12/28/2017
2017: Year of Review
11/25/2017
8/04/2017
1/21/2017
were into 2017 by a bit
I started this blog back in 2004 or so. I left it unused and then in 2006 found a real name for it and called it livinginbanffnow.blogspot.com and used it as an active daily dose to talk about the town and then when i decided to move home id call it living in ontario now and its been like that since 2008 or so.
I dont think i am gonna close down my blog (this one most likely) ill just add that you can see more up to date blogs on tumblr. I think its darrenvox.tumblr.com and its got some great posts there and i stated that in the last half of 2015 or start of 2016 and i hoped to blog as much as possible
thanks for viewing this blog over the years, even if you followed. And what i miss so much about the blogging thing is the MEME's like the 20 things that are in youre room or where are you? and stuff
anyways ill talk to you all later
12/29/2016
2016 the year that was
Celebrating New Year's Day at home, extension fully built just inside that needs to be finished.
February, one of the last enjoyable Valentine's Day
March, mom dies of a heart attack, on the 21st or 22 of the month.
April, I celebrate my birthday without mom and get a few things I wanted
May, sunshiny days ahead, still think of mom but think of her in good light
June, another month of things that I know happened and cannot remember them
July, another month of hot heat and lots of photographs. I did a few things at this time of year but they don't stand out
August, a few events around here and there 4-5 months after mom has left us.
September
-arrival day for airshow and caught some really good pics of them
Golf tournament for BAMM
Rained out for first day of weekend airshow after being back.
Sunday me and dad go to watch airshow from nisoorri Rd
October
Thanksgiving
Haloween and pumpkin watching
November
Rememberance day at Stratford
December,
Very uneventful
Christmas
Then New Years is happening and we do this all again.
12/02/2016
why the long time?
Whats new you ask? not much. Im keeping busy and enjoying the end of the year, as we inch ckoser to the last day of the year. This year isnt gonna be the best for me, i lost my mother 9 months ago. Sure my days are better and happier but any thoughts or her or when i think of times when mom was there i cry.
What i just said isnt new or big, that happens to everyone whos lost someone, wether through an accident or a heart attack etc. Its all matters of the heart that when someone dies, sure you will cry and sure you will have good days after and the thing is youull never stop thinking of him/her in a sense like you and someone else over a loved one dying.
There are times though that catch me off guard, when i see a pic on a computer screen that shows mom and i doing something like hearing the news that i was gonna graduate, a few years ago, still makes me cry, thats not new, we all do. We just dont cry whole heartedly like we did the moment i heard the news.
So that in conclusion is whats going on here in ontario, theres no snow here yet and i dont know when it will come, last year it was 12 degrees and warm and we bbqd from the front deck as we listened to christmas songs, still then mom was with us that time!!
anyways theres an update for this blog
7/01/2016
5/17/2016
sorry no updates...
After my mom passed (i hope you have all heard that my mom passed away by now) and its been hard but not that hard.. i just had one of those days where it hits you again. I was on dads computer beacause i was flying on my computer...and while chatting on my tablet to someone i looked up and saw a photo of mom on some beach and i teared up...i still beilive that any day after someone dies its very sad but nearly 2 months into it, ive moved on but still have here in my thoughts once and a while...they'll never go away, but that's a good thing!!
Doing lots of grass cutting here and there, there are areas i cant get to because of mud and the old deck sitting there since last september or so... but i start now with the sold soccer field then move to the orchard and i then go do front yard and then i move to gangway and then im pretty well done. im noticing how the new cutter has such a wide berth to it compared to the orange and white mower we had. Those cutters were small and took a loger cutting time but this one is huge i inly need like 3 or 4 swaths to cut the soccerfiled etc!! (except for the orchard)
As of this moment im flying for delta in A319 from MTPP to KATL #FS2004
i havent updated where i have been on my flightsim blog so im going to that one shortly..
Take Care
Darren Elliott
Owner of this blog
4/09/2016
Party of nearly 20 tonite
so
anne and wally=2
gaye and scott=2
jeff and pam=2
ryan and jess=2
gord and sharon=2
gords wife and two kids=3
traci, dad and i=3
carolyn=1
=17 people…wow…thats alot of heads to feed!! we all had enough cake…was fun ill be seeing alot of them tomorrow
2/04/2016
12/31/2015
2015: year in review
7/15/2015
if copy and paste doesnt work restart you computer
5/24/2015
2/26/2015
oh wow...been a while
I've been going through a rough patch in my life. Trying to forget someone is kinda hard when you have to see things that remind you of this and that.
Im doing well otherwise. just had to clean my computer yesterday...i had finally made it to the 0bytes level and was able (using ccleaner and uninstallstilling programs like overwolf got me back to 1.something GB which is awesome...
I cant wait till the days of 20+ degrees in summer...just a few more weeks and then were at least something closer to having just a sweater or a t shirt...cant wait...
Pool still covered with at least 4 or 5 inches of snow so no swimming for anytime soon...just cant wait i said
forum is still seeing activity as for steve (kingsak) and angie and ashley and jusjt tonite troy came back for a couple of seconds. Hope to see him more often,..and angie is getting more members or trying to...
its been snowing alot here in the past few weeks and theres a ton of snow on the ground and every other day it snows again so were along way from those hot hot days of summer...
anyways if you want to join my forum its at darrenelliott.proboards.com
hope to see you there.....
12/31/2014
Year in review
feburary-nothing big
march- trip to collingwood airport and blue mountain
april 27-31 vancouver and whistler
May 1-3 vancouver watching planes land
june-nothing big
jusly-nothing big
august-nothing big
september- wedding at lake
october nothing
november
december not much
11/26/2014
no blogs since may
im starting to make a list of all the arports that ieve been to in the real world like collingwood in march and orrila in august
went to six mile lake in ontario had a great little time with my sister we fished and canoed and did alot of fun things...
then in sept or early october we went to goderich and saw the airport, had supper at the park house where nothing happened there in 1898 or whatever....had some reall nice food there as the sun went down.
all in all its been a "ive been there in flightsim but never in real life" kinda years...
- March-Collingwood
- May-Vancouver
- August-Orillia
- Sept-Oct-Goderich
8/10/2014
van city travels back in may
on the way there we almost got on the ferry and told the guy we got on the wrong eit and it took us to the ferry and we asked what we do in such instances and he said just take a right where the cars are and keep going to the gate...gate opens and we are back on highway to whistler...so after 3.5 hours on a plane and a 2.5 hours flight to vancouver wchich ould have flown right over my old neck of the woods. After sitting for a while and not eating much more than lot of coke and pretzels our stomachs needed some more sustanance so we stopped at a town called horsehoe bay and almost got lost trying to find the town so we asked some stranger how to get into the town. and she said turn around and go back to some street (we were off the highway at that point) and after we asked her for directions we asked if she was always from this area and she said ive been living here most of my life but i was born and raised in a small town called shakespeare ontario (my jaw nearly dropped)
so we went into the town of horshoe bay and went and watched the ferries leave and come back and everyone was feeling hingry so we went to this place called C Lovers and its a fish and chip spot. we ate some fish and then heaed to the car and kept driving...we stopped at a place called shannon falls. stopped for a few minutes and then kept going and didnt stop again for another 2.5 hours.
Arrived in veeestler (strong german accent needed for that word). drove to ski hill to see what it was like , mom and dad was there in like 1972 or somthing like that. But i t was cool. skiers still on the hill. then headed back to the hotel and signed in and looked at the room and mom and dad went down to get some liqour or wine etc...and i watched tv and wasnt really interested in going anywhere so i was a litte homesick and jetlagged so i sat down and watched some news...
net morning we had a plan to go to the ski hill and ride up chairlift for a tour of the ski lodge at the top, condiitons were favorable for skiing but not for walking up in jeans or ski pants and no hats or warm gloves (good thing that we had the cover of the charlift down...got to the top had some luch...
then headed back down the chairlift and back to the hotel...packed up and drove to our actual place or reason were here and got our bags out and walked to the room and then everything started to get amazing. Instead of getting all my stuff put away or unpacked was awatching all these planes fly over...
and then most of the week dad was away at his conference and i spent most of the days outside walking around the grounds and exploring while keeping my eyes into the sky for planes... i was watching the planes from the window, downstairs by the dragon and other places...had my radio and laptop and flightradar24. so i saw alot of alaska dh4, ACA a319's and md-11, etc etc...
lots of boats, lots of ducks and birds and plenty of chickien fingers at triple-os!!
at the casino i won 10 bucks but if you do the math it wasnt very much...put 5 in get 3 dollars back {2 out) put in a 10dollar bill and get 8 dollars (3 reall dollars)
I met a guy named randy who flies with this virtual buffalo airlines and met up with him at java jacks and we had some coffe i offered him to buy him some coffe but he said no thanks and bought me and him so tea....(i do have to pay him back sometime). he met my mom and dad and then we took some photos and he left and we left on saturday and headed back to calgary and drove to canmore and stayed with my bro.
went for walks around canmore and banff and then after the weekend was over we went to calgary airport and dropped the car off and since our flight didnt leave for a few hours we went into the molson brewhouse for lunch and watched some 737's and a319 (no wonder i fell in love with them)
and then we boarded for london and we came home and was different temperatures than it was in banff and all those days in van city...amen!!
next flight/trip to ottawa a few weeks ago!!
4/29/2014
Visting Van City Now
12/31/2013
Another Year In ontario
normally this time of year I do a blog on what I did the past year so without more ado\\\
January
~worked at cobble again for another season
~mom and dad to banff
February
~will come back to this
March
~cobble closes down forever!!
April
~spent my b-day at home and my uncle and aunt came here and had a luncheon
May
~
Mom and dad to Edmonton/Canmore/Banff
June
~
KW Airshow
Highland Games
July
~
From June to July I was outside chillig with my tablet.
August
~??
September
~JAM Open House
~went to bayfield for a da( may have also been in October
~outdoor farm show
October
~n/a
November
~ryan came back for a few days
~we had last minute thanksgiving with George, Jeff, Traci, Wally , Mom And Dad and I
December
Xmas with Traci and Jeff, Mom and Dad and I
Gifts.
I got
-SealLine Dry Bag
-Vamp 3 Effects Panel
-Headphones
-Snowshoes +Poles
-Gloves
I gave
Traci
-Car Visor Organiser
-Pajamas
-+ more
Dad
`USB Hub
- +More
Mom
-Pajamas
-Ipad Cover Slevee
-Tablet Gloves
So all in all it was a good year!!!
11/17/2013
10/12/2013
Bayfield or bust
Today we went to bayfield and walked along the water and bathed in the sun. Had supper at the albion restaurant..and then headed home
5/28/2013
From Crazy Larry in Banff
This trip is allowing FULL disclosure of the entire trip via LIVE Web Streaming /GPS LIVE tracking. F.B messages/emails/blog updates/LIVE Video Footage at SkateBoard Parks.
Live Video's/pictures will be made by the kids at SkateBoard Parks for souvenirs of their fun efforts encouraging them to stay away from choosing drugs,drinking and making a difference in society will be and 'can be' the Hallmark of their ways!
NOT just wishing they come in 1st, 2nd,3rd.
Talks that we all can have fun staying healthy will be highlighted with some FUN music.
Meetings with town/city mayors, Fire Chiefs-firemen and women, Principals of schools, teachers, Police, RCMP will allow help me to bridge the gaps of kids/youth connecting with adults that we trust so blindly. Trusting that they will do deeds and doings that are honourable, sound in principle and morally right, and at least for the betterment of our health.
Folks and friends ~ I need to get ELLEN Degeneres TV Show plain and simple.
ELLEN needs to understand how many lives will changed!
I need lots of people to explain to her that with some High Energy Announcing abilities/positive talks about beating Cancer/Keeping kids-youth updated with current knowledge that there is 'much' that they can do as individuals in a forever changing world and with my Custom-made SHURE Axient Announcing System with Custom-made designed Speakers I can impact them even more!!!
Time to harness some goodness and bring out the STAR the lies in each one of us!
Mom's illness will not go unnoticed.
The event name: Today I Ride for You will be for ALL to ride for someone they love,care for,or has past on.
We 'Can' do this;if we come together to help each other.
*** For more information on how you can help Crazy Larry's Today I Ride for You please email him at www.crazylarry.ca
While visiting please feel free to write in what your thoughts are of encouragement towards this paradigm shift about to take place that includes 'you' as individual friends.
Together 'we' make a difference.
Sincerely
Crazy Larry Melnik
Banff,Alberta
www.crazylarry.ca
5/13/2013
Summer plans...
Lots of swimming, book reading, and stereo playing
Books on the go now are
Who killed the avro arrow by chris gainor
And the wholy bible by god and jesus
5/07/2013
Another daily bible passage
1 Corinthians 4:20 () 20 For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power. #Bible http://mydailybible.org/dv/esv/2013-05-07.htm
4/27/2013
Long day and walk...
Today i participated in the louise pettre memorial walk in london ontario. It was a nice brisk walk through a small park in london. Got a chance to chat with freinds of mine i havent seen in a long time...
The event had a small bbq with pulled pork sandwiches then we walked back to the car and a friend of mine said, hey why dont you tie youre laces before you trip. And as i was tying my shoes i look down and theres a brick or metal sign that said in honour of linda tripp...what a co incedence...
Then we went to annettes place, and we had a nice long luch at her little apt in london....then came home
Played guitar outside for a while and now im inside nice and warm
4/18/2013
Corinthians
2 Corinthians 4:16 () 16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. #Bible http://mydailybible.org/dv/esv/2013-04-18.htm
3/22/2013
horooscope....
The warm sound of an old Fleetwood Mac song will fill your heart and send tears pouring down your face today -- too bad you'll be in line at the grocery store when it happens.
3/21/2013
Android app from reverbnation....
Will add it in the sidebar later
http://m.reverbnation.com/artist/41225/app/android
3/08/2013
from back in 2009
our crew....of course....
2. Cutest Kid you taught/helped to teach or saw on the hill....)
a little kid named parker, he was in the 4 week camps with Doug Ferguson. I have his picture if you want. he always had missing teeth because he's a hockey player
3. Did you teach anyone on your own?
Im not certified yet T, but I did have to sort of teach some kids the basics once and a while..
4. Coldest Day at Cobble was.......
any day in January, what about the warmest? c'mon t....
5. Number of times you said the word pizza this winter.......? (lol....)
4,000,000 ok sorry im exaggerating...more like 150...though sometimes on school group days I had to yell like 5 times
6. Number of hot chocolates you think you drank......
at least 50-60
7. What was your strategy for helping people who were scared on their skiis?.........
I didn’t have a strategy but I just stayed close to them and said it will be ok...
8. Last run you took at Cobblehills this season........
march 14th, fun day last time this season ive been on my short skis...I coulda taught how to snowblade this year...
2/12/2013
1/30/2013
1/02/2013
A quick and short overview of 2012
Usually i do a full year by year talk about things that happened in my life in 2012
February
8th-I Fall on the Ice. Sent to hospital and am released later in the afternoon. Thanks to the helmet which i dont have worry about replacing and it saved my head.
May
2nd to the 4th-spent in montreal during dads conference. Took our time getting there and took our time coming home.
Summer
More Airshows and i met mikey mcbrian at the CWH’s 40th Anniversary Airshow.
Fall
Just as simmilar to the summers and years before…
10/25/2012
the emails that got me famous on interrobang
She didnt mention who it was that was going to do the actual interview so i thought id email the writer directly because that may be who does it.
What building is the interrobang out of. I know its based on the FSU so it must be in the SUB building i guess.
this is what she posted on bettertheworld.com
"Hi Darren! This is Kristen from Better The World - thanks for supporting us! A reporter from the Fanshawe newspaper is going to do an article on Better The World and was hoping to speak to a Fanshawe student and get their opinion. Is there any chance you would be open to speaking with her? It would probably just be a quick phone call. If you are interested we would appreciate it! Thanks! Kristen"
Oct 07/09
maybe you know her or know what this is about...
Talk to you soon
Darren Elliott
ps can you pass this on to whoever was interested in knowing more about this, thank you
Have a nice day.
____________________________________________________
10/12/2012
should i have even moved to banff
I dont know why im on this long road that leads nowhere and i cant seem to get any closure from this i really want to know why she ignored me so then movidng on process wouldnt be so hard and i could actualy move on and find someone to fill that hole/
i really didnt want to end up hating her and wishing and in the end losing her but there we go again just pissing of another girl so that they will never want to see me agian. Isnt that great!! i feel as if im in a re-run of "cant hardly wait"
Por the previous post i can tell that she wants nothing to do with me anmore and thats great, even better but then i start thinking about her again and like ive said before its like im on some jeykll/hyde run and im not really liking it.
The key to fixing this is CLOSURE and when i will probably get it will be 2040 or so...
so im screwed till then!!!
5/15/2012
So how's this?
Darren Elliott
Jet Aircraft Museum
Volunteer/Member
jetaircraftmuseum.ca
3/24/2012
Thinking about this girl I met out west
3/14/2012
very warm outside
thats all!!
2/12/2012
2/10/2012
So I fell and almost broke my back
1/29/2012
It's been a weird winter...
Brought the iPad over to the hill so I can blog, chat and check things out...I'll test sendings photo to the blog later...
Enjoy
Darren Elliott
Jet Aircraft Museum
Volunteer/Member
jetaircraftmuseum.ca
1/17/2012
The month so far
1/09/2012
review of 2011
Jet Aircraft Museum
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12/28/2011
12/08/2011
not much new
Jet Aircraft Museum
Volunteer/Member
11/13/2011
back with buffalo virtual
anyways i cant sleep so im up posting this
10/23/2011
blogging again
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Volunteer/Member
9/27/2011
what other person..
Jet Aircraft Museum
Volunteer/Member
9/16/2011
Its Taken 3 years to make it to this
This photo posted below, taken in 2009 was supposed to be the arrival of two more t-33’s to london. This is where being with the jet aircraft museum began. As tomorrow begins a new day and we start up 346 for an official flight. All the work thats been done with these aircraft id like to thank all the guys in the Jet aircraft museum maintenance division of JAM a big thanks for all your work.
Most of all the big things that have happened at Jam was in the year 2009. Thats when 90% of the aircraft had been flown in. There were times of joy there were times of sadness. Before i took this photo i had been hanging aorund with these guys waiting for two aircraft to leave CPZ3 Mountainview, Ontario and fly to london, they had a short window of a few hours before the clouds moved in or soemthing and they tried and tried but the fix took longer than they thought and so we had to go or leave or whatever. I was finishing off my college degree at the time and the JAM building was where these guys are all standing. Every afternoon when i was done my classes id go to the airport and wouldnt be back untill after 8 or 9 pm as i watched katanas and cessnas and twin pipers.
In 2009 at the 1st Doors open i met the current (at the time)London Mayor, Anne Marie Decicco best. This was our official grand opening. I was there early with dad to help set up and to get things ready before dawning the reflective vest to go work the parking lot. I actually guided Mrs Best to where she should park. I would have thought shed have the biggest security force and haver her own bus or limo or other ways of transportation but she didnt and she came with her 1990’s Pontiac Grand Am type car. Anyways I also met the President of the CYXU Airport as he was there to cut the ribbon. Like i said it was the first offical grand opening and all the ones since then have been there to get more word out/referrals etc to other people that we are there.
We had a few aircraft visitors who came to have a burger and a break in their schedules. 3 Harvards from CHAA in tilsonburg flew in. We had a ryan navion piainted up like a luftwaffe FW-190 (C-FWOL). We also had two russian jets an L-39 #69 and an L-29. It was a fun day…
hope tomorrow is as better as that one was
8/30/2011
How #577 used to look like…very drab
8/08/2011
not so busy weekend.
this weekend we planned to have my aunt and uncle, their son's roomate or schoolmate from back in the day or something. and their kids to come to have an afternoon lunch of corn and chicken kabobs etc...
they both arrived here at about 2pm yesterday and was happily hanging out by the pool but it eventually turned into a small rainstorm. Usually when i start to see lighting or thunder i dont try to even think about going into a pool. but my neighbors kid decided to stop in on the way home from work and i said sure, lets go swimming (inside my mind i was saying no!!) but we ended up in the pool the whole time the storm was coming through, because there was no lightning. anyways other than that the weekend went off without a hitch. If you saw my post about maybe going to wallaceburg on the 13th, i probably am not going to go!!...its just too far just for 5 or so hours...so i am going to jump ahead of that and prepare to go to kitchener in two weeks for the airshow, the same weekend as the mopar fest....arrrgggg!!!
in september JAM has the open house and ill be possiblyt working in the beer tent as i have a smart serv certificate.
oh and i bought these incredibly awesome wireless speakers from the source (electronics store) for only $70!!! they werk wonderfully...anyways that my blog for august 8th 2011..
cheers and have fun!!
8/05/2011
wonder who this is?
Jet Aircraft Museum
Volunteer/Member
u2 dream again
7/25/2011
7/17/2011
one the busiest summers on my record
My other reason for posting is that some people at airshows can be brutaly not polite at all at most airshows. They just want to sit cloe by and dont care to knock people over to find the best seat, however on the saturday or sunday show a very nice family whith their young granson and father and grand father noticed i was trying to take shot of the aircraft flying or taxiing, and let me move right next to bob, um i have no idea what is last name is but hes with jam!! anyways as soon as they were gone for the day everybody moded up!!! and it was almost a fight to get the best spot...no one polit about it atg all...and i didt get their names but i will cherish their thoughfulness for years to come...
to that random family thank you!!
7/15/2011
im starting to understand why parents hate their sons for
7/07/2011
welcome to june.
6/29/2011
too much hot weather this week...
Ive volunteered at a few airshows so far. There are only 1 or 2 left in my agenda, one more in kitchener, brantfords not having it, nor is sarnia/windsor so theres a lot less airshows in SW ontario this year...
im testing how far the internet width is here see how far i can go on dads laptop computer. Im on the porch and its starting to get a little breezy.
anyways ill post some photos soon on here in the coming weeks
later
6/17/2011
Friday Fab Five
2. What upcoming book are you dying to read?: I don't have any
3. What series is a must read for you?:Artemis Fowl
4. What new author have you found so far in 2011? Eoin Colfer
5. What little known author are you a fan of?:Gordon Korman
Jet Aircraft Museum
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6/16/2011
where has the time gone
Jet Aircraft Museum
Volunteer/Member
5/25/2011
reflecting on banff
in the last few days ive been reminiscing about the days that i lived in banff. Seems that some of the things i put in the past are coming back into my day to day things. I dont spend every day in a starbucks but, i do see one every few days and it reminds me of someone. Someone i knew a bit and am thinking of alot these days, not like a "im really like you " thinking more of a "wondering that she is ok" kind of thinking.
I stand my ground on wanting to be with an airplane or to find someone else to talk to etc...
5/13/2011
fed up trying to get the drive mowers belt back on?
4/12/2011
wtf??
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4/09/2011
4/05/2011
sorry the long delay on updating
bought 2 sets of dvd's the other day one has four of the police acadamy movies and the other has the drama ones...like eraser,passenger 57 etc...been watching many of them on my computer
ttyl
3/27/2011
how closure should be...
3/15/2011
took mine out...
Abd then since i dont use the 4.5 floppy disks anymore i decided that im not sure i need it so it took it out and its sitting here...
anyone want it?? yet again no one seems to use the floppy...anyone remember the big floppy disks no ones used them anymore...
its just amazing how much its changed
1/21/2011
1/03/2011
12/31/2010
happy new year.
happy new year
12/24/2010
merry xmas
keep safe and have fun!!!
12/14/2010
2010 in review
December=31/ January 1st- went to mark langois's buck and doe, and then closer the the "hour " we went to cobble hills to hang with freinds drink and be merry
January-nothing big
Febuary-Olymipic Week @Cobble. I entered a snow volleyball comptetiton and won a pair of mp3 sunglasses, and a box of mike and ikes. My team of allan brander, matt and me. We won by default.The team we were supposed to play left the hill. Good times.
March-nothing big
April-birthday
21st-went with fundraisig team at JAM to Air Combat Zone. Meeting was nice talked about all the cool plans and then went to the sim room. i was d-man, derek was cardinal, paul was ??? and dave was maverick. Someone shot me down, but....but...i shot someone else while falling down to the ground.
May-3rd, mom in an accident on the way home from the doctor, was rushed to local hospital and put inder a medical coma of sorts.
19th Traci flew to the west to get her car and drive home. The plan was for me to meet her in winnipeg and continue to ontario. I landed in winnipeg 21st or something.She didnt even have time to park at the entrance before i hopped into the car and we were on our way. We stopped overnight in kenora, then continued to dryden where we had planned the night before to go see a friends parents place and they werent home so we took some pictures isntead...
We continued to drive past shale rocks and trees almost like a cartoon uses the same background in animations or cartoons. Untill ta-da the lakes started showing up. We continued all the way through northern ontario and i drove a bit.The night before, we planned out where we were going to stop over and we thought wed go from kenora to wawa, stay over and then try to continue on from there. But it got late and i we saw a travelodge at the side of the road and we were both yawning alot, so we said its about time to stop.and so we did. That night we opened the map and made a plan so that we knew what we were doing the next day. We did quite a good job of planning becuse we drove all the way home in one day from marathon, mind you we stopped a million times to take in the view. What a beautiful place northern ontario is. We also stopped a long time at the most beautiful place on the border of northern and southern ontatio Perry Sound is beautiful town/city and we stopped for a photo opp, supper and some particualrily famous ice cream at the floatplane base...
This is about the time the signs start showing the 400 series freeways on them instead of the normal highway one. We are coming into an area of ontario ive seen before, as its not like what i had been driving in before i got to that point. Id never been in northern ontaaaaario. And then my cool and i know what im doing ego comes in as i had started to remeber a secret way home we used to drive to skii hills near arthur and had not driven this route in ages. We managed to make it home before sunrise the next day!! The END
June-weekly visits from mom and the NRC team. It was good to see mom home as ahe had be aching to get home and back to her chores.
July-Uncle david visit. July-13-27. Introduced him to my pilot friend Turbo at the JAM open house. A suprize vist by a crew of a c-130 from trenton or somewhere and dave got to chatting with them.
Also went to a car show and a movie with him.
August- lots of swimming, grass cutting
September-more grass and swimming. etc etc..
joined buffalo airways virtual.
October-flew in the haloween flight for buffalo airways virtual and more grass cutting. Ryan and jess flew home for thanksgiving. As well a the auzzie's and the torontonian stratfordite relllys visited.
Movember-snow falling, flew in the rememberance day flight
December-so far so good!!
Happy Holidays and Have a Happy and Safe New Yea
12/08/2010
12/06/2010
Mark Dailey passes away
Toronto will miss you mark.
its december
11/02/2010
9/25/2010
webcam not working...
9/08/2010
7/30/2010
'should be a law against having a gps on your dashboard
hows life
7/18/2010
where have i been??
this is the 1st time it has been so busy in july and i dont know what day it is anymore half the time...im getting active and having fun!!
nothing big to report of...
peace!!
later
7/06/2010
bike signals need to be changed
you also gotta know that alot of divers dont know or remember the bike signals nor can they figure them out when you drive...maybe they should change them to allow both bike and car dirver to understand which way they are going..
sorry for not posting lately
6/12/2010
5/16/2010
does it make any sence to anyone else
Then 2 weeks later she arrived back in banff from her time home in ontario and we went from that to not a single word from her or I. I figured it would be just a few days or so then shed be talking to me again. Nope. In a nutshell, we never discussed that i was leaving to move home to where i am today. Not one word from either of us!!
I often wonder when i sit here and listen to itunes songs and think that maybe i did/said/knew/heard something she didnt or said something rude or...you know....i just dont know...even though im not focusing on the past i just wonder if the freindfshop with her could have continuted. All this was was a friendship, nothing more. Aand even at that she ignored me for some reason...and to this day i dont know why...not one idea!! If it was me then she could have told me what i did/said that make her ignore me and guess what i would have made a change so that it didnt happen again...but since i dont know what caused it im all on my own at this point...
and thats just it...al this little post was about...just what the heck made her go silent...
my thought on what happened in ontario
1)she got married
2)she got in a car crash and couldnt remeber me
3)she was ignoring me because maybe.....you see i just dont know (as well)
someting big happened in ontario because it literaly happened overnight and she was a changed person for sure when she walked back in through the door...
*i have left the name of the person as annonymous as i fear the name getting out and she could get stalked..
but i just dont get it...it just doesnt add up...
anyone in the same boat...
4/11/2010
4/06/2010
similarities
If i was alive when he was i would believe in what he was doing and that he wasnt what everyone else thought of him at the time that it was all a joke...
4/01/2010
a common misconception
does everyone take this for granted or am i the only one??
3/25/2010
changing blog name...
i am...within the next few weeks going to be changing the name from living in banff now to living in ontario now...and ill need to change a few thingd around...
anyone disagree with this...any ideas on a better name...
3/24/2010
blogging again...
im hoping to find a version of PAI that updates united, delta and air canada that shows them flying to CYXU!!
3/11/2010
addicted to farmville
so go farmville!!!
3/05/2010
yesterdays horoscope on facebook
hits really close to home because thats what i felt like yesterday
2/26/2010
the amzing world of aviation
I see plane pictures of planes on their last lease on life and ones just starting out on life and those in between. Its sometimes sad to see old planes you saw flying around you getting ready to be scrapped and you know you cant do anything to stop them from torching them to bare metal...
i always find funny pictures to look at and laugh or cry or whatever....its a fun thing to do...
anyways have a good day...
2/16/2010
best 737-700 liveries
2/14/2010
june 1996...world record
anyways i want to try to re create this in flight sim though i dont know how i will do that realistically...
heres a pic of the train i found online...this came from london ontario...i might be riding this someday when i go to dublin.
http://www.railpictures.net/images/d1/2/1/1/2211.1193486400.jpg
2/01/2010
computer needs to go back into store to be reformatted...
the folders i need to be copied are "My Documents" "Microsoft Games" I have all the games but id be lost without all the planes i have added to my flightsim, Then i want to try to see if i can copy the PAI files on my desktop (the files are only like 1.5MB but id have to find them again) then wipe the computer and reinstall windows xp....so i hope to be flying on my computer by the first of march.
i dont think copying all the files are going to take that long but i might have to wait as other computers are getting fixed...we just brought it home to take it out of their shelf so they wouldnt have to deal with it again so im expecting 2 or 3 days...should only take that long to to wait for other computers thatg are in the que to get fixed...
other than that....thats alll thats new...oh ya the flames won again!!! go flames!!
1/24/2010
just breaks my heart
1/22/2010
hi guys...anyone reading...
computers still in the shop...problems with the capacitors
1/11/2010
1/05/2010
flightsim
Xfire now has a way to play games and listen to music so im listening to some u2 and stuff...
thats all for now...









