school for mice

Out and about the other day we cam upon a schoolhouse. Not looking very promising from the outside we checked it out anyways and were surprised by what we found. A piano, learning materials, dishes & chairs still remain in this school. What was strange was the amount of mice around this schoolhouse. Someone must have gone crazy with the mouse poisen because everytime i turned around there was another dead mouse.

Don't scroll all the way to the bottom if you have sensitive eyes!

 

 

lake discoveries

Well, I finally made it up to the lake this year. Its about time considering last year I never made it up. Of course any trip to the lake is an excuse to explore on the way up or on the way back. This trip was no exception. I explored on the way up and made a couple new discoveries.

Highlights:
- got into a church I never had access to before
- found a ghost town and an abandoned school
- visited one of my favorite ukrainian churches in the province

good ole' construction - this guy had it good with his lawn chair beside his car

ghost town mash up

These days it seems everyone is fascinated with ghost towns. Most of the time its because these people are pickers but there are people that are just fascinated with the fact that people can leave an entire town, everything in their homes and never return. I have seen many of these towns all over this province so it doesn't surprise me when we visit a town only to find one or no one living there. a

On this recent trip after the great race we headed out to do some more exploring and found a couple ghost towns. I decided to mash them all together into one blog post with my favorite pictures. And yes, even the church with the power was in a ghost town - we find buildings with power on in ghost towns more frequently then one would except.

west is warm

This trip is the definition of last minute. Saskurbex and I didn't have a plan until the very last minute and the area we explored was chosen because it was supposed to be the warmest area in the province that day . We gathered up our gear and hit the road with only a few locations in mind.

At the start of the day the roads were nice and the sun was out. The downfall was the windchill, it was very cold and so we could only spend a short time outside before we started to freeze. As the day went on the weather got worse and by the end of the night there was blowing snow all over the roads complete with some freezing rain. We took a secondary highway back which was not to bad but then decided to move to the main highway which may have been a mistake. There was whiteout conditions and everyone was slow moving. Between having to scrap the windshield of freezing rain, windchill, blowing snow and crazy drivers it was an interesting night.

We did find a few neat things on the trip so that made it worthwhile. Here are some of the highlights:

- finding a church with power
- creating techno beats on an old electric organ
- finding a couple old school houses
- a school with power & full of antiques, no lock on the door
- annoying saskurbex with ode to joy on the piano
- very deep snow
- saskurbex driving us into the ditch

church pride

Saskurbex and I decided to go out exploring for the evening. We had this planned in advance and both chose different directions to find things. Before we went out we chose the direction with what we thought would have the most pay off. The car was packed with all out gear and we hit the road. The night was a success because we got to see places we had never been before.

Some highlights:
- full size Ukrainian, Canadian & Saskatchewan flags
- a Ukrainian church i have not seen, fully intact
- finding a stone historic church
- old fire extinguishers
- a church with a cedar interior
- finding a mailbox in a graveyard that said - sign our quest book

I am part Ukrainian - just showing my pride!

and lets not forget Saskatchewan