We went down to willow river for the weekend. This time we didn't have any guests, and Miranda's mother and Robert weren't there either. So it was just the four of us down there. We took the kids out in the boat and had a visit from a pair of otters, usually I deal with

twin otters, today it was otter twins. we also saw a bear on the river bank. The weather was perfect although a little hot, it got up to 29c this afternoon. It was pretty hot yesterday too, so we filled up the kiddie pool and we all went in and sat down in it. Coleman fell asleep on the coffee table and miranda took a pic.

wet willow weekend

It rained from the moment we left to go down to willow river friday evening, until about an hour before we left to come home. We still had a lot of fun though. We took Quadzilla out to these sand dunes on the side of the road and had a blast. On Saturday morning I went out fishing by myself in the rain for a couple of hours. Miranda and her mom decided to fix up the tipi- it was leaking in a few places and the fire pit was not centered yada yada yada. Despite the rain, it was a good weekend. I made what is fast becoming a tradition, my big ass pot of chili on the fire. mmmm. Those matching shirts I got us say "Rum Runners" on them, and I wanted to write it on the sand dune, but we had it all carved up before i thought of it. So the kids wrote it out with woodchips, and called me over to see it and I thought it was cute.

well, that's all for now. we're going down to willow river again this weekend so probably have some pics next week.

weekends

Some pics from various weekends over the summer. Miranda reaches in to grab me by the pickerel. One of Miranda holding up one of my pickerel, and the good wife filleting one of my pickerel. I usually buy a mid-level quality fising rod and reel, right off the rack, knowing that I'm going to wear it out or wreck it. But this year I treated myself to a very nice Quantum tour edition precision tuned reel. It was awesome catching those nice pickerel on my kick ass rod and reel. And for sis, here's the Coolman and Charlie Brown and one of Beckers and Charlie Brown

modelling their matching t-shirts. I needed clean clothes when I was in yellowknife after my Medevac and release from the hospitol. So I was in Wal-Mart in a morphine daze and ended up buying each of us the same t-shirt.

What a day

well been awhile now, hmmm, let's see what's been going on. Well I turned forty-three, the truck is great. been going down to willowriver every weekend. And today I went on a six hour floatplane trip up into Nahanni National Park did a two hour hike there and saw Virginia Falls.
Spectacular doesn't even begin to describe it...twice as high as Niagara Falls. From there we flew to Little Doctor Lake and visited Nahanni Mountain Lodge. Ted Grant, owner/operator of Simpson Air also owns and operates the lodge there as well. The good folks at Simpson Air gave me the trip for free to say thanks for all my hard work at the airport over the years.
The funny thing, I took my camera. But forgot my battery in the charger at home. Well not that funny, i guess, if you wanted to see pics.