So long and I haven't posted

life is well in Ontario right now

so whats new man!!!

well i have been busy!!!

were into 2017 by a bit

i am so sorry to have left you in the dust my 2-3 followers that i have. I havent been that busy i just have other ways to blog such as tumblr which makes me wonder how the heck i have been able to stay here and makes me think i should leave this blog because i have more blog followers there than i do here. Im still thinking there are lots of viewers here but maybe more there? i really dont want to move this blog or close it.

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

2016 the year that was

January,
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.

why the long time?

it seems as if my living in ontario blog needs some updates. I am so sorry i haven't updated  lately, its either because im busy or not busy and i havent had alot of time or have forgotten.

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 

 

Miss her

sorry no updates...

i've been busy on other thugs and totally forgot about the blog and thought id update you all on whats been going on!!

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

Party of nearly 20 tonite

just finished a small party of a few people that had never met each other. People like jeff  and pam marks who hadnt met any of these people but then the ottawa side of the family were here to have a good time. they met my uncle and aunt from australia. They will mix and mingle tomorrow as well. quite alot of people here tonite, we have had more in the past but recently there hasnt been this many in the house…they just kept coming and coming…at first , annett came to help with clean up and to hang out. then the elliott’s from ottawa arrived followed by the wilsons and the germanns, then folowed by jeff and pam and then paul and cheryl arrived…it was interesting how the two arrived with each other like they did in the mid 80’s. Nowadays chreryl has 3 boys and lives in north vancouver, paul has two girls that live in southern california. 

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  

Throwback Thursday

To back in the day that the building was dug

2015: year in review

January-normal start to the year with tons of snow

Febuary- regular month with snow

March- concert with Neil diamond 

April- I start to get outside more and on my bday I get to go to a tragically hip show. Loved it

May- trip to Quebec City, enjoyed being there and stuff and the ride home 

June- Browns chicken dinner with Anne and Wally

July-volunteered to work the gates at July 1st celebrations in embryo and new lawn mower

August-went bowling/ aunt and uncle were out every other weekend

September-we close pool and contractors start destroying trees and buildings to put up new garage...

October- more hammering

November- trip to long beach dad and mom enjoyed the conference and I liked just hanging around..

December...xmas and now New Years

Happy new year...

if copy and paste doesnt work restart you computer

this will be short and sweet so dont look for something lomng for this....

earlier this am i was trying tio add ai arcraft to a list but it wouldnt paste only copy so i googled the issue and alot of forum posts have been made to it showing how to fix it and some said you have tio go into serveices and change something to clibbopard but its not here...so just do what i said at the top which is restart youre computer

thats all...

Was fun in Quebec City...

Had a really fun time in qc last week and now it is 7 days since we arrived home so was very fun

oh wow...been a while

it has been almost a year since i have posted on this blog. I just wanted to update all 2 or 3 of you that follow this what i'm up to for the last few months..

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.....

Year in review

January- nothing big

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

no blogs since may

i am so sorry for the delay in no posts since may 2014 but not much has been going on...at least with my life...had a great summer. went on a few good day trips and had lots of fun

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...

1. March-Collingwood
2. May-Vancouver
3. August-Orillia
4. Sept-Oct-Goderich

and more....

van city travels back in may

In may of this year we, mom and dad and i went to vancouver. We flew to clagary, we stayed there and ahd a tims coffe and stuff (i took out my camera and took a few photos of the gates outside woth westjet 737s taxiing along and then on to vancouver. During the taxi out to runway 34 i think there was an unusual a319 that not seen alot, it was the TCA a319 and it took off ahead of us at calgary and landed ahead of us at well you giessed it vancouver....and then we passed the air north 737-200 (havent seen those around for 8 yrs+)  Our plan was to go to whistler for the afternoon and maybe night. So we got the rental car (ford explorer or something) and drove north on the highway 99, and headed for whistler

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!!

Visting Van City Now

when we yook off at calgary i saw the a320 air canada trans canada airlines takeoff in front of us then when we landed in van city its right in freont of us...and parked at vancouver...out of the 8 00 main airports in canada it lands here

Another Year In ontario

well I guess another year has come and gone  and wrapped up, and a new year to do more things and get out more.

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!!!

Watching the  cfl finals, hamilton has won, still waiting for calgary to win

Moved some stuff into my sisters house

Go calgary

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