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Issue #1104

Visit the kids for the day…..

We popped down to Maple Ridge to visit with the kids on Monday. They (Ryan) had decided to remove a wisteria shrub that was taking over his back yard and needed my truck to haul the cut-up-shrub away. So to that end I removed the box cover which is easy, and we headed down. Turned out he had only ‘started’ to dismantle the shrub and we ended up finishing the job. In all fairness, he had been out on the Adam’s tour for about 6 weeks straight and them ended up doing a down town Vancouver festival which required about 16 hr per day for a whole week so there’s that. Anyway, loaded up all his back yard waist and took it to the transfer station and the job was done, or so I thought. Sue kept working away at cleaning up his back yard and ended up with half a dozen or so big yard waste bags full of weeds and sticks and so on he used the truck to haul that load away as well.

I had brought along some ‘upgrades’ for his RE and once we had the yard work finished we installed the parts. That included the front fender rising kit, cleaning the relay switch connections and replacing the oem relays with better aftermarket units, and replacing the eom spark plug with a better unit. This is all the same thing’s I’ve done to my RE. I took his RE out for a short toot around his block. It feels and sounds and runs exactly like mine which is should because except for paint color, they are identical.

Then after supper we headed for home. I’ d wanted to get home before dark because my eyes just can’t see well enough in the dark for safe driving. We got home just before dark so it was a good day. Kyra was in a good mood, Olivia was being a spoiled brat. Nothing a good spanking wouldn’t take care of but we’re not aloud to do that kind of thing these days.

My poor blueberries and everything else…..

My blueberries should be almost over by now but instead they are just starting to ripen, or at least what there is of them. I have just picked my first handful and it’s past mid July. There are very few berries on some of the plants, none on the others. In fact, I’ll be lucky to just keep some of the plants alive this year. The year started out way too cold and wet for most blossoming plants to blossom and by the time they did it was already past when their fruit should be starting to ripen, and basically too late. The pollinating insects and bees were dealt a terrible blow by the cold that never stopped. Then, when it did, it went right into heat and drought. My plants are dying and we are not supposed to water anything because water has become a scarce commodity. I’ll cheat a bit and water once in a while in hopes of saving the blueberry patch but only time will tell.

BC is burning. Vast amounts of forest are blazing. Farm land is in ruin. Idiots are still starting camp fires and or throwing the smoking butts out their vehicle windows. We as a species keep proving over and over that we don’t deserver to survive. It’s that simple.

doug

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This series of ‘unpublished’ issues is my way of keeping track of what I’ve been up to during the summer when we are not sending out the normal Squamidian. No one knows about these issues but that’s ok. This also keeps the issue number in sync with the passing weeks.