Tuesday November 3, 2025 Sherwood Park

 

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Tuesday November 3, 2025

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.

Al

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Tile rummy

Brett and Dawn

Good rules

Cute cushion

So true

Becky and Brett

Arden carving the roast

Yum yum yum!

Digging in

Steve, Brett, Becky, Arden, Dawn, Piper, Bennit, Tripp

Acting goofy

Sunday November 1, 2026 Grrrrr

 

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Sunday November 1, 2026

Last Monday I ordered more stuff to take to Colombia from Temu, dog leashes, etc...

Tuesday, was a trip to the Library on the Gio while the weather was decent yet.

Upon my return, I stopped at my mechanic's place and described that my Regal's heater was not working, yet the car would move to overheat when only idling...  It had me mystified, and scared, but not the mechanic.  He said to bring it in and he would have a look.  Turns out that it was only low on antifreeze, which he topped up for free!  I love those honest guys!

The evening was spent enjoying Eggs Benny with my favourite cook, niece Dawn...

Wednesday, the snow threatened most of the day, then gave us a small layer.  And the Milwaukee Brewers won the World Series, as they should have!

Thursday, I spent the day working on more pics from my last trip to Colombia.  I am so thankful to have such good programs to works with.

Then, supper was amazing chicken fajitas with my favourite cook again!  And there were sweet leftovers for me to enjoy again Friday, on top of my salad...

Friday, I just hibernated. 

Saturday, I decided to do my own cooking, experimenting and succeeding nicely with a large pork tenderloin, joined with packaged scalloped potatoes....    And I ordered yet more stuff from Temu...

Today, I joined niece Dawn at her grandaughter Piper's soccer game in Sherwood Park again.  This one was much more exciting than last week's tilt, with some of these young opposing players actually showing good talent and smart play. Piper herself scored 2 goals from strong foul kicks from the center dot!!  They were lucky to win 5-4 as a result!

Today has heavy fog, and I came home with my fog lights blazing. 2 blocks from home, a "Sherriff" came behind me with lights flashing, nailing me for a rolling stop at a stop sign.  He took 10 minutes to come to my window, told me they have me on their dashcam, then took another good 10 minutes to write a ticket, all in view of my apartment building, embarrassing me even further.  And the ticket is a ridiculous $405 !!!!!!!

I am astounded and upset... This is the second BS ticket in several years from these wannabee policemen.  The location of the infraction shown on the ticket says 108 99 Avenue NW.....  Since there is no such location, so I just might fight it....  Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 

Tonight I will share my leftover tenderloin and scalloped potatoes with my favourite cook... 

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

Al

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Night cold rain

Morning snow accumulation

Yummy pork tenderloin

Crazy fog today

BS ticket!