[bootsnixon]

Same as Money Guy, farmed and farmed.
The story I like to brag about a man I never met was my grandfather on my Mom's side. He came from Ireland with his two older brothers. He was 14 and his brothers 16 and 17. The oldest got a job in Calgary doing construction. The younger two couldn't find work but heard you could homestead land south of Stettler. So a 14 and 16 year old boy spent a winter with absolutely nothing inside a handmade sod house in the middle of nowhere. Somehow they survived and my grandfather impressed the one room school teacher ( my grandmother ) enough that she married him and they had 10 kids and developed a farm. I look at my 15 year old son and question if he could survive alone with a stocked kitchen and heated house, lol. Sadly my grandfather died the year before I was born so only heard stories. I am in awe of him.