Weekend at the rodeo!

            So these past two weekends have been full of excitement. I started my first weekend by going to a rodeo I talked about in my earlier blog. I have never been to a rodeo before and I was looking forward all week to go to one. They had many different competitions ranging from all ages but my two favorite competitions they held were the bull take-down and they held a bucking competition for ages 7-10 with sheep which I thought was adorable to watch.  Each cowboy who tried to overcome each challenge gave it their all and each of their times were very close to each other making competition fierce between them. The rodeo was a great experience and even if you needed something else to do just in case you dint like the competition being held at the moment they had different carnival rides also going on.

            To end the week I went out for a nice late night swim down at the rotary park here in town but the swim made me wide awake and I didn’t want to just go home and doze off so I went out for a pool game with some of my friends I made here in town. I was surprised the town was still so alive in the late hours.

            The next weekend I planned to just relaxed and go for a swim but friend from college back in Ontario moved down to Grand Prairie and came down to white court for the weekend to visit me. After talking and going around town with her it made me really start to miss home again and made me think that this summer is already almost over and it makes me torn whether or not I can’t wait to go back home but I’m enjoying all my experience this summer so far and can’t wait for the next thing to happen to tell my readers about it. So With my last blog posts through august I will try to add as much photos and other content to my blog as I can for you my readers

goose, newspapers and events ohh my!

So much has gone on these past few weeks I have been in two different newspapers regarding my internship and even had a reporter come out to talk to me! During the interview they asked me about what I thought about the way I got this internship because it was a very unique way to apply and different questions that are along that line and the other newspaper I am in is congratulating me on my internship from Millar Western. The links to the different newspapers are in the bottom (July 12^th the other link will be posted). I’m also posting some pictures of some log piles that I marked to be harvested along the road I did my disposition on I was talking about in my other blog. The log piles you see are at every kilometer down the road for at least 23 kilometers in total. Each log pile is a different size and in total is a lot of cubic wood. This weekend a Rodeo is happening in Whitecourt and I can’t wait to go! I have never been to a rodeo and I will be taking many photos to show my readers here on the blog so hopefully you’re looking forward to seeing them. I even had some close encounters with some of the wild life here in Alberta some of them a little too close for comfort. Earlier in the week I seen my first moose and it was just slowly walking across the road I never knew moose could be so big, too bad I dint have my camera on me to show you my readers a picture and my other close encounter was with a family of goose going across the road they were at least 10 metre’s away and I got out of my truck to get a close up with my camera and when I got out of my truck the mother goose brought her head like a snake and started hissing and slowly coming at me. I ran back into my truck and started laughing at what just happened and missed my chance at a good photo of the family. The only good photo of the wild life I have seen so far is of a hawk on some power lines on the edge of the forest and I will post the photos in this post also. But this week has been full of adventures and puzzles working and trying to find the different culverts and what should be done to them in the future I even had the opportunity to ATVing out to a few culverts. But I will have my next post up soon with some pictures of the activities that are going on this weekend till next time!

http://eedition.whitecourtstar.com/doc/Whitecourt-Star/wcpr_071013/2013070801/3.html#2

Culvert inspections and overview

For this blog I have created a quick video on what a culvert inspection is and a few things we look for when we go out to do one of these inspections just click the first link below.  I will be doing lots of these inspections through the summer because I’m currently in charge of completing all the inspections for all the roads under Millar Westerns FMP. Also I’m glad to see all the feedback I’m getting back from the survey I put out in my last blog and realized that you my readers are enjoying reading about the white court community and I will put this in consideration when  making my next upcoming blogs. So far this past week I have been doing culvert inspections at work but on the long weekend I went out to the rotary park here in white court to go see some local fun and go swimming to break the heat. This was a great way to break up the week and makes me look forward to the next upcoming event that will be held at the rotary park. If I get some positive feedback from this video I included here I am thinking about making a few more of my blog post different events of my day. I also want to add that the link below is of a manual for going out to do culvert inspections and you can watch the video and go through the form to see some of the main points I address on the video. Thanks for taking some time out of your busy life to read these blogs and take my survey last week till next time viewers!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftefpVwkvhE&feature=youtu.be

http://srd.alberta.ca/LandsForests/LandManagement/documents/RoadwayWatercourseCrossingInspManual-Sep20-2012.pdf