Sunday travel day. Hockey 🏒 day too.

                            6-1 

A little sore today as I woke, back just not as I'd like it, sitting last night at the Elton John performance got to me. Was a fun evening, with friends, dinner was great, the performance was good too, after he got the equipment to perform properly. Best part being with friends Don and Bev Lloyd, along with their family. Lyn and Andrew came too, made for a really good evening. 

I think the planters I was making yesterday helped me make my back sore too, standing too much. Sometimes I just don't have patience for my limitations, just wanna do what I want without having to adjust for my limitations. Thinking about it now, I'm freaking lucky I can do what I can do. 

Enough of the bitchin, today we travel to Courtenay for a fire 🔥 on the beach with friends there, or best friends are busy with their grandsons birthday 🎂, so they won't be there this time, but the rest we look forward to seeing. Not a long distance, but the travel we both look forward to, sometimes I miss the getting out on the road we have been used to with our trailer behind. 

This time will be travel in our friends van, as Rambo still not repaired, got to go to the transmission shop tomorrow, overdrive unit I'm told is the problem. Gotta get it right this time 👍🏻 not always sure what's making the noise. 

This morning the Olympic hockey 🏒 game is our start, thanks to Steve reminding me. Canada vs France. We really haven't watched much yet, but since I started watching the curling as my grandson was interested, got me seeing the big call by a swedish team calling the Canadian team cheater's. That's a huge deal, big story this morning I read. Who ever thought I'd be following curling. That's life, surprise around the corner, just never know. 

Today's hockey game I believe is determined, Canada will win, the game that really is a test is Canada vs USA. No Russian team's this round of the Olympics, I'm still in awe of this, a war that continues while we watch Olympics on TV. I shake my head as I can't really believe how odd our world is. We are so fortunate to be where we are, and enjoying all the benefits we have access to.

3-1 for Canada now, not a wipeout, Suzuki hits the post, Polly says "Ahh, ya heard that hey!" Polly plays her game on her tablet, and deal's out her play by play🏒🤣

4-1 now, yep going to be big score. Funny how we expect our team to win. Nice to have a really good team to cheer for. 

Well that's our plan today, will travel to Victoria on Wednesday, visit a friend there in hospital. Then next week to Chemainus for another Dr checkup. The life of a person who stays put now, I wonder if this will change? I was looking at trips to Thailand the other day, Polly got excited, I'm thinking we will wait till the fall, be our next big trip. Who knows where we'll end up? Kinda nice to have a surprise every once in awhile. 

Goalie is down now, new blade, amazing, just pop in a new blade, and back to goal tending. Things really have changed. 

Gotta get ready now, lucky us today, OMG, a penalty shot now 😯. He score's with his parents on camera watching. Celebrini, scores, now Crosby scores, yep going to be a wipeout. Crosby setting a record. 

Travel day, 

Sure do love our life ❤️ 

How's your morning?

   Made a clock this week, I do like Wood

I'm having a wonderful morning this morning, got a reel set to me last night by a friend that was of a comedian's act on stage, had me LoL first thing, so funny he was. Then during my first coffee I got a reel come up of Jonny Cash and Kris Kristopherson singing Sunday morning coming down. Was really good, I listened for most the song, then I just had to do a little research. 

I looked up where Kris Kristopherson was born, Brownsville, Texas, well that got me doing the searches. Kris was always a favorite of mine, yet I never looked at where he was from, or about his life. I learned that he is said the guy that changed Nashville, pre Kris and post Kris I read, WOW. 

I do like that I can just peck here and there on this phone/computer and get information so darn quickly. I remember the first time I went to an article on Texas, about the history. WOW, I was blown away how the highlighted blue writing would take me to another part of the history. I was deep into the history of Texas in minutes, of course it felt like minutes, looking back I'm not sure how long it took, but wow did I get an education. 

Well today I got a similar feeling, as when I started looking back at his career, I was thinking what a change up he did, from the jock military kinda guy to the artist as he seemed to always love. 

Ya just never know how things will go hey. Sill I love that I can research things early when I've not yet started to move about, my morning is early, and don't move too fast, but my finger on the phone sure does, along with my brain. 

I'm going to do a little more searching about Kris, got a couple movies I'll watch he made. I wonder if they will make a movie about him? He was quite a guy, sure do love his music. 

Just thought I had to write this down. 

Sure do love our life ❤️ 

Polly still sleeping 😴.

Sunday morning, game day for many!

This morning I woke to a conversation with my grandson in law about curling, he was watching Canada vs Sweden, I turned it on too, just to see what was up. I'm not a curling fan so much, but was interesting just the same. 

I scrolled through the News on my phone, while I drank my coffee ☕, hearing a loss for Canada, as the Swede's blocked heavily at the end for a win. What do I know? 

As I watched I kept scrolling through the news, Cuba came up with the crisis continuing there, with no fuel for most anything, although been like this awhile, getting worse as Venezuela was the steady supply, now that's gone. 

My thoughts went to the people, we did visit there once and the people we as we are, friendly happy, yet odd in that a well educated person would work at a tourist job, as their own profession wouldn't pay as much. Odd fo us to understand, yet their own society was Free education, free health care, but broke?! 

My thoughts went to the people, like us, with no way to change things. Then to that here we are flipping through channels, comfortable in our homes, while around the world still people slept on the floor, waking to continued poor life, with no way to change it. 

I hear as I watch hockey 🏒 now, Russia not allowed to participate in Olympics this year. Hmm, I wonder what the athletes are doing in Russia, how they are thinking. When you train to that level, and only one chance to go to the Olympics often, just imagine, again no control over what you're government does and how it effects you. Although in Russia I'm thinking the top athletes get treated good, as long as the athletes are able to compete. 

Sweden scores, France not happy. 

It's light out now, every day light a little earlier, love this, feeling of optimism with the more light early and later in our day's. Polly is up now, no frills on her radar today, gotta get the deals she read about yesterday. 

Life goes on, as I read on, now about the PPWC Union president about the plight of the 400 workers he represents, loosing their jobs this month. 

         Reflection is the hockey game 

Sweden is beating france 2-0 now, Cuban's woke to no bus to get to town, or home from town, and Ukraine, I can't really imagine. Every day I thank my lucky Stars! 

Canada plays at 12:10 Polly tells me now, I love how she thinks, priorities 😁🏒

Seahawks at the Superbowl later today be our game to watch. 

Love our life ❤️ 

Sunday morning, almost afternoon now.

Grandchildren talk today, our granddaughter Taylor, she's in Grande Prairie Alberta, miss her, but a video call does help. She's always gives a Snapchat, so often get some kind of message daily. Was really nice to chat with her. 

A message to our other granddaughter Shayla, was good, a message from my daughter Penny was nice this morning early too. Most every day we message. 

Polly talked with her sister Lyn, she mostly does every other day, they are very close. 

Later we talked with our good friends in Ontario, Mike & Linda, was really nice to catch up, as we haven't seen each other for a couple years now. 

A message with our good friends Americo & Claudette was nice too, always keeping in touch with them. 

So much good communication today, is a really good Sunday so far. 

Sun's out now, so we went for a drive out towards China Creek, I've been wanting to see where the fire was this past summer. WOW, was much different that I'd imagined. More small trees burned than I thought would be. Whole mountains burned up, what a shame it is.

 Power lines are replaced temporarily with lines buried on the edge of the road, poles to be replaced in the future, and lines rehung on them. I hear the power lines are what started the fire, a transformer blowing up. 

On our way back I turned down the Franklin River road, that led to the sawmill at the mouth of the river. Had a look around there, I'd never driven there before, just saw it from the water as we drove by in the boat for many years on our way to our cabin. Lots of hemlock being cut there, I thought filling the orders that the APD might have had before it was shut down. 

Change happens, sometimes like a fire, quick and extreme. Other times like our mills shutting down, that takes a little longer, but here we are almost no sawmills left in Port Alberni, just small mills, and our papermill. What a change, all I've seen in my lifetime. 

I wonder what's yet to come? 

Love our life changing life ❤️ 

Watching "A complete unknown"

Thinking of our transition's in somewhat recent history as I watch and think how has our society got to here after such thoughtful music of days gone by. Folk songs we were raised on, seem to be forgotten now. In the midst of this new world order as I've been hearing said, the lessons that the music brought seems to have not just faded, but has been covered over with the BS of this hmm, new Wave. 

Do we have to renew our way's every few generations? Is this what's happening now? It feels like the New is covering over the past lessons, like when a wall is plastered over, except when ya plaster a wall, you going for smooth, what I see is a mess, bumpy, craggy, looking, ruff, crack's all over. 

I just saw the door 🚪 of the apartment that Bob and his girlfriend lived in, was all full of crack's, as the show goes to the revolution in Cuba, along with the News about this event. Amazing we hear of this again, Cuba changing again. 

I'm thinking that as with fashion, and clothes changing, that our society is the same, out with the Old, in with the New! 

As I listen to him then Joan Biaz join in, sing "Blowing in the wind" the line I always pick up on is "Yes, and how many times must the cannonballs fly

Before they're forever banned?"

I'm not sure we have learned about this, as daily we see more bomb's fly, now with drone's, we, (the instigator of the action) are, further away from where the bombs hit than ever before. Actually I'm sure we have not learned this lesson, and looking at how the way things are going we may never learn. 

Bob Dylan is like a poet singing through his poems that tell a lesson each one. Too bad we the people of the world listen, yet continue to battle for what we consider the freedom we desire. Folk songs are great, yet the world seems to be headed for that smashing crashing of the heavy Rock, without the roll! 

Appropriately, the next song is "The time's they are a changing" yep they sure are, again and again. That's my lesson for today, for me, change is one thing that continues, regardless what I, or any of us  think it should be, could be, or wish it to be. 

Who decides the direction change will be? Hmm, I'm not privy to that information, mostly I think "whatever", as I can make my mind up what I believe moral, and others do the same. What comes we judge, but it'll come anyway, no matter our beliefs or thoughts. 

Deep thoughts today, as the rains pound down, changing our landscape I see from the news on my phone, flooding here and there, roads closed, community's cutoff, landslides, tree's falling, yep change is one thing we can count on. 

Good day to watch this movie for a second time, Polly says "Boy is it Ever Raining out there!" Yeppers a good day to stay in. 

Love our life ❤️ even with the rainy days 

Sunday morning calm here.

I woke this morning still a little tired, 5:20am, still a pretty good sleep. Thinking of our evening, dinner with friends was great. So much fun, meeting each other after many moons of time passed. Two couples we had visited with in the last couple months, but one couple we hadn't seen for awhile. 

Remembering the time's we had spent at Cluxewe camping in the late summer end of August early September we've had wonderful time's with these friends. We changed our travel plans a few years ago, so no September in Cluxewe, that made for much different times. The question came up last night, "Will you be going to Cluxewe this fall?" "I'm not sure" was my answer, as we have been going to Grande Prairie in the late summer early fall for the last few years, visiting our grandchildren there. 

I do think we would like to, but arranging this, I'm just not sure right now, Polly and I have to talk about it, how we'd still get our visit in with our grandkids and camp at Cluxewe too. Someone mentioned we could book a cabin there at that time,? Hmm, not the experience I'd be looking for, but hmm, a thought. 

That conversation disappeared quickly, as with 8 of us all shooting off thoughts during the evening, we had lots of catching up to do, and discovering more about each other during our evening. 

Dinner was great, Polly made a really good spaghetti sauce, and some had seconds, wine flowed well, and ceaser salad was great along with cheeseee garlic bread, such a wonderful dinner. Conversation slowed, but not too much, joke's were told, and funny stories, can't say enough about just how much fun the evening was. 

8 people, all from different walks of life getting together, as we would camping, without the smoke from the fire 🔥 this time. Fireplace was on, but with all the yak, we really didn't notice it too much. 

I didn't take any photos, but as I tried this morning to take a picture of the fireplace I realized photos won't save to my phone? Bugger, now got to figure this out? Oh well, just another bit of mystery to my day😆

Polly's up now, after 8, so time for me to get busy doin something. Off goes the fireplace, and up I get. 

Sure do love our Life ♥️ in one place 👍

Everybody wants to rule the world 🌎

Rule? 

Thinking about this line "Everybody wants to rule the world" as I listen to the music 🎶 singing this song Saturday afternoon, after reading about another person with his daughter being taken from their home to Texas for and held till March when a judge will hear their case. Wondering how that will go? 

Our prime minister is taking a lead in decisions to make sure Canada continues to move ahead, but in a different direction. I'm not sure if this will be our best bet, but I do believe that status quo is not going to be our future, change is happening whether we like it or not. 

I have read much lately that gives me thought of who's in charge? Who does rule the world? 🌎.  I know there are mighty superpowers that believe "might is right" another saying I've heard before, kinda like the bully in the playground. I never thought that was how our world would operate, I always believed that law and order was the way. These days I'm not so sure anymore. 

I've read about people quoting how people should behave, while people are breaking the rules of their own country, and people are breaking the rules of war! I really don't understand that there are rules of anything anymore, seems like people, many people are doing whatever they want now, rules don't apply, at least to them, as the expect others to operate within the rules. 

I'm quite confused, yet at the same time I'm also quite content with my life. Should I do something to change things? I'm not likely to do much, just watching and listening to what's going on! LoL now this song words are "Hey hey hey hey, What's going on" so appropriate. I think this radio station is following my mind 😂.

We have company for dinner tonight, friends we camped with 8 of us be here, that we would have not been able to do in our fifth wheel, at least not all at the same table. Will be a fun I'm sure. I listen as Polly gives the tour, our friends the first couple have arrived, our new home is giving us much pleasure. 

Fortunate us to have found this new to us home at this time in our lives ❤️ 

Sure do love our life ❤️