A little update on my health, feeling pretty good and one visit from a visiting nurse and she thinks everything is going well with the incision and other things. Also had two Physical Therapy sessions with the therapist, many of the excercises are the same as the ones I did when I had my hip replacement 12 years ago so they are pretty easy.
Speaking of roofs, while in Alaska one year I had to have my roof shoveled as the weight of the snow was causing the peak of the roof to settle and we had cracks in the drywall at the prow front of the house. The snow was taller than the guy I hired to remove the snow but he did a great job on it. Another thing, that house was so tight it was easy to heat, we never had a gas bill more than $100 in the 8 years we lived in Alaska.
We can use Gas (Boiler #1) or Coal (Boiler #3) Boiler #2 is out of service and has had pipes and valves removed from the boiler so that we will not have to pay for inspections or insurance on that unit. At the moment we are burning gas since that is cheaper than coal.
Went to Beastmarck today for an appointment that was reschedyuled to August, but nobody thought to tell my computer about this. It was beastly hot in Bismarck, but on the drive home the clouds and rain came and it is very pleasant outside now.
So nerds hunt down their heroes for selfies… and “rare meet” selfies are the best. That is not news. Anyone can wait in line at any ComiCon and spend $40.00 for a selfie with Elijah Wood, but hunting down an extra that played Orc#43, that would be a coup for bragging.
I once heard about this guy that was attending an event with his daughter, and thought he saw Anthony Reynolds, you know, the guy that writes rules for wargames.
Well, a quick question or two, and it was verified that actually was Anthony Reynolds, and he ambushed him for a picture. Can you believe that?
After a couple of frosty mornings turning to crisp but clear days, the weather went round to the north and we had rain during the night. This morning’s conditions were ideal to show the steam from the geothermal sites around the village, combining with the low cloud rolling over the Eastern Ridge. It’s now clouded over, so instead of banking the fire, I have stoked it up instead.
When Deadpool 2 came out they asked some of the Mutants if they wanted to go down to California to a Comicon all expenses paid and a decent paycheque as well. The kid could not make it as I think he was heading back to Ottawa for school.
I don’t think I have ever asked anyone for an autograph or a selfie. However! I have a ton of photos of me and lots of different NHL stars. I used to sometimes take a bunch of the kids off our teams to Canucks practices that were closed to the public at Rogers Arena, I had connections. I would take the Nikon as during and after the practices, the players would come over and say hi to the kids and I would take photos of the kids with the players. Almost every time when the players were finished up with the kids the player would say, come on Dad you get one too. I would hand the camera to a kid and get my photo taken. I have quite a few actually.
The kid has some really cool pics of him on set with Rya
It is a beautiful night, I finished watching Tampa beat Colorado in game five of the Stanley Cup final and was looking for something else to dull my senses before bed on the idiot box. I thought this is ridiculous sitting here, grabbed a dog, and did 5.3 km through the bush. Got home and there were stars already out, it was the best. I’ll tell ya, the wildlife is a lot more vocal after the Sun goes down.[(-D]
I burned off my Rum and Pepsis so I am heading to bed happy.
I can’t believe that it is the 25th of June already! The warm months seem to go by very quickly for me. I wish it was the same during the winter! Kevin, you do know what a real winter is don’t you?[swg][(-D][(-D][bow]
The journey through Newfoundland has been very interesting but we need to choose a new location for the Diner for July, and this time I’m sorry to say I don’t have any ideas. That puts the ball squarely in your court. Let’s hear some suggestions!
As I explained before, I spent the Winter of 1986 in Nashville, Tennessee. It was a severe arctic experience I never want to repeat again. It got so cold that the water in the ditches actually became ice… outdoors… it was crazy. I was frozen to the bone for three months. It even snowed… TWICE! Never again, but I made it through that Siberian-style nightmare, somehow.
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The World Is A Beautiful Place
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The above picture was taken tonight in my backyard just as the sun was going down. There was a big cloud right above, and the colorful light show was magnificent.
We do not get all five of our grandchildren here at once. Today we will. CHAOS!! [(-D]
Great picture, Kevin. I love it when Nature etc. ‘plays around’ and the unexected happens. They are once in a lifetime moments.
As for getting a ‘selfie’ of a film extra? I was an ‘extra’ in the 1998 film ‘Elizabeth’. Nobody has asked me for a ‘selfie’. [:-^]. The fact ‘selfies’ were not about then is beside the point. [(-D]. Anyway, I do not want publicity. [(-D]
Sparky Rail, sorry to read about your son’s friend.
Over in WPF I posted a photo, taken at the Tawhiti Museum, of a diorama of a tunnel constructed by hard manual graft.
On the way home, via the “Forgotten Highway we went through the single lane Moki Tunnel, where you could still see the marks on the walls of shovels and picks. (And we think we have it tough!!)
And I think it’s gonna be a long, long time
'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find
I’m not the man they think I am at home
Oh, no, no, no
I’m a rocket man
Rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone
Good morning, diners. Bacon, eggs, and black coffee, please, Brunhilda.
The other day when it was 105° here, I thought about January when we had a stretch of cold weather, hitting -40°. So, in five months, we’ve had a temperature range of 145°. When it’s cold, I want it to be hot, and when it’s hot, I want it to be cold.
I’m not sure if we have any diners from Oklahoma, but I always considered OK as having the worst. They have huge ice storms in the winter, and they have tornadoes the size of small states in the summer.
Ed, that’s a neat photo of the Russian rocket being moved. In New Orleans, the Michoud plant built the fuel tank for the space shuttle. It was moved by barge to Florida. This was just a couple of miles from where I lived in Louisiana:
Bear, it just so happens that on the day you post a photo of a tunnel, I’m beginning work on my layout’s tunnel. I hope my work will not be as difficult as those guys had building the real one.
Nothing else to report. Tomorrow starts another busy stretch of several days.
I was an extra in Gone Fishing, Just Cause, and Day Of The Dead. All of these were filmed right here in Southwest Florida.
The movie The Toy was filmed when I lived near Baton Rouge. One scene was shot in a mall in town. I was a paid teenage extra, but the scene is not in the film.
I will be leaving on vavation to my brother’s place in North Cariolina at 0200 on Monday morning. I will bring a 'puter wiff me, so I ought to be able to pop in now and anon.
In the meanwild I been looking at OooooTooob anf found this classic for youse to look at.
Wow grew up in Oklahoma (Stillwater) and lived there till 1995 (except for four years of college in MO but was back in the summers.) I sure remember the 105 degrees but never the -40’s wow. Then again I have lived in the desert in CA at 120 and Indiana and later Chicago at somewhere south of absolute zero in the winter… Much prefer southern VA. Speaking of Ice storms- we were in Florida when the one hit about eight years ago and shut down I-10 for 250 miles- after living in the midwest and hearing “this is one for the record books” I thought well looks like a Tuesday to me…[:D] sorry Kevin…
