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A week ago the women of Hardisty, Alberta skipped town for an all-expenses paid luxury vacation in the Rocky Mountains. 7 days have ticked by with the men in charge and in that time… well… let’s just say things have been done a bit differently…. There’s been Dad’s daily dinner of BBQ’d meat … novel bath times where kids plus a soapy trampoline equals clean… and most delicious of all, staying up well beyond Mom’s bedtime curfews! Yet, in the midst of the madness, children have grown closer to their fathers and tough prairie men have been brought to their knees.
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We watched while Hardisty's men took up the challenge to care for kids and households while the women took off
for a holiday. Would you like to watch this social experiment again in a different Canadian location?
If so, tell us where...
There’s less than 48 hours to go before all the women return home to Hardisty. As the ladies start packing their suitcases, some of the men are packing up too… On Main Street they’re racing against the clock to finish the surprise community project while at home there are the dishes to get clean, the house to organize and dirty clothes to… well, let’s face it… stack into laundry piles for the ladies to deal with on their return!
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Finally a show about the real cost of the oil patch. People tend to ignore the fact that an oil patch man spends more time on the job than off and only focus on the dollars. It's a love/hate relationship. You enjoy what the oil patch can give you but hate the amount of sacrifice you have to make. I've been an oil patch widow for 16 years and sometimes feel like a single parent and I'm one of the lucky ones, my husband may get 2-4 days off between wells. My husband has made the hard effort not to get caught up in too much work for our daughter's sake. He hasn't missed a birthday yet. I just wanted to say thanks for showing what the job really costs families.
Posted by: Elana Macfie
