Blueprints!

I was investigating the possibility of building our own barn when Brady and I move to our acreage- our dream home at some point in the hopefully-not-too-far-future- instead of having contractors do the honors or requiring a pre-existing structure to be on the property. So I did some research and ended up finding this really amazing site which provides blueprints for some pretty wicked looking barn and a list of required materials for a small fee. It was pretty exciting to envision building one of these things; I am not sure on how realistic it is to think that Braids and I could build one from top to bottom on our own. Especially since some of them are rather large structures, but it's still an exciting thought.
Anyway the site is Apple Valley Barns and I thought it was pretty neat. My favorite is probably either the Laredo Four-Stall Barn or the Wichita 4-Stall Barn.

A true Saskatchewan boy...

A few days ago I was able to pilfer some rhubarb off of an empty lot. Jon, one of my coworkers, saw it with me and was excited enough to go and grab about 30 stalks and split them with me. I brought it home and showed it Sara and she was mildly interested not understanding the versatility of rhubarb, a vegetable (maybe?) surpassed only by zucchini. Well now its been a few days and the appeal of fresh rhubarb is lost when it sits in the refrigerator for several days. So tonight I made a cake with it. By all accounts now I suppose that I can claim to be a true Saskatchewanian. According to the recipe it's Fabulous Rhubarb Cake, but we'll just have to see about that. All I know is that it has enough brown sugar in it to appeal to Sara no matter what she thinks of rhubarb.

A Novel

I have decided that I am going to write a novel. Brady suggested it in the car today on our way home from being in town. We watched the movie 'The Proposal' with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds. It was very cute and quite funny. Anyway,on the way home we were just chatting and talking about how it would be a very interesting and fun job to be an editor (the profession of Bullock in the film) because you'd get to read some pretty neat books in all likelihood. We agreed on that fact and Brady added that he thought I should write a novel. Now, I have been an avid writer pretty much my whole life. Nothing major but I've written somewhere between 20 or 30 short stories, stories and half-hacked attempts at novels. All of this just for the pure enjoyment of losing myself in a world of my own imagination. I am also fond of games which revolve around creating a character and writing in a fictional world from their perspective and interacting with other characters authored by other people; call me a nerd, but it is a really enjoyable pass time for me as a hobbyist-writer.



At any rate, our talk got me thinking and I've been doing a lot of research online on 'how to write a novel.' I think I've decided to do it. Now I just have to come up with something creative and intelligent to write about. That should be fun!