August long weekend

We certainly had a fantastic August Long Weekend!

FRIDAY

Kevin invited a bunch of us to his family farm near Crossfield.  His parents were kind to let us bring out our trailers and tents and have a Bonn fire.

It's a beautiful parcel of land.  So nice to get out of the city and neat to see where Kevin grew up.  You can sure see how being a 'country boy' is SO different than a City kid.

Kevin is constantly improving himself to be wise and more green/efficient.  One thing he has learned about is a 'Composting potty'!  Instead of all us drunkards coming and going in his parents house, out back in a shed he set up his composting potty.  He has built a nice Toilet with seat and you do your business into a Huge Pail.  Once done, you cover it with Sawdust.   It has minimal (if any odor!).  Once the bucket is full, he has a pit surrounded by hair bales where he dumps it and mixes in grass and straw.  This in turn composts and by next spring he will have a great organic fertiliser, good for plants and flowers, but not suggested for edible organics.   Pretty cool.


They are also a part of a large art project for Burning Man.  Their group is creating a large 12 Petal Lotus Flower.  You can sit in the centre, and the petals open and close.  I believe there is also a  mountain scape to represent the AB foothills.  This lovely project will be hauled down in pieces to Burning Man and will be displayed with 21 other art pieces.  Then they will all be burnt at once.  Epic!  One of the reasons for his little gathering was a 'Test Burn' to see how the material would act on fire.

Quinn and Ivy were the only kids there.  They sure had fun!  Kev's parents are Grandparents to 6 little ones under 10 so they have a trampoline, swing set, yard toys, sandbox, ect, not to mention just SPACE to run around!

So while they kept themselves entertained we hung out at the large fire pit.  It was a fabulous evening.


SATURDAY

In the morning, those of us who stayed overnight hung out and chilled.  Another beautiful day.  We left for home in the early afternoon and just hung out and chilled for the rest of the day at home.


SUNDAY


I met Lisa & Ivy at Riley Park for Colleen K's son's b-day.  We had a great time.  The weather was 30 degrees, we had shade if needed the kids played played played, and Lisa and I spend all afternoon floating together using a pool noodles  (one as a foot-stool, and one as a shoulder rest)  LOL  It was awesome!  We just floated about as if we were the only ones in the pool.

It's so neat bringing Quinn there as I spent so many of my summer days as a child in the same place.  We made it home by 6, Lawrence had dinner ready for us then we watched a family movie.  Perfect Day!


MONDAY


Lair had to work  :(   Lisa & Ivy picked us up around noon and we went to Caloway Park!  Another action packed fun day that's for sure!  The sun was shining, the kids were well behaved, pure Awesome.  Would you believe Quinn is big enough to go on the Big Roller coaster!?  I couldn't believe it.... but I fibbed to him and said he wasn't quite tall enough and maybe next year would be his year.   He still enjoys the 'baby coaster' so much - I don't want to take the simple things away from him just because he's tall.

A long fun day ended when Lisa dropped us off at 6:30pm for home made burgers by Lair.  MMMmm!  Nummy!


FANTASTIC FUN FILLED LONG WEEKEND!