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Friday, February 29, 2008

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.

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