the mice are invading as of late! war is on, peanut butter bait has been place and the traps are ready to snap! we have caught a few but im sure their are many more. 

In other news, we, as staff, recently went on a weekend hike to Cliff's little cabin in the woods. if you don't know, cliff is the big Boss man here at the edge. this trip was definitely one of epic proportions. we basically drove out to pembina valley until the long and empty farm road we were on decided it would end, put on surrels, lots of clothes and our big packs loaded with sleeping gear and food. then we ventured off into the great white unknown in knee deep snow, windchill factor probably being -40. well actually we walked for about an hour and a half across some farm fields, and cliff knew exactly where he was going. when we arrived we found his cabin to be a small bunkhouse with 4 beds and wood stove. it was everything we needed. at this point it was already late in the evening so we unpacked, snacked a bit and enjoyed each others company. the next morning we went for a hike, wrestled in the snow, restocked the fire wood for the next visit, shot some cans with cliffs shotgun, and bonded over Gods glorious creation. 

Genesis 1:20:21 And God said, let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky. So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. and God saw that it was good. 

we served dinner during edge club last night and it was so rad! roast beef and baked taters!! all courtesy of cliffs church in winkler. the new kitchen is DOMINATING. one other really cool thing about it to was that the attention span of a kid with a full and nourished stomache is a lot more attentive than one that is full of their evening chocolate bar.

its a new year! i'm back at the edge and killin it! we got our first big meal for the club night meal program on wednesday, so stoked. things are moving here though. at the last staff meeting we collaborated all our visions for this next year and came up with a fairly detailed planning document. This year is gonna be GOOD. two big plans im thinking about are: new promo vid! (i think i might actually be the one who is going to take care of that project, might even start brainstorming right after i finish this post, who knows..), and the internship program. this was a vision of ours last year already, but we had some un-forseen complications. well, the two guys who were going to do it dropped out last second. oh well, just more time to make better preparations. so much has been done for this already, much more will be done asap! speaking of un-forseen complications though, this morning we arrived here to find what cliff likes to call "niagara falls." so im not sure why the falls decided to relocate in our park, but it went down. so we have a leak in our roof, good times! but edge staff crew just grew again, Andrew doerksen, also know has HOJ, will be here as another part time staff member, he is legit and as they say "throws it down." so thats the latest, come check out the edge! we are all over visitors!