Rain out

Well I got the weekend off and a few days besides. Hectic very hectic, just never know what this job will throw at me. Got the Edson job done and am now finding out that it may not be drilled at all...doesn't matter to me, but its a shame just the same, really want to see the oil company do well or there is no future work.

Moved on up to Grande Cache and just about completed two abandonments before we got rained out. I love Grande Cache, pretty little mountain town, one of the few in Alberta. They have this annual event called the Canadian Death Race, some sort of ultra-marathon through the wilderness....I want to get the front license plate with the skull for my truck, because I can do that because I don't have a front provincial plate in Alberta unlike communist BC.

Anyway on rainout day last Friday I got an email to go view a site at Valleyview that needs 500m of muskeg pad road built before the 15th of July. I have to say one of THE best purchases I made this year was a $700 progran for my GPS. Its called Patch Map from Skybase Mapping. It lets me enter any LSD and will drive me right to that site, came in very handy this time. When I think of the old days (Like last year) and using my map book or calling the survey company for Lats and Longs, this is just so much easier.

Like I said its been hectic, I also had a job up at Smoky Lake again, moved a rig in on the 12km road that we built last year. What a nightmare....the road hasn't been used or maintained all year and then all this heavy traffic really f@cked things up....I am dreading getting the final report in order because we had to spend some money and all the rain really didn't help things.

Talking (chatting) with a good online friend tonight was nice, she reads the blog and I always look forward to chatting with her...so good advice Crazy, I will be sure to try and do it.