Our International Moose Incident

Yesterday, while Peter was out in the field combining, he noticed two moose running like crazy across the field, over a fence and off into the west. He radioed us all to get our attention. Unfortunately, the boys and I were on our way out the door to voice lessons and karate, so we had to miss the whole thing. Apparently, what happened later was quite spectacular.
Not long after Peter alerted us, my brother-in-law, John T., was walking in the field and he happened to notice two moose heads bobbing up and down inside a large water tank that surrounds one of the gas wells on our land. He alerted somebody - not sure who - and soon the whole countryside was out here, cheering for these moose and trying to help them out. They were as mad as heck as you can well imagine, so it was not too easy to get close. Some brave soul eventually managed to cut a chunk out of the tank and free the moose.
Today, we went and had a look at the site of the event. It looks quite peaceful now, with a nice square-shape cut out of the tank and not too much evidence of a struggle. Nobody has seen the moose since. They probably decided there is better swimming somewhere else in the world.

"Oh, there's nothing halfway..."

A couple of weeks ago, I went to "Music Man" camp with my two elder sons while they auditioned for roles for the November production in Maple Creek. It was quite fun, really. I sewed 6 vests and an apron on a serger, and moved a number of buttons. They have stacks of old costumes at Camp Shagabec, where they always hold their music camps, and every year a number of seamstresses get together and try to adjust them for the current performance.
Daniel will be a salesman in the beginning train scene, then he will be the bass singer in the quartet for the rest. Joseph has several roles - he will be the train conductor at the beginning, the constable for most of the rest, with brief stints as the farmer in the Iowa song and a townsperson in the Wells-Fargo song. He also gets to dance and sing in "Shipoopi" which will be fun.
After I finished all my sewing, I moved to the kitchen, where I mostly sat and watched the professional cooking staff do their thing. Thank Heaven they liked just having company in there, because I wasn't much use for anything else. I did get to clean windows at the end, though.
Now we're off to Maple Creek every Sunday afternoon from now till the performances in November.