hill billy ghost town

I went up to my cabin and decided to do some exploring in the area. The area north of my cabin is what people like to call "hill billy country". It's full of small, mostly abandoned towns where people will live in virtually any type of housing and most run on wood stoves. This area is also full of hunters during the right season as it is quite forested. I spent a few hours driving through some of the towns and came across this one, a small quaint town full of abandoned houses and buses convereted into homes.. thats right - a bus house.

sask security

Once and a while on trips we run into an area where people are very concerned about their abandoned buildings and make silly attempts to protect them. Most places have what i call "Saskatchewan security" - usually a small wire, broken padlock, wooden board, cement block or broken handle.

On this most recent trip i encountered some things i had never seen before. One was a no trespassing sign nailed to a door... from the inside. The nails were all the way around the outside sticking out. Apparently if you get to close you will learn your lesson? I would like to meet the person that pulled this one off.
We walked up to a church and realized it had a giant board across it. After removing the board and putting it to the side we tried to open the doors - after a bit of tugging saskurbex took off the entire door. It was soon obvious why the board was across the doors in the first place, not to keep people out but to keep the doors on.

signage insanity

No, i am not obsessed with signage. It seems that every abandoned building is covered in signage and most of it does not make sense but if by chance it does its portrayed in an insane way. This province is covered in signage from posters to warnings to road signs we have it all. Here are some crazy ones i found on my latest adventure:

in an elevator

in a church - first part makes sense but "E" - what??

the only book in this church - was at the entrance

what? this is saskatchewan is it not?

industrial building - taken by saskurbex

typical saskatchewan, in 30km there will be another sign

purpose of signage

In my opinion the only purpose of signage is so people can take pictures of it. Seriously, many people take pictures of signage(and yes i am one of those people). I spend more time taking pictures of signage then i do actually obeying them. Here are some of the signs i took pictures of (and never actually obeyed.) :)

CAUTION ASBESTOS

RESTRICTED AREA unauthorized entry by order of base commander
DANGER UNDERGROUND MINE unstable ground subject to sudden collapse KEEP OUT
EXPLOSIVES
These premises are declared unsanitary and unfit for occupation By order of the public health officer
POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS
No Trespassing
WARNING-DANGER Persons entering this area or beyond this point enter at their OWN RISK
Beware of Dog
This area under video surveillance
No Trespassing, violators will be prosecuted
Danger! Open Hole
Wipe feet in tray when leaving tunnel