Afternoon all, from a very soggy West Coast after 10 days of beautiful sunshine. Just about time to turn the furnace on as it is going down to 5c tonight.
I must compliment all those that contributed to last months location of the diner, it was quite an enjoyable visit. I am also appreciating what we have seen so far this month, well done.
Got the pool down and we are ready for hockey if the weather gets cold enough. We often have years where the temp never gets down to freezing and some years we get a good cold stretch. I flood the pool pad for hockey if it does get cold enough.
Summer mode.
Winter mode.
Rapido has a new video of the Royal Hudson hauling a string of coaches up a 3% helix without breaking a sweat. It is on FB but I will not post it as the last Rapido video I posted got removed. It is easy to find.
The three annual train shows I like to attend all happen in the space of a month. I wish they were spread out more as the rest of the year it is pretty dry around here in the train show department. There is a good one in Seattle I have yet to attend, so maybe this year.
Spent the last couple of days helping a group in Seattle with information on sledge hockey. They really struggle financially down there to put programs together. We get so much corporate sponsorship for all things hockey we have a hard time spending all the money we get sometimes. I think last year we had $14,000.00 left over. We will probably use it this year to help sponsor other countries to come to our tournament(s)
We have a lot of wounded warriors participate and a few years ago even had a group of disabled Vets from Colombia come up that were injured in the war on drugs. They loved the sledge hockey and we also took them to the ski slopes for some disabled skiing. I have heard they have made great strides in disabled sports since their visit. We have been getting photos.
About ten days ago there were two tornados in the Ottawa area and the kid was without power for 28 hours. All the stuff in the freezer was going to go bad so the guys cooked it all up and provided hot dinners to a bunch of neighbours that were cleaning up after the storm. Great kids.
He is lovin University, even more, this year than last as he has left the political world behind and is focusing on business/marketing/economics/entertainment and contract law. He still thinks the business side of the film industry is the direction he may go. He has made good contacts that he talks to often.
We are waiting to see him in two episodes of "The Man In The High Castle" and an episode of "Loudermilk" both on Amazon and a Christmas movie coming out that apparently will go to theatres. Don't know what it is called though. It was a lower budget dime a dozen job that will end up being one of those gazillion Christmas movies you see every year.
Not getting any action on selling the trailer so will likely keep it and use it next year. It is in pretty good shape but is requiring some of the more costly maintenance items soon. Have decided the big "class A" motorhomes are not for us. They would be ideal for dog shows, however the rest of the time we are into the more backcountry type of camping. We have decided a new truck and trailer is the best option for us. We like to go ghost towning in some pretty remote places and the P/U with the off road package has been a perfect fit. Drop the trailer and go explore.
The truck is almost 19 years old and is excellent in the backcountry and the trailer is a 2007. Time to modernize though. Now the kids are not coming along, the bunks can go and a couple of lazyboys will make roughing it much easier. We saw some models that had the old geezers layout.
Well, the Sun just came out so I think we'll go for a quick six km with the dogs. They are filming "Supernatural" in the park so maybe I'll go get discovered.
All the best to all.
Oops! After seeing a few different things in the news in the last couple of days and the way the kid dealt with the power outage, I thought of this that we use to have on our fridge.
