Moochdocking – Bashaw, Alberta

We are back in Bashaw! We come here almost every summer to enjoy our family and friends, the prairie life, good fresh farm food, and a yearly family camp-out. Plus we get to moochdock off various family members!!

We have arrived.

Our beautiful site with fabulous views and electricity and no neighbors!!

View of field behind our rig

Our site after some rain (and then some)

View from our front window

Our great site – privacy, peacefulness, and solitude

Our site sits in the beautiful prairies of Alberta surrounded by fields, gardens, flowers, and fabulous scenery.

The surrounding fields

Sunset

Wild mushrooms

Wheat at sunset

View from the farmhouse

Lilly

Flowers in the garden

Huge puff ball – note my foot in the lower left corner

Flower in the early morning dew

Rooster in the window!

Time to do some work to earn our keep!

Trimming trees

Fresh home grown lettuce

The dog

Beautiful Alberta sky!

The town of Bashaw and the surrounding area offers some great farm life scenery including grain elevators, lots of sloughs full of birds, flower gardens, and farmers fields with crops and/or cattle. It is such a beautiful place with open spaces and lots of color!

Ruddy Duck – the male has a light blue beak

Petunias

Bashaw grain elevator

Hay fields by Buffalo Lake

Bashaw grain elevator

Bee on flower

Purple flowers

Orange lillies

Multi-colored flower

Yellow flowers

Holly hocks

Changing the oil in the mower

Longhorn cattle

Heading out to the field

Showing off his new t-shirt from WaWa

Canola field

Canola fields and slough

Great cloud

The long road

Prairie scene

Meeting Creek grain elevator

When ran into town one day to the grocery store and lo and behold the main street was closed off because Gord Bamford was there shooting a music video called “#Redneck”. We decided to stay and check out the fun! The video is now released and it was alot of fun to watch it being filmed.

Gord Bamford’s bus

Woman from video taking a selfie with the donkeys (from the video)

RCMP holding donkeys

Gord

Enjoying the filming and chatting with the Gord’s bus driver

A job that must be done!

Filming outside “Bashaw Sports” – the best gun store in the west

Gord Bamford

Leading donkeys (or pulling donkeys)

Gord Bamford

Film crew and Gord

Filming

Film crew

Shooting the scenes with Mary (on the bench) in shock over seeing the woman ride the donkey

Filming Mary

Girl in the camo cap!

Norm “FINALLY” finds his Dusty Boots!

It is becoming a yearly event for us, attending farm sales!

Auctioneer is Doug Johnson

Parking for auction

Registration for auction

Some of the equipment to be auctioned

The crowd checking things out

Auction on-going

Cat attending the auction

The crowd

The requisite farm sale cat

I finally got to go to “The Alice”! The Alice is a hotel/bar/restaurant in Camrose that I have heard talk about for many, many years. We went out to dinner one night with friends and they recommended eating there. We had a great time with them and it was fun to see where they met and take a stroll down memory lane. It was during the Big Valley Jamboree (BVJ) held in Camrose each year but everyone was already parked and in place for the jamboree so the town was nice and peaceful!