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Issue #1109

Hi guys, how’s it gong…..

As promised, I am checking in with all of you to see if there is any interest in starting this letter back up. Actually, it would be more accurate to ask if you are interested in receiving it because we will start it back up for those who are. Let us know.

And, to say ‘starting it back up’ is not accurate either because I never actually stopped writing it. I just stopped sending it out over the summer. I kept on writing because it gives me a way of keeping track of what I’ve been up to and so on. Those ‘unpublished’ issues are all there on my web site. I think I’ve done some of my best writing and some of my worst writing in those issues because it didn’t matter and that’s how it goes. So, let us know if you’d like to receive this letter again starting next weekend, and perhaps start sending in your stories of the summer. For that matter, let us know it there is anyone else who is not on the mailing list but might like to be. Just keep in mind that some degree of involvement is a requirement, the only requirement.

Now for some other business…..

Sue and I had planned to do a road trip back to KW in September. There is unfinished family business that needs to be dealt with and a visit would be nice. However, we have scraped that idea as the forest fire situation here in BC has become a very big and bad problem. At this point in time the south west coastal area including Squamish is not in any danger BUT the few highways that lead out of this province heading east are closed or can be closed in the blink of an eye making a driving trip impossible. As well, all the motel rooms from here to central Alberta are full of evacuees and fire crews, hydro crews, and so on. On top of that, we need to stick around home in case the coastal situation goes down hill and we find ourselves having to be prepared. We’d need to be here in order to grab the necessary documents and items that would need to be kept safe. It’s not likely to come to that but we’d need to be here if it did. So, next weekend’s Squamidian will be published as planned.

Our next possible window to do a road trip back to KW would be at the end of September into October. Again, that would all depend on the fire situation. The fires may by then be under control, or not. The motels would probably still be full of evacuees which would be a problem because if no motel rooms are available at the end of a day’s drive heading east, we’d have to keep going and keep driving for several more hours until we were well out beyond Calgary and into central Alberta. But this is all speculation and we’ll have to evaluate it at that time so in a way this whole paragraph is a bit of a waist of time.

So, shall we fire-up (poor choice of word) the old Saturday morning email tradition and share our stories and adventures? We are looking forward hearing from you.

doug

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Have a good one.