12-02-2016, 03:29 PM
Good afternoon from the wet and very windy West Coast of Canuck land.
The weather people are thinking we may get a dump of the white stuff early next week. It has been a while since we have seen more than a trace of snow in this part of the country, some years the temp does not even get to freezing on the coast. Maybe the Farmers Almanac will be right this year, as it predicted at least two big dumps of snow this year. When I was a kid the local pond would freeze up in winter and it would be hockey til midnight. That pond has not seen ice in years, you don't have to convince me of global warming.
Lows to -6c are predicted as an Artic front comes down for a visit.
Bear, the #1 son wants to be a Crown Prosecutor and go after the scumbags he thinks get off far too easy. He then thinks he would like to make it to the position of Judge and sit on the Supreme Court of Canada. He was in the top 1% in his Provincial Exams last year and a couple of years earlier tied with two others for top mark in the province. He is getting courted by Universities from all over the world. He can basically do whatever he wants, why he would want to go over to the "Dark Side" is beyond me. He loves fierce debate and usually wipes the floor with his opponents.
The headmaster greets him with "high fives" when he represents his school as the results tend to go in his favour. He has also mentioned politics as a possible direction down the road. I think that would be too frustrating for him though, as he can't stand the fact that the general population has no clue what is going on in the world. He was in a speed quiz competition a while back. They posted a photo of every flag in the world and he had two minutes to name the country and its leader. He got fifty-two correct. He has been a lot smarter than me since a young age, He will admit I still have more street smarts though. I guess that is worth something.
The wife is not to be held back. Not long after we were married I came home from a long shift out in the cold at the airport. There she was with the hood up on the car replacing the water pump. She said the garage couldn't do it until the next day and she was on call that night, so she thought "how hard can it be" and then said, " I do micro surgery on animals, how hard can a water pump be". I asked if she wanted help and she said no she was just about done. It worked perfectly. Oh ya she also put in a new thermostat while she was at it.
For those of you having search engine issue's, try Google Chrome. My son installed that for me as Safari and Firefox just did not work anymore on the forums. Google Chrome is very fast.
Tom, hopefully, it will not be long until you are at the other end of these never ending family issue's that keep getting thrown at you. I am sure it helps at least little to be able to share them here and please know we are listening. Please keep us in the loop. Hoping for the best.
Time to go hang more Christmas lights before I have to go get my daughter at school and take her to the barn for her riding lesson. ( I'LL watch that I don't break any fingers like the wife did ) It will be a cold damp three hours there for this guy.
Someone said I have a model railroad layout around here somewhere. REALLY! ????
Brent
The weather people are thinking we may get a dump of the white stuff early next week. It has been a while since we have seen more than a trace of snow in this part of the country, some years the temp does not even get to freezing on the coast. Maybe the Farmers Almanac will be right this year, as it predicted at least two big dumps of snow this year. When I was a kid the local pond would freeze up in winter and it would be hockey til midnight. That pond has not seen ice in years, you don't have to convince me of global warming.
Lows to -6c are predicted as an Artic front comes down for a visit.Bear, the #1 son wants to be a Crown Prosecutor and go after the scumbags he thinks get off far too easy. He then thinks he would like to make it to the position of Judge and sit on the Supreme Court of Canada. He was in the top 1% in his Provincial Exams last year and a couple of years earlier tied with two others for top mark in the province. He is getting courted by Universities from all over the world. He can basically do whatever he wants, why he would want to go over to the "Dark Side" is beyond me. He loves fierce debate and usually wipes the floor with his opponents.
The headmaster greets him with "high fives" when he represents his school as the results tend to go in his favour. He has also mentioned politics as a possible direction down the road. I think that would be too frustrating for him though, as he can't stand the fact that the general population has no clue what is going on in the world. He was in a speed quiz competition a while back. They posted a photo of every flag in the world and he had two minutes to name the country and its leader. He got fifty-two correct. He has been a lot smarter than me since a young age, He will admit I still have more street smarts though. I guess that is worth something.The wife is not to be held back. Not long after we were married I came home from a long shift out in the cold at the airport. There she was with the hood up on the car replacing the water pump. She said the garage couldn't do it until the next day and she was on call that night, so she thought "how hard can it be" and then said, " I do micro surgery on animals, how hard can a water pump be". I asked if she wanted help and she said no she was just about done. It worked perfectly. Oh ya she also put in a new thermostat while she was at it.
For those of you having search engine issue's, try Google Chrome. My son installed that for me as Safari and Firefox just did not work anymore on the forums. Google Chrome is very fast.
Tom, hopefully, it will not be long until you are at the other end of these never ending family issue's that keep getting thrown at you. I am sure it helps at least little to be able to share them here and please know we are listening. Please keep us in the loop. Hoping for the best.
Time to go hang more Christmas lights before I have to go get my daughter at school and take her to the barn for her riding lesson. ( I'LL watch that I don't break any fingers like the wife did ) It will be a cold damp three hours there for this guy.
Someone said I have a model railroad layout around here somewhere. REALLY! ????
Brent