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Michelle Farmer-Brown said:
Leduc is about an hour and a half southeast of me. I love Alberta. I don't think you could pay me enough to move back to Ontario. The humidity is reason enough alone. How did you like NWT?
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Anywhere near Coal Lake? Loved NWT. I was in Norman Wells working as head cook in an oil rig camp. 675 miles northwest of Yellowknife. I cooked for 250 men. 5 women in camp. They treated me like one of the guys, which I loved and they looked out for me. It was a hoot. I also worked in the Beaufort Sea on an ice breaker as a cook. That lasted 2 weeks and I got back on dry land. I went back to Norman Wells. Light 24/7 in the summer and dark 24/7 in the winter. Hated winters. Loved the summers.
 
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wendylj said:
Anywhere near Coal Lake? Loved NWT. I was in Norman Wells working as head cook in an oil rig camp. 675 miles northwest of Yellowknife. I cooked for 250 men. 5 women in camp. They treated me like one of the guys, which I loved and they looked out for me. It was a hoot. I also worked in the Beaufort Sea on an ice breaker as a cook. That lasted 2 weeks and I got back on dry land. I went back to Norman Wells. Light 24/7 in the summer and dark 24/7 in the winter. Hated winters. Loved the summers.
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Sounds like quite an experience. I agree about not liking 24 hrs of darkness.
I live south of Mayerthorpe/Barrhead if that helps. Not far from Wabamun and Lac Ste. Anne.
 
I'm in a little place called Lavigne. It's about half way between North Bay & Sudbury, ON. It's got a population of about 200 people. We are very close to Lake Nipissing. I had a friend working in Whitecourt at the time and we went for the Rocky Horror Picture Show street party. Yep dating myself. That was in the early 80's. I miss the west.
 
wendylj said:
I'm in a little place called Lavigne. It's about half way between North Bay & Sudbury, ON. It's got a population of about 200 people. We are very close to Lake Nipissing. I had a friend working in Whitecourt at the time and we went for the Rocky Horror Picture Show street party. Yep dating myself. That was in the early 80's. I miss the west.
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You're in a gorgeous part of the province. Lakes, rivers, forests and the shield.
 
i can't imagine having fresh wild blue berries in my yard, they are tasty though. (i go camping in the forest every year here in Saskatchewan so where lucky to find a few patches here and there)

but am in the middle of farm country. love the forest though :)
 
itsasmallfarm said:
i can't imagine having fresh wild blue berries in my yard, they are tasty though. (i go camping in the forest every year here in Saskatchewan so where lucky to find a few patches here and there)

but am in the middle of farm country. love the forest though :)
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I supposedly have them on my property but haven't found them yet. Evidently wild blueberries like to grow in areas where there was a fire. There was one here 20 years ago.
Got a gazillion wild raspberries and lots of saskatoons too.
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The shield runs right behind our house. The hydro line is up on the rocks and there are tons of blueberries up there, so when I deplete my backyard, and when they are really thick I go up on the rocks and pick. The first year we lived here, I lost track of time and was up there for 6 hours and had walked so far I almost got lost. I've run into bears and moose up there. The moose are what really scare me. My kids got me an air horn from the dollar store and it scares the bears away really well. Moose, not so much. I've also seen a timber wolf up there. He doesn't seem to bother with me. The moose aren't too bad unless it's rutting season, but they are soooo big. I used to do a lot of camping when my kids were young. I'd like to take my grandkids, but the health is failing so I don't go any more. We have a huge fire pit in our yard and we have lots of bonfires all summer and winter too. We make banok and cook it on the open fire in the winter. :clap
 

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