Rogers Pass – one of the snowiest places on earth!!!! Just east of Revelstoke, BC Canada. Close to the peaks of the Rocky Mountains. Upon my return to Canada from California in 2007, I was offered a job driving snowplow trucks for Parks Canada at Rogers Pass. I had not driven large vehicles since 1978 […]
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A gift of Time
Some say that the most precious commodity of all is time ….. However long we have on this planet, we know that the time is finite ……. we are all going to die at some point but we just don’t know when …… so to view the TIME we have in each of our lives […]
The Swastika was the emblem or logo of the German army or the Nazis ….. as their enemies preferred to call them. My Mom, Margaret (maiden name Tickner) grew up in south London, England during the German bombings of London. She emigrated from England in the final months of the war after meeting my Dad, […]
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Misunderstandings in language happen
So it goes something like this …… there was a huge snowstorm a-brewin and a snowplow was working clearing a runway in preparation for an incoming flight at the Cranboork BC International Airport. ….. a link follows from Wikipedia that tells the facts as we know them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Western_Airlines_Flight_314 …… but there are other versions of […]
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The Confessional, The Truth and The Lies
What is the truth? Seems like a simple enough question that might have a simple enough answer. But to a young boy trying to figure out how the world actually works it might take on a somewhat different light. Imagine that you are in the presence of the emissary of God himself (or herself or […]
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San Felipe, the tides and the Landcruiser
We were living in San Diego California at our home in Fallbrook CA Ryan, our son, was 3 or 4 years old. We had just started Visus Technology with the folks from Pittsburgh and we were feeling pretty good about the future. We decided to trade our Toyota Camry for a Land Cruiser and therein […]
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The Strange Tale of Tickney Tours
Sometime the strangest ideas actually come true!!! They can start, blossom and sometimes turn into stories like this one. This story was born in 1979 in Vancouver BC on one of those nights ….. good food ….. good wine ….. maybe a little cannabis. My wife Mona and I were partying with my sister Lynne, […]
My name: Joseph William Henry Harvey ….. I started going by Joseph recently because I like the sound of the word Joseph in French ….. the J is pronounced much softer in French than the hard “JAY” in English Ok …… so what is this story all about …… what’s the big deal! Imagine learning […]
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Facebook, Gmail, MSN
I started learning guitar in 2008-09. Very early I learned a couple of the easiest tunes to learn like House of the Rising Sun, Hallelujah and other tunes like those. It is interesting how some of the best songs use a few basic chords like …… G …… D ……. C !!!! One weekend my […]
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I met some people today
Leony and her friend Marie were sitting behind me under the umbrellas of the pub D’Orsay https://www.dorsayrestaurant.com/ under a Quebec City downpour ….. they were kind enough to share their umbrella …. with me! We connected in one of those Canadian kinda downpours ….. one minute SUNSHINE …. the next ….. RAIN!!!!! …… we were […]