corn country

There is an image in my head that's been haunting me since I saw it.
I was driving down the street, somewhere near five corners when I looked at the on-coming car and saw this:
A tiny car, an old Honda Civic or something. Inside the tiny car, was a very fat lady. This very fat lady was eating a cob of corn. While driving her car. She had an entire cob of corn in her hand, eating it, driving down the street.
I can't stop thinking about it.

The pigs are out!

A friend told me that when you don't feel like writing out big long paragraphs about things that are going on, the best way to remember them is in point form.

-Grace is walking on her own now, it's amazing to see her stomping around. It makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time.
-Todd rigged up an outdoor shower and now we bath under a hose in the back yard.
-We slaughtered Curry the Goat on Friday. It was a hard thing, but it was crazy to be involved in the complete process, from watching the animal die to cutting it up to eating it the next day. I think that it made me even less of a vegetarian.
-The pigs escaped today, Lex and I had to chase them back into the their pen with lots of oinking and clapping.

100 rue du Monastrey

The two weeks here at SNAC as part of the Gooch family have been pretty great. I've been dumpstering and to the drive-in. I've milked goats and chased pigs. I've watered gardens drunk at three in the morning. And then I went camping.
The Canada day weekend camping trip was such a blast and turned out so well considering we had no idea where we were going until we got there. On Saturday morning Me, Todd, Camille, Gooch and Michelle all piled into Michelle's car and headed east with a trunk full of beer and pockets full of dreams. We drove for five hours getting turned down at various campsites along the way until we found ourselves at Caliper Lake, part of the Lake of the Woods in Ontario. We settled down at our lakeside campsite and spent the rest of the weekend swimming, canoeing, drinking and making cowboy coffee. It was good times indeed.
Billeting's almost finished now and after Folk Fest this weekend (and mom and dad!) it's back to normal Katmavik life. Then six weeks of that before it's back to real life. When I think of being home, I'm just a big bubbling mix of excitement and uncertainty. Thanks 100% to Jen, I got an email today from the manager of the Bookman offering me a job and an email interview. It's such an amazing opportuinty (who doesn't want to work at the Bookman?!) but the job comes with a commitment to living in Chilliwack for quite a while. I want this job and I love my friends and family...but I've got the adventure bug. I think I'm starting to understand the expression, you can never go home again.

make it snappy

I've been in Manitoba for a month and I just got around to taking some pictures.


Not much going on out there.


Just a small glimpse of where I work.

For some more pictures...http://www.flickr.com/photos/legault-a-go-go/

Prarie Panic

Yesterday I had my first experince at my new work placement, an organic farm called the St. Norbert Arts Center (here after known as SNAC). I'm house manager right now so I didn't get to start work this week, so last night Todd, Gary and I walked down there and met up with a guy that works there, Alex. We all hopped into some canoes and paddled down the La Salle River to the beer store in town, there's something awesome feeling about buying beer with a paddle in one hand and your barefeet covered mud. Then we got back in the canoes and with the current going our way, floated back to SNAC enjoying the spoils of our trip.
Once we got back there we sat around the firepit just chilling out, drinking and playing guitar. Soon more people joined us around the campfire until it was a full-out party with work partners, old hippies, young hippies and all other sorts of people.
After a few hours of locally-brewed beer and other hippie substances, I staggered home feeling happy, content and oh so excited for the next three months.

Goodbye Fredericton

You've seen the pictures.
You've read the stories.
Now see the movie.

I don't think we're ever going home

I've put a new movie up! It's a little glimps at some of the good times we've had here in New Brunswick.

Full-length version coming soon!