Before long we were on the road. We met dad half way to the highway and just let him know we were on our way and would be back in a bit. Like most trips to the registry it took a while to sort everything out. I was getting a new ID as I was changing my address, and they couldn’t’ read the dates on my temporary pink card, so I had to get my insurance company to resend the card. It took a while…
Anyhow, when all was done we stopped at the World’s Largest Ukranian Easter Egg and then continued on.
When we arrived home dad had brunch waiting for us. He had cooked up some eggs, bacon and pancakes, and we enjoyed them with Gilles and Francine’s maples syrup which I had brought home for them to try. It was delicious.
Dad is looking after a horse for a friend, and it is a horse for my two cousins to ride. He is an old 4-H and gymkhana horse so he is usually very quite. This horses name is Chubby. It took a few minutes for us to catch him and bridle him up, but before long I was aboard and so was Alexander. We figured we could double up and go bareback for a short ride and so off we went. We rode quietly down the road, checked out the field and then continued back. We really hadn’t gone far, or for a long ride at all, but Chubby had had enough. When we headed into the driveway he wanted to gallop. I held him back so he decided to buck. With no saddle and two people aboard this is ummm…challenging. The outcome was Alexander being thrown into me and me being thrown into him. It didn't take long and I was chillin out on Chubby’s neck. When I was eye to eye with him he figured he had better stop. Dad came bootin’ it out of the house with the lead rope in town to grab chubby. I jumped off to lead him around, as I wasn’t letting Chubby go back to his friends quite that fast. Alexander stayed aboard and we walked around the farm.
We bumped into my Uncle at the back of the farm and talked with him briefly then we took Chubby back to his friends.
I wanted to show Alexander the view of the lakes at the top of our pasture, so we took my dog, Minto with dads chore van and headed up to the hill. There we walked around and checked out the view and took photos of the fields and the harvested bales that were everywhere. My dog is getting old, so I felt bad for her. She isn’t as active as she was when she was little and it is noticeable as I have grown up with her. I took her to and from the yard in the van and I think she thanked me very much.
I wanted to take my car into Innsfree to run it, as it had been sitting for 5 months. As soon as I turned on the engine, the engine light came on. Crap!!
I phoned dad and he suggested I keep it at the farm and he will look at it when he gets back from work, so that is what we did. We took the Jeep into Innisfree. I wanted to show Alexander where I went to school, where I grew up and where was home for me. I have spent a lot of time around his home (both in Calgary and out in BC) and it felt great to be able to show him where I grew up.
I showed up Innisfree Delnorte School (where I went from K-12). It is much, much different from when I was there, as over the last year and a bit it has undergone catastrophic renovations and downsizing. From there we toured the curling rink and the back streets and then stopped on Mainstreet at the Video Café, which my dad owns and runs. After that, I showed Alexander the bank, post office and museum and within about 10min he had seen ALL of Innisfree.
We headed back to the farm, which is about an 8min drive from Innisfree and went up to feed the baby horses. They are about 6 months old so they are just little. One of them is a Thoroughbred, which was born in the spring and the other dad bought about a month ago to keep the other baby company. They are very,very cute and seem to enjoy each others company.
Alexander took tons and tons of photos—and they were spectacular shots of the farmland and animals and of great silhouettes of the horses out in the pasture. Make sure to check out both of our blogs for those amazing photographs.
My brother had offered to take us out for dinner, so we headed to Vegreville again to meet up with him after work. We went to Boston Pizza and it was great to catch up with what Gem had been upto. Thanks Gem for buying us supper!!!
When I arrived home the phone rang. Dad wanted me to bring my car into down so that a mechanic could look at it in the am, and I could hitch a ride home with him when he was done work and so I did.
When we arrived back home we watched some TV. We were watching Apprentice, since it was on, when dad arrived home. It was a very humorous episode of The Apprentice as the project manager had a huge man-crush on a model and was asked on National Television by Mr. Trump if he was gay. The project manager got redder and redder and more embarrassed and was eventually fired, but it really was quite entertaining.
Dad always seems to find intriguing books and movies to read or watch (probably because he owns a bookstore/movie store) so he suggested we watch the Sculptress. It is an interesting film about the story of a woman who was convicted of murdering her family but who may or may not have done it. It was an extremely long film, so we only watched Part 1, said our goodnights and then headed to bed.
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