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That trip sounds fantastic!

I tried a number of N/A beers when I quit drinking a year ago. I still have some scotch with much more class than I when on a rare vacation. The Sober Carpenter has become my favorite.

Did a hike in the rain. I am apparently no smarter than a duck.

I helped out with some rookie training tonight. We do an additional night for new people to get them up to speed. This is my grandson on a 24 foot ladder.

I reversed engineered it from a picture of a very expensive one on the interwebs. They haven’t mastered it yet. I’m hopeing as they get bigger they can use it. I did do up full autocad plans and parts list for it though. Free to anyone interested in building one.

I think I am. Very much enjoy my work and activities after 40 years in industry. I’m able to ‘give back’ with what I do now.

I’m a semi-retired geezer on the edge of 68, not 17. I stay in shape and try to hit my target weight of 165 for many reasons. (Gone from 240 to 176 at this point. I recently retired from the front line after 34 years of fire fighting. I’m still around the firehall if needed. My grandson has recently joined up. His mom also…

After 34 years, I’ve retired from active service at my fire department. I’ve left it in the hands of this fine young firefighter, my grandson Tucker. I’m still in good shape and work out constantly, but I’ll be 68 in May. It’s time to hang up the spurs and let the younguns have at it.

My wife and I had two wonderful weeks in Jamaica at our favourite resort in January. Daily 5k run on the beach before breakfast, and a dive each day. Lots of quality beach time together.

The trolley is a kids book display unit I built for a friend. Their Librarian in their community was retiring, and this was a gift.

Beautiful home Wayne. Is that a lake or salt water?

It handles nice. It’s a Bear Mountain ‘Red Bird’. At 17’6” it’s a lot of boat for solo camping, but I like it a lot.

I’ve been busy

In the past six weeks, by myself, I tore off an old hemlock deck, replaced it with a new 12x19 deck and added a new one on the front of the house. I did skip my gym workouts while doing this. Lots of exercise.

Lot of inside cuts on the forms for one of the kayaks I’m working on. I used to do this the hard way by hand. Little ingenuity adapting the jigsaw to the router bench. Made an insert plate for the router recess, a couple cleats to hold the jigsaw, and now have a much easier cut process for these forms.

Called into the local RCMP detachment cells at 00:30. Home by 10:00. These short notice long shifts sure help with limiting calories in.

Last winter’s big project was the completion of my Bear River Redbird canoe. Had a few great trips in it this summer. I’ll be building two kayaks over this winter.

Just finished my latest boat, a Bear Mountain Redbird. It successfully escaped the basement workshop and is on the truck waiting for decent weather for it’s maiden voyage.

Hello old friends, I’m back. Many changes since Covid started last year. Two Jamaican vacations missed, job changes, Covid precautions with friends and family. I’m sure you all have had a tough time. I left my limo driving job when Covid hit mid March 2020. I’m 90% sure now I had contracted and survived it. I’d been the…

been working on several projects since I was last here. updates tomorrow.

Hi Mac. I'm back.

Nice post Wayne. Too true.

fantastic trips and photos

Oh yeah, very much so. We've been best of friends for 23 years now. Firefighting, scuba diving/body recovery, rock climbing/body recovery, (is there a common thread here?) and being there for each other through the $%^&*#@ this work visits upon you, but you don't want to take home. You are no stranger to this kind of…

My good friend Captain Kathy and I are out in heavy rain working multiple MVAs. Shh! She thinks she’s in charge!

Great news! Does your wife dive with you? If so, will this get her back in the water?

I took my grandson Tucker to his mountain bike clinic today, and while he was out with his group I did an hour of riding on the trails. Fantastic recreation site just 20 miles away.

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