A council estate raised British city girl trying to make it in rural Canada

Home and getting ready to go again!

Quadding is the best fun EVER.

Doing it in the wild is a bit different to pottering about round the yard. First off, everyone goes faster than I thought they would, and over bigger obstacles, and deeper mud holes :(.

The very first day you head off out into the bush and find some dead trees to chop down so collect wood for the week, the men do the chopping, the girls load it to their quads and haul it back to camp :)

Theres my hubby looking all redneck with an axe!!!!! The two guys to the left are Steve (cousin) and Uncle Kelly, they are both surveyors for an oil company, so their working life entails them going out into the bush on quads and chopping down trees lol, so this was a bit like a busmans holiday for them, although it does explain how the pair of them are such good riders, managing to manouever their machines into and out of places I wouldn't dare think of lol.

The first tricky mud hole I dared go through, I remembered uncle Kellys advice "when in doubt, pin 'er to the nuts". So I did. And got stuck at a 90 degree angle in the deepest rut ever up to my right knee in muddy water with the quad, which i'm sure was thinking "shall I just topple a little over to the right and dump her off????????".

As the quad was thinking that I'm yelling for help, which of course no one does cos they are laughing too much.

All of a sudden I hear my gorgeous hubby come racing up behind, I think "awwwwww how sweet he's coming to rescue me",

Does he?

No

He floors the accelerator as he level with me and kicks a shit load of mud over me and the quad.

Uncle Kelly said later "I could hear you shout "You f*****g c***" at him from back where I was"

Then Darcy got off his quad and came to my rescue, he stood on the left side of mine to give it traction on that side which was not touching the ground, and I made it out of the hole. He also said "What the f*** are you in 2wd for???????????????"

Hmmmmmmmm I'd forgottent o put it in 4wd obviously so thats why I got stuck lol.

here's a pic of my hubby going through a mud hole properly lol

With all his weight on the left side of the quad BEFORE it starts to tip lol.

Any way aside from all that we had so much fun, it was 5 days of drinking, smoking, hanging out, playing games and quadding. Although the saga with the trailer continues.

We loaded everything up before the trip and were impressed that two full sized quads fit in there. The electrical bits inside worked perfectly and all was going smooth, until we switched the generator on, it was making some funny noises and then something in the main fuse box went "BANG". I go running into the trailer, see the smoke and immediately think "the shitheads at the RV place are going to get it BIG TIME"

So that was that. No generator power.

We had to cut cut our trip short by a day. For no other reason than in the trailer there is a fuel tank which we filled with gas, so when you go quadding in the bush you are not hauling jerry cans of fuel with you. But the fuel tank needs the generator to run, and as the quads were on empty ofter the last days riding and we couldn't fill them up again, we though ahhhh screw it, we'll head of home anyway.  Luckily we had enough bettery power to pull in the slide out and awning.

Needless to say I got home and called the RV people, they came to collect it on Tuesday (it's now Saturday) and I todl them we need it fixed before our next trip in a couple of weeks.

Right now this minute Darcy has just gone back to the rig, and I'm sat on the deck in the sun drinking coffee and NOT smoking. It's been 3 days since I had one and I decided to stop because of the amount that got smoked when we were camping. It was retarded. So far so good, am not making promises but for now I don't feel like one :)

Although a couple of days ago I did :( I ran the lawn tractor out of oil and something when bang. I didn't realise it was out of oil ans thought that I'd hit a stone.

Apparently not. It blew the engine and Darcy wasn't happy. We had to buy a new one which I pick up on Tuesday $1300 for a pissing lawn mower engine :( I was in the dog house and had to borrow nana and papas mower to do the yard with yesterday, which i'll be taking back tomorrow.

So for now, the weather is awesome, the quads just need polishiing up and putting away in the shed and then I thik I'll go and do some finishing work in the basement before my daughter from the UK comes to stay for a month in a couple of weeks :)

I'll take pics of the clock maybe later lol