Well, I’m back from my annual sortie to Bala. This year I drove Tim’s girlfriend, Amy, on that long ride. She’s a really nice kid, but she IS 17, and quiet to boot. Trips were without incident, and I did set a new record of less than 13 hours. WOW.<\/p>\n
It was a bit crowded up there…Viv and I, Tim and Amy, and Brady. Brady is working for Blissymbolics, which does teaching of blissboards for cerebral palsy patients. He lucked into the computer technician job this year (the real guy quit), and he’s doing fine. He knows more than anyone else there does about computers…which doesn’t make him a computer technician, but whathehell. Tim is working stacking cans at the Supermart.<\/p>\n
Viv and I (along with friends Marlene and David) took our kayaks to Lake Joseph(which you might remember, is huge. We didn’t have charts or topos, but we had a small unscaled drawing for our route. After 2 hours we sorta got lost…the swells were large, sun was hots, lotsa big boats. Ended up going at least 20 Km, over about 5 hours…lotsa wind too. Surprisingly, we weren’t in severe pain the next day.<\/p>\n
We have some Hemlock Borer problems in our trees (most of the trees on our property are hemlocks) and one will have to come down. Otherwise the place is fine. The idiot neighbours on both sides are however still endlessly irritating with their zany hi-jinks. Neither of them believe in the concept of Building Permits…guy on the left is aggressively manic half the time (wants town sewers at 20K each because he is building his new house and has no room for a septic system). The guy on the other side built a 20 ft tall monstrosity of a storage building, now is renbovating it to live in. They still have their stupid endlessly shining light which makes it daytime in our bedroom 24\/7. Not that I’m bitter.
\nAfter all, Don’s scones are still the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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