Nothing Like Quadding In Your Own Front Yard

May Long Weekend Fun

For the May long weekend we packed up the quad and headed to the outlaws farm for a family get-together. Some of the other family members also brought their machines. Adam's youngest sister and her fiance just bought a Yamaha side-by-side. It was pretty cool. Plus it could carry a cooler!

We spent Saturday playing in the mud. That was the first time we had ever been stuck. The nice thing about having other people around is that there's someone to put you out! One thing I noticed about the side-by-side is that you tend to get muddier, as Meagan discovered!



Later in the evening we went out and found the perfect water hole to play in. No threat of being stuck in this one even though the water must have been at least 3 feet deep.

Here's a video of us racing through the water.



It was sooo nice to actually have some fun and forget things, even if it was only for a day.

Graveyard

We were out for a tour a while ago and found a church and a graveyard in the middle of nowhere. I don't know why but old graveyards and stuff seem so interesting. It's kinda fun to check out the dates and names and think about what happened and what their lives were like. Must have been a settlement years ago.
The newest tombstone said 1999 but the oldest was 1913. Although there were others that had no dates on them. Half of them were not in English. The consensus seems to be that it's Ukrainian which makes sense because the area is full of French and Ukrainian people.
One thing that we noticed was that there were lots of children and babies buried there. I assume that would be relatively common 100 years ago. There was one where the mom died the day after the baby was born, the baby died three years later, and then the dad died right after that. The other son only lived to 34. Craziness.

The family name on this one "Sopotyk" is the name of a road out here. Guess they were an important family.
We tried Googling the name of the church but it did not really find anything. There is no real signs of a settlement here either. A couple old farm sites but nothing else really. Although I guess all the land around here is either thick bush or farm land now. It's kinda too bad, it would be cool to know. I guess I could find out who takes care of the place (the lawn is mowed) and ask them. It's probably the RM. Or maybe it's better to just keep it a mystery!

Around the country side

We went for a tour the other day and saw some wildlife. Well, only a porcupine, some ducks and birds, and some moose. There were three moose. I think that the one was probably a year or two old and the other two looked like this year, and relatively new too.

I only got a picture of the porcupine butt though.


Can you see the babies? (you can only see one of the babies in the pictures because the other did not stand up) I wonder where the mom is ?


The one baby did stand up to be counted!


I kinda wish we would have seen the mom but on the other hand, I'm kinda glad she wasn't around. She had her kids in a good spot though. They were basically on an island surrounded by thick bush and water. We hadn't seen any moose around since last year. It's nice to know they are still around. Now if the bald eagles would come back, we'd be set!