11-15-2016, 11:05 AM
Good morning all.
We were up at 0500Hrs this morning for the hour drive through very heavy rain and rush hour traffic, to get the wife in for her surgery on her hand. She was scheduled first into the O/R, which tells us, hers will be the longest surgery of the day. We were told that they book the surgeries longest to shortest. Hopefully, she will have a quick recovery. We don't realize how much she does for us all until we have to start doing it for ourselves.
Had a busy long (Remembrance day) weekend as my cousins flew in from Winnipeg for the playoff game between the B.C. Lions and Winnipeg Blue Bombers. They treated a bunch of us family members to the game by buying all our tickets for us. I almost felt guilty cheering for the Lions.
The Lions won 32 to 31 in a very exciting game.
I hope our friendly Bear didn't suffer too many derailments (or worse) with the big earthquake in New Zealand. My sister has a few friends down there and has been getting sporadic reports on the situation. We are over a hundred years overdue for a big shake here on the West Coast. We are very prepared with 150 LTRs of water and lots of emergency freeze dried food, a generator and a ton of other things we may need. Living rural and having lost power for days at a time, we learned early how important it was to be self sufficiant.
Despite having to do double duty on the home front, I have actually been getting some train time in. I finally pulled my Walthers turntable out of the box that I got three years ago for Fathers Day and am ready to install it. Hopefully soon I will be making my loco's dizzy.
Tom, I am sorry to hear of more rough times ahead. I am sending positive thoughts your way and keeping my fingers crossed for you and your son. My brother-in-laws sisters family of six has been battling cancer since I have known them. She had it first (skin cancer) and recovered, then her husband passed away from Prostate cancer that spread, and now all four of their children aged 35 to 50 are fighting this horrible desease. My very bad Arthritis just doesn't seem worth mentioning some days, when I see what others are going through.
It would be nice to have some days in the year where everything was closed and we could pull back from the hustle and bustle we all face (even in retirement). Having been a federal employee and realizing the world never slows down, I know this can't happen. Remembrance day is the one day that I think a real effort should be made to bring everything to a halt for the day, in Canada at least. It seems to be less important as the years go by and this saddens me.
Positive thoughts for a great day to all.
Brent
We were up at 0500Hrs this morning for the hour drive through very heavy rain and rush hour traffic, to get the wife in for her surgery on her hand. She was scheduled first into the O/R, which tells us, hers will be the longest surgery of the day. We were told that they book the surgeries longest to shortest. Hopefully, she will have a quick recovery. We don't realize how much she does for us all until we have to start doing it for ourselves.
Had a busy long (Remembrance day) weekend as my cousins flew in from Winnipeg for the playoff game between the B.C. Lions and Winnipeg Blue Bombers. They treated a bunch of us family members to the game by buying all our tickets for us. I almost felt guilty cheering for the Lions.
The Lions won 32 to 31 in a very exciting game.I hope our friendly Bear didn't suffer too many derailments (or worse) with the big earthquake in New Zealand. My sister has a few friends down there and has been getting sporadic reports on the situation. We are over a hundred years overdue for a big shake here on the West Coast. We are very prepared with 150 LTRs of water and lots of emergency freeze dried food, a generator and a ton of other things we may need. Living rural and having lost power for days at a time, we learned early how important it was to be self sufficiant.
Despite having to do double duty on the home front, I have actually been getting some train time in. I finally pulled my Walthers turntable out of the box that I got three years ago for Fathers Day and am ready to install it. Hopefully soon I will be making my loco's dizzy.
Tom, I am sorry to hear of more rough times ahead. I am sending positive thoughts your way and keeping my fingers crossed for you and your son. My brother-in-laws sisters family of six has been battling cancer since I have known them. She had it first (skin cancer) and recovered, then her husband passed away from Prostate cancer that spread, and now all four of their children aged 35 to 50 are fighting this horrible desease. My very bad Arthritis just doesn't seem worth mentioning some days, when I see what others are going through.
It would be nice to have some days in the year where everything was closed and we could pull back from the hustle and bustle we all face (even in retirement). Having been a federal employee and realizing the world never slows down, I know this can't happen. Remembrance day is the one day that I think a real effort should be made to bring everything to a halt for the day, in Canada at least. It seems to be less important as the years go by and this saddens me.
Positive thoughts for a great day to all.
Brent