leg. I dropped a shell while doing this and bent down to pick it up. JESUS H CHRIST, I HAD NEVER EVER SEEN OR SAW OR EXPERINCED AN ELECTRIC FENCE BEFORE AND WHEN I BENT DOWN MY FACe PRESSED AGAINST THE WIRE. ZAP !!!!!
I was about to grab the gun and shoot something, I didn't know what had happened.
It was very funny when I realized what had happened.
Then I moved here to Rural SouthernSaskatchewan.
I signed a 3 year contract with the regina Qu'Appelle health Region, and after about 2 months I wish I had not. It was flat, no trees, no rivers to speak of, a few hills and valleys here an there, but not what I was accustomed to. Certainly no overabundance of evergreens.
After realizing I would have to fulfill my contract or pay back 10's of thousands in sign on bonus, we bought a house in a small town, 25 minutes outside the city.
Slowly, I realized what rural sakatchewan had to offer.
When we had our first little one this April, neighbors showed up, unannounced with knit sweaters, cakes, baked bread, blankets,....
My first thought was, "Are these people from Newfoundland?"
I have a sore hand since I arrived here as every one waves when you drive by. My next door neighbor often calls out to me over the fence, "do you want a few potatoes and a cabbage" and my other neighbor soon chimes in
"how about some raspberry jam?"
If ya need a hand, you'll find many, and if you need many, you'll find more.
My 45/70 doesn't get packed around so much, but it sure is turning out to be a decent compromise.
Today I went for a drive just back of my house and saw 11 deer. 5 bucks, all within 80 yrds. I saw several thousand, and I don't mean hundred, snow geese. I parked my truck and sneaked out into the field. A farmer saw my truck from his tractor and then started scanning to see me. I was in camo, but he did pick me out after a few seconds. He was along ways away and I saw him stop his tractor. and get out and get in his truck. Surely he was on his way to give me a few choice words for hunting on the land. He got in his truck and waved at me a bunch of times, finally I acknowledged him.
He then pinned the truck and did about 120 km/h down the back road adjacent the field. He drove all the geese right over my head, and I shot 3 for three.
He then turned around, drove back to his tractor, waved again, and went back about his business.
I laughed to myself.
Sometimes you need to have your eyes opened to whats around you,
these past few weeks, mine have been gleaming!
Here are some pics from this morning. I limited out, but ran out of battery before i could get picks of the birds, will post some later
The pond in the last pic was completely white before I fired my gun, the snow geese in the pics were all I could get in frame without going panoramic
Oh yeah, I got caught in a barbed wire fence trying drag 27 geese back to the truck !!!
After getting out of that mess, the next fence I came to, I threw all the birds over, slid my gun under, and walked over the fence lifting my leg. I dropped a shell while doing this and bent down to pick it up. JESUS H CHRIST, I HAD NEVER EVER SEEN OR SAW OR EXPERINCED AN ELECTRIC FENCE BEFORE AND WHEN I BENT DOWN MY FACe PRESSED AGAINST THE WIRE. ZAP !!!!!
I was about to grab the gun and shoot something, I didn't know what had happened.
It was very funny when I realized what had happened.
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