Tuesday night – Mental floss

I had a big day today… I got to go to the dentist!… Is days having any legitimate excuse to be out of the house and see people. Essex family dental is a great place for an outing… Everybody was already covered head to foot in personal protection equipment… It was super relaxing to sit down and get cleaned.… I hadn’t realized it but it had been over a year since I’ve been.… Another impact of the pandemic. As weird as it sounds, It was quite cathartic getting The last year scraped off of me.

Interesting end of the day… An old friend don whom I have barely spoken with in the last 40 years reached out to me. We just talked for a couple of hours and I’ve only begun to scratch the surface all the time and changes.… I like doing that sort of Mutual personal archaeology

Looking forward to our next conversation

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Monday night – old pics

Diane and I are taking on a big project. We’re trying to centralize and back up all of our photos and videos including the 35 mm pictures we have in boxes all over the house. We’ve got ourselves a good photo scanner and a whole lot of storage and we are currently uploading everything to google photos… So far so good. We’ve already got 125,000 pictures up there. Diane’s now the part about scanning the 35 mm ones… And she’s turning up some wonderful pictures. Some of these are so funny… Summer really bitter sweet.… I love them all

My 3 boys !

Chai baby !

Chocolate cake !

Liquid nitrogen and no goggles or gloves. Uh-oh

Nite all, nite Sam .. nice seeing you here

-me

Sunday night – fan mail

I called and bright day here. Stay in and I got out for a quick ski down the rivershore which was really beautiful. It was great being out in the sunshine and making a little bit of vitamin D

Basically puttered around the house today… Got some stuff done… But everything we wished. One thing that we did get results over the weekend was the “great fan mystery”… On Friday diane and I replaced all the groups in the ceiling fans because the old ones didn’t quite fit the new Wi-Fi controlled Lightbulbs We’re using . When I went to put on the first one I noticed that One of the fan blades was badly twisted.… The funny thing is the twist was not that a parent from the ground. You had to be looking at it from my level on a ladder as I was. One of The metal brackets that hold the wooden fan blades had  been twisted a good 20°.

It was such a mystery. Explain why the fan was wobbly.… But how could this have happened? Something would’ve had to hit it with a great deal of force. Our mind quickly went to some sort of kid driven accident 20 or more years ago but we never learned of. I put it out to the kids that we were trying to get to the bottom of the street Mistry and whatever had happened the statute of limitations had expired.…

Sure Enough yesterday we heard from GabÉ that there was an incident bringing down one of the foldable mattresses that we used for sleepovers down the stairs. Somehow it had managed to jump from the stairs to the fan. GabÉ didn’t think that it had caused any damage… It must’ve been 15 years ago-

He came clean… And it’s too late to ground him… So we all had a good laugh

Nice to have the Mystery solved !

Believe it or not I was actually able to find the exact bracket on eBay that someone must’ve taken off of an old fan. It’ll be fun replacing it and keeping the old one is the trophy

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

Saturday night – Convergence point

I think we can finally say it’s winter here.… It is between 10 and 12° all day. It was partially sunny and beautiful. Diane ‘Kyle and I decided to snowshoe bushwhack up Gleeson Brook off of Bamforth Ridge. We decided to go further than we’ve ever gone and we went about 5 miles in snow but it one point was about waist deep. We went up and down it’s pretty insane stuff… And crossed a couple of Rivers but we got to this point we called ” convergent point”… It’s the start of Gleason Brooke and it’s about 1800 feet up… It’s a beautiful Creek Valley really nice waterfalls when it’s not covered with snow.… It was absolutely beautiful

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Check out the ice in my beard…

I came home and promptly fell asleep in the bathtub

Now that’s a nice day!

Nite all, nite sam

-me