if anyone asks if there are polar bears in my neck of the woods you can tell them , yes, there is one. this one at the yellowknife airport(it's a bit of a joke with the locals) although the best taxidermy display I think I've ever seen.

the bear spots his prey!, and makes his move!

the lucky seal lives for another day.

recieving an award from my boss

another award

It was a good trip. really good to see some folks that I only get to see every few years. Shout out to my boss josh and Lisa from ottawa you guys put on a great trip. everyone had a good time.

and to Cam Mason, ouch! I wouldn't want to see the bill for this shindig, but money well spent.

and frank, yeah I am indeed a very lucky dude!

well I'm off to yellowknife tomorrow and fort smith the day after that. Over the last couple of mornings at work I've been adding up all the hours I've worked in the ten years I've been with ATS. I have all the pay sheets since it switched over to ATS from the feds-so I counted them up...twenty two thousand three hundred eighty-eight hours as of today. I have more clocked hours than ANYONE else in the company...including the founder and owner, Cam Mason.
when he hired me he asked me how long i figured I'd stay with the company and I asked him how long you gonna be in business? he's still in business, an' im still there.

Coleman was scared of charlie brown in her mask

miranda won $130 for most imaginative costume at the bar,
hard to believe that she was the only facebook page there.

happy all hallows eve

I know it's a bit early but miranda and charlene made a jacko'lantern and I took this pic, they thot it looked cool so..here it is.

The appropriately named table mountain

View of the Mackenzie under a low stratus cieling

The Wrigley airport has a small office; but a nice view.

Image uploads are apparently disabled until later today, so, sorry frank I can't show you our winter wonderland. Work is busy. I have been tasked with opening one of our stations at Wrigley, it's been closed for several months. So I have to take Carl and Duane over to train and certify them to work there. Carl and I tried to go over on the 14th-in a blizzard. we didn't make it. It took us almost 6 hours to travel 78km and back. there was 12 to 16 inches of snow on the road. Duane and I went over on the 18th, we made it to Wrigley with only a bit of white knuckle driving. We got the airport open. There was no heat in the hotel. we had no choice but spend the night as the ferry stops running at 8pm. yesterday, still no heat in the hotel. I am too old for too much of that shit, so we came back home last night. Of course Duane put the company truck in the ditch just as we were ready to leave Wrigley, luckily I had my truck there and it was ez to yank him out. We got Duane trained and cert. so not a total loss. tomorrow Carl and I will go back(if they got the heat fixed) I'm sick right now too, so not having a lot of fun.
My boss told me the other day that my station(fort simpson) has won station of the year! Woo Hoo! we beat around 20 other airports for this honor. Ahh hell I'm gonna toot my own horn, I'm very good at what I do and it's not the first time the industry has taken notice. So they are flying me to fort smith next month to accept the award there, as ATS(the company I work for) will be having a to-do there celebrating mine and ATS's ten year anniversary. ten years, time, and airplanes, fly when yer having fun!

Oh my god! Has it really been that long? yup I'm the big three-oh! got my beard and have just started an Allman brothers tribute band!
we haven't been up to much the last little while, so no blog. i was gonna put one up for coleman's b-day but after Frank's joke me and miranda thot this was appropriate.