Day 77: The Trailer Painters We made a quick trip to Sioux Lookout on Wednesday to be there for a memorial and laying to rest of the ashes of Zoya and Zane's Grandfather, Joseph Zinkiewicz. I was writing finals and wasn't able to make it to the funeral in the spring. I was truly honoured to be a part of this day, and to be there for my Wife and Stepchildren. We had very little time to spare while we were there and the three people we made time to see, were not at home. Uncle Art, my nephew Kyle, and Deb Roy... See you next time? A special thanks to Billy and Maria for opening up there beautiful home and letting us all spend the night, and especially for their wonderful hospitality. I would also like to thank Julia and Natalie for the great company and the lessons in Uno, Skip-bo, and of course Wii. It was great to spend time with you both! The photo for today is from on the way to Sioux. We stopped to see Kurtis and Jarod and when we pulled up they were getting ready to finish painting the newly refurbished utility trailer. Last year at a bomber game they were giving away, well... Bomber hats? Apparently they make great painting hats...

Day 77: Coffee with Jack and Arlene This morning Stacie and I got up and strolled down the hill to Jack and Arlene's for coffee. It was really great to sit and talk to them. So many names I hadn't heard for years. Some of them for decades! The one cup turned into three, or maybe even five? I know I had lot's of energy and took the short cut trail straight up the hill! The photo for today was taken late last night. I wanted to do some startrails being we were in some of the best dark skies around, but it was almost a full Moon. Doesn't work so well when the night sky has a Sun reflector beaming the daytime light from the other side of the world. I set this up on the dark side of the house and managed to get a few minutes in before it was all washed out by the Moon...

Day 78: Oops I've been a little lax on the stories that go with my photos lately. The craziness of summer will do that and like anything else, life gets in the way. I really like writing the stories the way I do and will do my best to get back on track with them. This weekend I am volunteering as a photographer for the MS Society of Canada for their "Biking to the Viking". It's a 160 km ride from Stonewall to Gimli and back. We lost a childhood friend to MS this year. You can read about it on Day 9 of this blog. I can see this being the first of many times I will be spending time for this cause in the future. The photo for today is actually from the other day. Two trucks collided on a stretch of highway west of Kenora. I would have taken a photo of the truck in the ditch on the other side of the road, but there really wasn't much to take a picture of. The bad news, three people taken to hospital. The good news, all three had NON life threatening injuries...