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For the better part of 20 years I've been holding onto finding ways to talk to willow who I met in banff 20 years ago this year. I've done everything in my will to find her and get in contact with her but have lost countless banff friends because of it. I'm sorry for all the things she saw me do..

She made me feel like part of this world more than anyone has ever n my life...I live a dismal life I tell you..

So no more willow, no more celebrating her bday...or anything else of thar matter...

Have a good day 

2025 A year in Review

January, nothing new just skiing and doing the horses 

February-same thing,

March thru April and jnto may, recuperating from a skiing accident...fell into some trees at Chicopee in April or March 7th.. only my back was hurting from then on....healednup and got back to work and return to doing workouts in May with Leah my personal trainer!

In May we also took a trip to goderich to see a concert with some tribute singers of roy orbison and Neel diamond...

in May as well I was diagnosed with diabetes type 2. 

June-moee grass cutting and other stuff

July-same stuff

August- Traci got us tickets fir a Chris Hadfield and friends concert but thought it was in November but it was in August on som weekend coming up during August. We had a wonderful time at the show and it was good

September-went through the woods at tje embro conservation area and got lost and ended up where the new stream resurfacing area is and I walked through mud and my shoe got stuck..i wad able to retrieve it..

Entered our car in the car show at embro fair.

Participated in terry fox run in st marys for another year and had some beers at broken rail brewing and listened to Dave Sheplry (an old high school friend of mine) play music in the hot sun...ran into a few other friends there too

Entered the convertible in the thorndale fair parade..had the fair ambassador and junior ambassador in tje seat behind us...

October,

2024 a year in review

January-some.skiing but I can't remember what happened back then

February-more.skiing and can't remember what was big

March-more skiing  and Traci falls on the ski hill. Breaks her leg somehow...

April- shower breaks down...we get it repaired. Fridge goes on the fritz after a wild storm...-

May- we got a new fridge from home hardware delivered..

June-more relaxing and chilling

July- spent the first day of the month with traci and her boyfriend Jeff and Marlo at the  85th annual highland games...

Took care of neighbors dog.

August- was taken our to dinner at gillys in st marys. Pipe under the horses burst and we had some tractors break as well...

September- we are now still waiting for winter but we still have some projects to go....

2023 a year in review (draft)

January-too long ago and can't remember what happened.

February-more snowstorms and still winter.

March-more snow, horses taken care of but literally nothing much/big happened.

April-enjoyed my bday and the cake that went with it!!

May- snow finally melted and we flew out west to see theo...

June- summer began and wow was it hot

July- celebrated canada...more grass cutting and other stuff.

August- sister and I went to craigleith campground. It's one we see when we arrive e at the ski area of the same name. We met some awesome people and really enjoyed camping with each other...

September- went to happy hills campground on our bikes. 

Visited ottawa and the surrounding area on the weekend of the 15th. Actually drove there to see my dad's aunt or cousins 90th bday.

Òctober- Traci moved her stuff temporarily into ours until they move to near parry sound in a few weeks.

November and December to be updated at sometime before Xmas. 

2022 year in review

January-not much

February not much

March snow melted

April took a trip to the west for 12 days and even got to see the calgary flames play

May 21st had a derecho storm.hit and a branch fell over the road

June more sitting on the deck

July work began on the placing of padding stones in front of the pool door

August  some grass to plant...

September we finally planted the cedar trees we bought in July or so

October we went to a car show in browns corners near medina ontario.

November pool closed

Twisted my leg but now getting better

Update you later

2021 year in review

January not much

 February not much

 March not much 

 April celebrated my birthday and my dad's...

 may watched the Stanley cup playoffs and biked between the periods..my samsung s6 breaks 

 

june just another month..bike a few times..still trying to get my phone to run... my bike wheel goes flat and I take it in to totally spoked in Stratford to get it fixed we get a new liner for the pool...an 18 wheeler gets stuck

 July just another month.. 

 August just another month 

 September we take a walk a few days after Terry fox walk day in st Mary's 

 

October finally take my phone in to get fixed and bell sends a free phone through the mail. me and ny sister take a bike ride on the loop trail in st Mary's.. cannot remember date but was close to Thanksgiving. On Halloween we dress up to help with out old neighbor with trick or treating kids as sign guys 

 November so far so good...and will update you on what happens next later...

CYXU Spotters Guide

 Since No One is up to adding CYXU to a spotters guide i thought id actually do one myself. i suggested there should be on for CYXU on spottersguide.net but they recjected it!!

So...

At CYXU there are a few approved spots..

1. Crumlin Road next to the RCAF 427 Wing Building there is a small concrete road and a grass area before the fence, this is for watching planes coming into Runway 27/9. You can also get shots of planes from 15/33 but there's a fence and you need a longer length lens. There are ample places around here on old roads, anywhere will do...with no risk of being asked to move! 

2. Katana Kafe, inside here is great viewing spot of the landings on 15/33. There's an outside patio that allows you to hear the sound and rumble of whatever is taking off. Its located at Blair Blvd inside the Diamond Flight Center (shorter building). 

3. Creamery Rd, Down here is one of the best places to watch airplanes land and takeoff. Its quiet and spacious and can be quite active sometimes, but most its quite dead with activity. **** Mind you there are some farming landowners that need to use it with their tractors, and combines so please use caution whenever you are there.

4. On Rebecca/Evelyn Rd. This is a road that is accessed by using Robins Hill Road. its great for watching activity on runway 27. Dash 8s use this as much as possible, though snowbirds do use this from time to time as well as the average GA airplane.

And last, on Robins Hill Road, Forest City Golf Club Entrance Rd  as well as in the parking lot are great spots to watch aircraft like WestJet, Sunwing or whatever is arriving runway 15. My favorite spot to watch planes is here at Robins Hill Rd. Secondary is the Creamery Rd one.

Hope you enjoy

Brunos will be missed

When i first visited the west in 1988 or so we also visited Banff, and Bruno's was not there or wasn't on our list to visit here in Banff. But nearly a decade later in 1999 or so...we came to the west, to Banff and Bruno's was here. * there's a chance it might have been there in the 80s but i never remember hearing of it when i was younger.

Ever since I went out to banff in 2002/3 or so...i have considered it "my kind of bar" and its been a favorite for me. I do go to other bars and restaurants but if I'm looking for a place to go id go to Bruno's.

I once met rozalind McPhail at an open mic there. Didn't know she was semi - famous

Untill I searched her up. 

I enjoyed all the open mics, late night clubbing and l the workers like Gary Gongs will surely miss everyone that I met at brunos

its about time we made it mandatory for use of the helmet on toboggan/sled in town park hills...

 Everyone knows the risk at every local toboggan hill, most people worry only about the trees, posts, obstacles while most forget about flips, dips and flights..

Most people are bundled up and have all that prep before they ever have to hit the hills...toque, gloves, shirt, boots and all the fixings. One mistake they miss is "WEARING HELMETS"....its a vital mistake...

take a look at most videos of toboggan or sled fails and you'll see why helmets (primarily not bike helmets) ...

as in one local man (not oxford county) but close by..

On Saturday the 6h of Feb...

https://london.ctvnews.ca/road-to-recovery-wife-of-london-man-injured-on-toboggan-hill-speaks-1.5307325

so its kind of crazy as most don't think about it until its too late..

i think on toboggan hills they should make helmets mandatory and stop making bumps/jumps that are too high or steep...

my 2 cents that london is dealing with right now as we speek

Where my life began

Just the other day i was cleaning my old neighbors house of leaves and was only able to stare at it for a few moments and only get a photo of it after our crusades of cleanup had finished... this is where my life began, and all of my stories (ones ive told most of my family or freinds in the real world) ... but this is my old house in london ontario near st thomas aquinas catholic high scool and in the montclair avenue is.

i have alot more stories to tell but this may not be the place to do so..

i think it is time to notice this...and thanks for that lorreena mckennit!!

on this day in 2018 i was witness to a really amazing remembrance day speech commemorating the 100 years of armistice of WW1

i don't have the effort or need to worry about copying and pasting right now but here's a copy from the person 

click on her speech  

i am amazed at her audacity to mention some of these things but share this with as many people as you can..

thanks... 

2020 year in review

so here s the 2020 rundwn on the year... from an octobers POV

 

January- Covid 19 hits the world

Feb Lockdown starts

March- spring starts and lockdown in 6 week

April-First Quaritine/Lockdown Bday

May- Sitting on the deck

June- Swimming in pool

July Anothewr hot summer

August-  13th trip to elora..

September-more sunny days

Ocotber so far has been intersrting

 November- pretty quiet with above average temperature

cleaned my old neighbors lawn

Fw: 🎉 Happy 2 years with MapMyRide

Congrats to me!!

Thanks for being a part of the MapMyRide community for the past 2 years. Let's see what you accomplished.

Happy 2 years with MapMyRide

2 years ago today, you joined the MapMyRide community. Thanks for making us a part of your fitness journey.

Give yourself a pat on the back and look at all you've accomplished:

58 workouts
238 miles (383 km)
13118 calories

Congrats on making it this far! We can't wait to see what you accomplish in the next year.

speaking of google chrome, here are the extensions that i use each day

I bet you do wonder if I am using chrome extensions, I am! in fact, there are many that I use that can be beneficial to my daily online life...

here is a list of all the ones I use and after the list will tell you the pros and cons (but are not listed in order of use, value or anything just a list.. and are ones I can see while I'm on this browser)

1. Volume Master
2. Pinterest
3. Readaloud
4. AutoRefresh
5. Control time on the interent
6. Grammarly
7. Aitorefresh for twitter
8. Screenshot for Youtibe
9. post to tumblr
10. direct messenger for instagram

here's what each and every one of them do!

1. Volume Master allows you to lower or raise volume each browser tab...so that if a video is too quiet it will be able to raise the volume

2.Pinterest allows you to take pics you are looking at all over the web and save them to pinterest

3. readaloud is an extension that I can use to read me back a whole webpage, or website...however a con is that It defragments the page of twitter and never just reads what people says...

4.Autorefresh allows you to refresh any page you want...there is only a few speeds that many out there would want to use..

5."control time on the internet" is a timer to show how many minutes or hours you have been looking at certain pages or websites...

6. Gramarly is quite simple it just makes spelling errors go away

7. autorefresh for twitter  is an amazing extenion it allows you to instantly refresh any twitter pages without any trouble... but keep in mind you might accidently still be using "autorefrsh" like I mentioned above

 

8.screenshot for youtube is an extension for youtube that allows you to get a screenshot from a video without the srcolling bar or progress bar getting in the way... 

9. post to tumblr alows me to post anyrhing on my Tumblr

10. direct messages for instagram allows me to see my messages and other stuff while on browser

hope these help 

making chrome extensions easier to add to chrome...

but not without a few sightly snags to get there...

Go to themebeta.com and create a custom theme for chrome, (even works for WinVista chrome version) and once you are done, pack the file and download it to your computer somewhere...

one that's done, create a folder (of any name)  and a folder inside of it with special consideration to make the name with a special formula,  like this [2.1.0_1]  so use any number you like but it has to be the same each time and each folder you make of extensions doesn't necessarily have to always be a certain character set, like you may see in every other extensions folder it could be whatever you think of...

Think of the fact that each folder in C:->users->?->appdata->local........->chrome->default->Extensions that are default/fresh are all like miscued and look like someone just typed in a bunch of random letters... I kid you not that you "don't" have to keep the name of the folder format the same way!


 you could name the folder "moms petunia garden" and the subfolder contents inside would contain the theme files (usually a folder with images and a *.json file inside "moms petunia garden" as listed before), is a folder you must create that has some numbers instead of letters... I don't know (at this time if you don't use their regimented numbers system it may go to not work in chrome) {ill let you know}

to clarify it for you:

In the Extensions Folder part of the app data area of  the c drive, you would have the "moms petunia garden" folder, which if you wanted to could contain more than one theme that you create, so if there was no problem using just words for these folders then you could call each theme "summer and "winter" and whatever you call the theme  that you made at the website above...but if the lettering doesn't work... then try naming it "0.0.0_0" and each and every theme you make  in  the "moms petunia garden" folder would be named that way and then you can get on to the interesting part

*I'm using "moms petunia garden" as disambiguation to allow those to insert the name if whatever idea the themes they are making are about i.e "summer" "spring" "food"  "trucks" travel" etc...go have fun with creating these folders and ill let you know.

when you have several folders made or if you have made one and haven't been able to know what to do with zip/chrome file please listen up!!

If you got the file in downloads open it up and notice its just an image folder and a*.json file....move both the image file and the image folder as one inside the themes folders you created earlier for the ",oms pteumnia garden"  theme you are using...keep in mind you want to check images to see if you have copied it to the wrong one!!


from there go into chrome browser and open the extensions page "chrome://extensions/" and click on the developer mode and "load unpacked extension" and search for the folder and it should add the chrome theme!!

Done!!!

heres one i made from todays mikey mybryan video mar12/2020

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1N3tacjUgai3ZbbQtjbKcJIopw1r1C_sp

So if you have this issue (Android Only) on fitbit recently

So if anyone notices that recently Fitbit has given out a new app update but has nowhere near the idea on how to find out this centrifugal idea of either having no notifications or all of them but you get this annoying notification won't let you remove or swipe it away (like when taking screenshots of the lock screen!!) and it's bothering you here are some ideas to help you through it. Sorry for the length!

Begin:


It seems that Fitbit wants to mentally mess with us, you can either turn off the weird notification /sync page notification that stays on each day while on the lock screen or you can keep the notifications and get rid of the "keep alive widget" as mentioned above but it looks like you can't do both, which, in turn, bothers me because it would be good to have that as a separate setting in the section...

Android Only

For those who want to have notifications on and but turn off "keep-alive" (which allows communications and does the background syncing, albeit without syncing any new info or syncing very often). please follow the next few answers...



1.load up your today screen inside Fitbit app

2.scroll down on the area where it says "today" like you were refreshing/syncing

3.tap onto the name of your Fitbit device (ie ionic, charge, etc)

4.and scroll down to the bottom and turn on "keep alive widget"

5.ta -da! you've done it



but if you want to keep the "keep-alive" app off but get notifications and set allow notifications

1. turn off the "keep-alive" switch/button/slider

2. exit the Fitbit app

3.and load the settings app inside the phone (android)

3a.if you can't find the settings app, just look for a folder named apps on one of your pages

3b.tap the apps folder

3c.find the settings icon and tap on it

4.open apps and scroll down to find Fitbit

5.tap on "Fitbit"

6.scroll down to "app settings"

7.look for "notifications"

8.tap "notifications"

9.slide "on" the "allow notifications"

10. Voila!!



Keep in mind you cant have both set up at the same time...

I hope this helps and Keep Fit!

Year End Review

So it comes time to look back at the year that was 2019!!

January

-spent NYE and NYD at home and by the tv.

February

-nothing big

March

-snow began to melt 

April

-spent my bday at home

May

-sun coming back and starting to roll and cut grass

June

-21/22 1st trip to a new cottage that my sister's boyfriend's family had rented from June to thanksgiving... I fell in the lake/river and will tell you the story below

July 

-3 fishing trip to port bruce

12-14 helped set up and takedown for canterbury folk festival in Ingersoll Ontario0

20th or so we drive up to the cottage to visit for a night or two

August

-nothing big

September

-same old same old

October

-we drive up to the cottage to stay and try to pick up the kayaks, we have the holders but no straps so we plan to come back again after a few weeks

November

-In November I and my sister went back to the cottage to try to retrieve the kayaks, it was clear weather going up but not very clear coming down...
  

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So during the trip back to the cottage in June, we brought up some kayaks that my dad bought a few years ago!!

During the time after we arrived at the cottage, we sat out on the deck and drank some beer, where we also went and offloaded the kayaks, we also put them in the lake. We toured the area which I hadn't been to ever but my sister had been to a few times. On coming back to the cottage I was about to wave at a boater who was fishing and watching us at the same time and flipped over (was not wearing any dry suits or anything) and managed to float to the surface and find my sister wondering what happened to me.  We decided to float (with me holding the kayak I was in and my sister towing me) to a nearby dock and I was gonna get out and get right back into the kayak and we kayaked back to the cottage. When we came up onto shore I started wondering bout my wallet and phone but then it hit me, "OMFG am I so lucky!!, I left my phone and wallet in the cabin before I left for the kayak trip lol!!"

Later that night I was trying to dry my pants and shirt and sweater (which I was wearing at the time of the flip) and I couldn't get them any dryer so we waited till next day and dried them on the porch ledge, and left them for a few hours before we left later that same day!!

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That was the most interesting story I can leave you with