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

Friday night – ski bums

Busy week… Though I don’t feel like I accomplished that much. I’m very grateful for it becomes Friday.… My first meeting was not until almost 10 so Diane and I took advantage and took a quick ski around the West Bolton golf course. It was beautiful up there . West Bolton seems like it’s in hidden Valley… No people, no cars… Just lots and lots of snow

As we were driving back we ran into our friend Phil… He looked quite colorful and contrast to the snow

The day passed pretty slowly…

Around dinner time I took a break and we replaced all the glass Lobes on our ceiling fans so that they all match and I’ll fit the larger wirelessly controlled lights. In the process of doing that we found that one of the fans had a badly bent blade. The only explanation is some sort of kid based hijinks somewhere in the last 25 years.… I don’t know what the story was but it must’ve been pretty funny .… Better still we never heard of it… Going to see what I can learn from the kids

High Point of the evening was sharing a beer with our friends Tim and Priscilla.…

OK… Time for bed. More tomorrow

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Thursday night – Quiet day

Was a quiet day around here… Kept snowing which was nice. Dean and I got out for a short couple of laps around the front field on skis.… It wasn’t just quiet here… It was really interesting to watch and listen to the news.… It was strangely peaceful… I know we’re still facing a ton of challenges… Especially the pandemic… But it was really a completely different mood.… Not sure how long it’ll last but I’m enjoying it

Nite all, nite sam

-me