Souvenir Photo Studio, by Al Bourassa

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Tuesday November 10, 2026 Slow Prep

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Tuesday November 10, 2026

OMG, another week went by without a Blog!

Last Wednesday I worked hard on photos for upload again.

A tour on the Gios with Tracey was aborted because she forgot to charge up her unit.

So, Thursday we tried again and set a rendezvous a 1pm just north of me so we could connect to the bicycle paths for a new experience. It was cool, 4C, and I was early. Like usual, she was late, tried to change the rendezvous, then drove off in a huff. Some people just don't appreciate the sacrifices you do for their sake alone... Sheesh..

Friday, Cristina organized more earthquake repairs to our interior walls. Much repainting will be necessary.

I went to CIBC to collect my US Dollars for the trip south, and I wired more money for the repairs to Cristina.

Saturday, I was hoping to go to the Library to pick up more books but their "on Hold" books "in transit" from other branches has deteriorated to taking over a week! Grrr

My gal, Rachel Homan lost the GSOC curling title she held. Then the Edmonton Elks and the Edmonton Oilers were both winners in the evening. Thank the Lord for sports and books to keep occupied.

Sunday, I accepted delivery of my new wagon for dragging stuff around, like groceries, recycle items, etc. It will help a lot around here.

Monday, I was dog tired for some reason, up way to early with notice from Colombia of installing some waterproofing under our roof tiles at the front of the house. When we got heavy rain accompanied by big wind, rain got into our ceiling. We had to wait for some sunny weather to get this done. Hopefully that problem is solved again.

So, I got up and simply got busy,... doing a complete "toilette" including cutting my hair and all my nails, etc...

Then I worked on more Cuenca Kids pics for future upload. I could hardly keep my eyes open but then found the laundry room unexpectedly empty so I washed all my clothes and bedding.. My large supply of shorts and light t-shirts are ready to be packed to go south.

And the Oilers beat the Rangers 3-1... We have a very good goalie...

The Canadian Women's Hockey team is running roughshod over poor opposition so far at the World Championships. The real test will be against top teams like the USA..

Today, I saddled up on the Gio and went to the Libary because I was out of books to read.. I could only get 3 of the 4 that I already asked for the holds on. And later I requested 4 more to be put on hold... I honestly don't know how I am going to survive in Colombia again without books...

I spotted that the corner gas station finally dropped their price to $1.29/litre, so I gassed up the Regal in preparation for pulling the battery and parking the car soon. A full tank is best in such instances...

And I ran to the grocery store for potato salad to accompany the steaks I cooked tonight.

Hugs to everyone. In 3 weeks I will be in Andalucia, Colombia!!

I hope you enjoy the pictures. That was the day’s excitement.

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Nov 1 evening fog taken with the P1100

My new supply wagon

Canada is looking strong

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

Tuesday November 3, 2026 Sherwood Park

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Tuesday November 3, 2026

Dawn was making a family dinner at her one daughter's place in Sherwood Park today and I was flattered to be invited to join the family and take pictures.

As I drove into Sherwood Park, I saw a lovely pond full of Canada Geese lit up by the western sun. Imagine my shock as I then realized that the idiot driving forgot his camera at home....... What a dummy.... I was not about to embarrass myself by taking photos with my phone, so I had to turn around and drive all the way back home... Sheesh!! And the traffic was already much worse on the return trip.

So the Sherwood Park daughter had her significant other, plus her 2 children, and then we were later joined by another daughter visiting from Whitehorse, Yukon, with her significant other and one of her children. The two sisters had not seen each other for 4 years. So we were 9 people for an extravagant roast beef dinner that was simply amazing...

We played some tile rummy before the meal which caused a lot of rememberances of play with Mom, many moons ago.

The kids amused themselves with video games which meant absolutely zero to any of the older crowd.

They moved the large couch out of the way to take the few family photos in front of the large curtains. The photos below have been sharpened and cropped.

I excused myself to let the family have their time together and came home to watch the Oilers lose a game in overtime to the New Jersey Devils in the shootout... Grrr

Then I flipped to CNN with great interst to watch the Democrats deal the Orange Nutcase a deliberate slap in the head....

Hopefully, after January, we will see some better behaviour and rhetoric along with some criminal indictments happening against these corrupt politicians of every stripe!

I hope you enjoy the pictures. That was the day’s excitement.

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