Hubby's Workplace

This is the Irving Pulp Mill in Saint John, NB (Canada) and is where my hubby works. An EXTREMELY wide angle camera lens would have produced a picture that would have included the Irving Paper Mill located to the left of this photo. The 2 structures are linked as pulp is made in this building and then fed to the adjacent paper mill for processing into products you use on a daily basis: toilet paper, paper towels and kleenex. Hubby is an Instrumentation Technician and works/fixes the computerized controls on the equipment. It is physically demanding work and as about as far from being a soldier (hubby`s previous profession) as one could imagine.

This is an extremely noisy, hot and dangerous environment, with a lot of steam and high pressure in the pipes and valves. Equipment breaks down often because it is old and operated on a 24/7 basis. It is certainly not a place for the faint of heart.