Canucks Rule!

Nuff said!

PJ & Claudia in Yellowstone!

Our Dutch friends are in Yellowstone taking some great photos! We met this adventurous couple in Mexico a couple of years ago and visited with them again in Yuma last winter. They retired very young and have been traveling the world taking photos ever since. You can check out their Dutch Duo Wildlife Photography website by clicking on the link. Their photography is wonderful! They are currently in Yellowstone photographing wildlife in the snow.

Game Four! Wow!

Well, the Canucks had their rest and they were back to playing hockey today! They tried to stay out of the penalty box but in the first period they were assessed four of them, only one that could be called a deserved. they managed to keep the Sharks out of their net through all four of them! Great penalty killing!

Then it was time for the Sharks to suffer at the hands of the referees but their penalty killing was just not up to Canuck standards! The Canucks scored on the first three penalties, all of which the Sharks were two men short. The game ended 4 - 2. Now they come back to Vancouver leading the series 3 - 1! One more win and we are in the Stanley Cup Finals!

Go Canucks!!!!!!

Game Three - You Can't Win Them All!

My Canucks were still full of Shark meat from Wednesday night so they took a night off to digest it. 4 - 3 was not a bad showing and will set things up nicely for Sunday noon. It will be nicer to win the series at home anyway!

It really would have sucked if the world did end. The Canucks get this close to the Stanley Cup and the world ends..... How fitting!

So Much For That!

It is after 6:00PM, May 21 in parts of Australia and no earthquakes, no rapture. Same old, same old! Who could have guessed?   ...... Back to the calculator Harold Camping. Maybe someone will give you a few more million $.

I’m Sure You All Want To Know

What is going to happen on Judgment Day (which in case you didn’t know, is tomorrow, May 21st). Otherwise known as “Rapture Day”. This is the day that 200,000 true believers will be swept up to heaven, while everybody else -- Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, atheists, agnostics, anyone who supports gay marriage or accepts evolution will be left here on earth with me to share the spoils. All the mansions, limos, gold bars and altar boys left behind by all those pious, holier than thou “dial 1-800-pray2me” christians will be up for grabs.

At precisely 6:00PM (your time zone) on May 21 there will be a huge earthquake and all “saved” christianists will be sucked up to heaven. Driverless cars and pilotless aircraft will be careening around as their drivers and pilots are sucked through their windshields to meet god.

Sounds crazy? Many people not only believe it but have spent their life savings on vans, buses and signs telling the rest of us all about it, whether we want to hear it or not. This date was “calculated” by Harold Camping, a 89 year old radio preacher who added up all the days since the birth or death of jesus, added the number of letters in his own name, subtracted the square root of the number of full moons since the earth was created a thousand years ago or whenever, decided that when the bible mentions a day, it actually means a thousand years and added one day just for the heck of it. This gave him May 21, 2011. Some people are cashing in on this idiocy. One enterprising group of atheists have started a company that for $400 (payable right now of course) will go into your house after you have been raptured and rescue your pets, flushing your goldfish down the toilet or whatever at $400 each.

Of course you can’t be “saved” until you are old enough to have sinned and can understand the concept so parents are making plans for what will happen to their heathen children after mom and dad are yanked up from the dinner table between “grace” and the spinach salad.

Fasten your seatbelts, only one more day of life as we know it left.

Or Just Maybe

May 21, 2011 will pass like every other day, including all the days previously predicted to be the end of the world. These dates include 1874, 1878, 1881, 1910, 1914, 1918, 1925, 1975, 1984 and 1994…. We all know what happened then…. NOTHING!

This sort of thing could really pi$$ me off! I am glad I am an Atheist.

BTW, if this Blog goes silent on May 21 it is because I have been raptured by mistake. Or I was in an airplane and my pilot was raptured.

Game Two - Same As Game One!

Our orcas are developing a taste for Shark meat!

It was a lopsided win for Vancouver after a very close first two periods. Our friend Les was up from Nanaimo to watch the game with me. He was trying to cheer for San Jose but did not get many chances. Too bad, Les!

He brought his motorhome up for me to help him with a couple of very minor repairs and the installation of a gismo that uses the solar panel to keep the engine battery from going dead when it is parked for extended periods. I had installed one in my rig a couple of years ago and still remembered how to do it. It was pretty easy but it involved crawling under the motorhome to run some wires from the engine compartment to the battery compartment. As I tried to slide under the truck I came up a little short because my stomach would not quite make it. We had to run the motorhome up on some blocks to make room for me and Les, to his credit, managed to keep his laughter under control!

We finished in time for Les to take us down to the dock for fish and chips before the game started. It was a nice day and we were able to sit outside to eat. This is probably the first day this year that we could have done this!

It is always more fun to watch the game with a friend. Specially when the Canucks win! The series now travels to San Jose where Vancouver has to win at least one of the two games. No problem! Life is good!

Washing Day and More Solar

I washed the motorhome today. There was an opening between rain showers so I went at it, taking advantage of the rain softened dirt and bug juice. It did not take that long and after it was clean we parked it in the RV spot beside the workshop and garden shed. The insurance expires in a couple of days so we put storage insurance on it as we do not anticipate using it this summer. If we do we can put temporary insurance on it for about $30 per day or just cancel the storage insurance and buy the regular kind. Except for a couple of coats of wax, I have no maintenance plans for it this summer.

We (I) came to the conclusion that I would like an additional solar panel on the roof but I would have to find a very good sale up here in Canada to equal the price I can get one for in the USA. I am no good at power management. It is on my wish list. Maybe if the Market picks up...

Game One - Canucks!

The Vancouver Canucks raised their game one level and won a heck of a contest! One down, three to go! Go Canucks!

Motorhome Repairs

The motorhome has an outside entertainment center consisting of a car radio/CD player, speakers, AC/DC power outlet and TV hookup. While we were in the USA the CD player quit functioning. I should have replaced the radio while we were in the States as they are much cheaper down there. I hesitated because I had never played with car radios before and was not sure what was involved or what tools I might need.

A couple of days ago I picked up a cheap Alpine brand radio at The Future Shop in Courtenay and talked to my friend Brian who knows pretty much everything to do with vehicles. I did not want to invest too much as this compartment has gotten wet a couple of times in driving rain to that side of the motorhome. That may be what killed the original unit.

With my renewed confidence I pulled the old radio out and cut the wiring harness connecting it to the RV. I spliced all the wires which was easy because there is evidently a standard for wire colours. Every radio made uses the same colours for speaker leads, etc. The new radio works perfectly as well as having a more powerful amplifier. It sounds great and we can once again have background music for our Mexican “Happy Hours”. I am now an expert in one more thing!

The hardest part of the job was working around the constant rain showers that have plagued us since we got home!