Pictures from Work

The truck and I in front of the Rouleau, SK water tower, home of CTV's "Corner Gas"

The "Corner Gas" set, all boarded up for the winter.

An enclosed drill rig at a potash mine by Moosejaw

The control panel of our Nitrogen pumper.

Yours truly with dorky safety glasses running the pump.

Our bunkhouse at Antler, Sask., 4 kms from the Manitoba border.

Looking out the front widow of our truck on location.

The coil tubing unit with command center right behind it.

BJ's own drill rig, for directional drilling with coil tubing. You can see test vessels to the left of it.

Huge rail bridge by Mayerthorpe, AB. This photo is only about a quarter of the size of the actual bridge.

Our Ford 550, I just washed it after driving it nearly 900kms from Dawson Creek, BC.

A skunk by Nordegg, he got mad at me when I tried to get a closeup, so I backed off. :)

Huge coil tubing operation by Dawson Creek, BC.

CO2 "Queens" sitting on location.

Giant Beaver at Beaverlodge AB.

Lots to say but no time to say it. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words so I'll let the photos do the talking. I did cover from BC all the way to Manitoba on my last shift, a lot of driving and seeing new country side. I worked a lot and did some jobs I've never done before as well, including drilling in Saskatchewan and foamed cement well liners by Moosejaw, pretty cool. I'm tossing around the idea of taking my bike to Alberta this time. Until next time, ride safe and have fun.

Giant snowman, funny teeth.........................................

While I was home we drove past this huge snowman on 14th St in Saskatoon, the house had little snow in the yard compared to their neighbors. :)

Tina got me a lollypop for Valentine's Day with big teeth on the end, so I posed for some photos.

Ice built up in the wheel wells of my van.

A snow covered highway north of Saskatoon

Tina trying to take a photo of me scrapping ice out of the wheel wells.

It's been a while since I last did a post. A few things have happened since then. Tina's dad wanted me to take a tour of the diamond mine he is working at right now, so I went there on the first Thursday of my days off. It was pretty cool and the landscape a few hundred kilometers north of Saskatoon changes dramatically, suddenly we were driving around in the woods. I really didn't do too much this time when I was home, I was hoping for some warmer weather so that I could do some work on my van, it needs new brake rotors on the front and probably pads too, I can't afford to get someone to fix them so I guess it will be a parking lot job at our apartment. I need to change the spark plugs too but that is a major job that involves dropping the motor down to reach the back ones. Out in Red Deer we are getting close to spring breakup and slack times for a few months, next time I go out I am going to bring my bike so I can do some cycling in the spare time. It was 12-15 degrees out today I wore my t-shirt all day, spring is coming fast. I'm liking my job a little better now, but I still really miss not seeing Tina for such a long time. I would love to be around her more, especially as we get closer to the big day. I just got my own truck today, not mine to keep, but I will be going on my own now on jobs, no more co-driver to help me out. I'm a little scared, but also I welcome it as a chance to learn new things. I hope that anyone that still reads this is doing well, hope you enjoy the photos. I wish they were better but the prairies looks pretty ugly in the spring :) I can't help it. Ride safe and have fun everyone, come back again soon for more...