Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Thor Motorhome, Canadian Election, Retina specialists

It’s a sunny blue sky day with pink cherry blossoms petals littering the ground.  Lovely Burnaby spring.
Carney, the WEF, UN, CCP candidate has won the Canadian election for another liberal term continuing policies he and Trudeau began.  I feel betrayed by my countryman.  After Trudeau’s corruption and scandals and deceit it’s hard to believe anyone could vote for more. But people were attracted to the new face and the appearance of fiscal responsibility in a banker who unfortunately believes in unscientific net zero and the whole communist idealism thing with liberal elites benefitting most while the middle class is savage.
Marx said there was rich and poor. The Scottish socialists by contrast envision the middle class.  The middle class of which I’m apart are being skewered by taxes while the elite, white collar welfare, and the welfare class (blue collar welfare) 
The elections as a deep disappointment and it has caused me to doubt the veracity of the election machine. The communist Chinese computers can breach election machines as easily as they breach CRA firewalls . Trudeau allowed interference in the last election if not encouraging it. It’s been exposed and propaganda agents like the CBC admittedly 80% liberal don’t seem to care. The election is already rigged to eastern Canada with Montreal and Toronto making all the decisions.  I fear worse tyranny.  The immigrants especially the illegal immigrants were scab voters. It doesn’t matter how much is exposed like Chinese students voting, the government winning isn’t concerned.  I’m just very disheartened. They say you can vote yourself into communism but you have to fight yourself out.  Carney has as much said he’d rather an alliance with China than with Trump and that certainly doesn’t forebode well for peace.  WWWiii seems closer but one day at a time. Doom zooming is the problem in politics and Carney got in with that messaging.  Poilevre’s message of prosperity and freedom didn’t fly in Canada. Makes me wonder if I’m safe here.  
Meanwhile the great news is that I traded in my Fuzion Fifth Wheel toy hauler for this Thor Hurricane Class A Motorhome from Traveland. 2022 and 20, 000 km.  The bank took the outstanding mortgage on the RV and rolled it into a new load which is good but it’s higher interests.  One of the reasons I didn’t like the liberals.  High costs, high taxes, inflation and shortage of health care resources and little pension.  Yet here i am now in a wonderful moving home.  I’m truly delighted with my new accommodation and was excited to drive it home .
I liked Laura being with me and seeing the motorcyclists pass us asked if she missed the years she rode on the back of my Harley and we stayed in pup tents. “No she said, I like that then but I love this now.”  They call it ‘glamming’.   I wanted it for my snow birding winter trip south but we’re looking forward to going up the Whistler RV park in the summer. 
We had a lovely weekend at Harrison Hotsprings and now with this motorhome will be able to go there as we did with the camper and truck.
I really didn’t want to be transferring my home and storing so I could use the camper and truck. Now I have everything I need here. For now I’m keeping the Truck and Camper for camping, hunting and fishing but am also considering trading in my mini for a little Ford Maverick truck. The Mini Cooper can’t be hauled behind a motorhome without a trailer while a little truck can and I can also take the Vespa or Harley in the back of the truck.  
Right now I’m continuing to enjoy the Vespa, lighter and easier in the city.  My Harley Nightster Special is in storage but I’m missing it.
I had my appointment with Dr Bryon McKay, the retinal ophthalmologists. He’s as a very impressive young doctor like Dr. Rob Pintwala, the ophthalmologist,  who referred me. I’m got milde cataracts and stage 2 dry macular degeneration.  Just as Dr. Pintwala said I i should be able to ride a motorcycle for the next 10 years. I was being optimistic and thinking positively when I committed to the new motorhome.  I have a follow up apt in November and hopefully there won’t be progression but eve nit there was need for surgery it wouldn’t be till next year.
Another reason I want the country and politics to improve so that I’ll continue to be able to see. I’m feeling dependent on my fellow man . Though I’ve always been I’m with age more aware of my sense of dependence.  
I’m working and the office, the passenger seat of the motor home with the desk accessory is calling.  
Madigan has been a terrific guy now. When Laura is here he’s in lust mode and acts like a sex crazed adolescent.  He loves her and we have a wonderful time together but he certainly isn’t well behaved around her but settles when she leave.  He’s aging and each time it’s better.  So many changes for the little guy.  I really like his company.  
I’ve called this letting go time the ‘potlach’ because I purge so much to reduce my excess to the smaller cargo space of this motorhome.  Still too much went to storage. I was glad to give a whole lot away and thankfull for the help of Alina and Ileana from Merry Maids and Anna and Kevin Bustard.  Laura has been great.  Ironically we first were intimate over 25 years ago after we packed up an office and loaded my sailboat for my offshore sail to Hawaii solo in winter and the work in Saipan.  25 years ago. I have been blessed. Gifts of sobriety. Gifts of God.
Thank you Jesus.




















  

















Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Fifth Wheel to Class A Motorhome

It’s exciting I can say that. I signed the papers on the Thor Hurricane 29 m at Traveland.  Then the whirlwind began. I have been two weekends and evenings purging my home. Friends have benefitted most when I found I had two or three of things Like battery chargers and grinders. I’ve taken a half dozen green garbage bags to the Diabetes Bin for clothing. I’ve thrown out as much and have plastic boxes and bags lying about waiting for this Saturday when I empty this RV into the smaller motorhome.  
Meanwhile I’m waiting for an eye appointment to confirm I’ll have sight the next ten years at least and perhaps book surgery. I decided to be optimistic and proactive, buying the motorhome before I had confirmation my sight would last. It’s that time of year in life when each decision is weighed against potential life and as importantly well being. Only a couple of years ago I thought I’d not be able to hunt much more because of the Edinburgh fall, the back pain and weakness. This year I have far more stamina though persisting chronic pain.  I say that it’s anger turned inward or that which I can say in no other way. It wakes me when I turn over at night.  I plan within limits. I don’t believe I have a n endless reserves of energy and immortality.
Kenny Rogers, the salesman at Traveland who told me of his east coast experiences of Atlanti hurricanes when we talked sailing and adventure,”There are rules with motorhomes. No more than three hours without a break and plan for the night at three pm”.  I appreciated the cautionary tale having motorcycled across the country in three hours stretches and mostly finishing the day before dark and the deer on the road night concerns.  
Driving the big ‘bus’ was challenging the first time. I really was uncertain if I could do it despite Peter and Ernest cheering me on. Kenny Roger’s was so kind in guiding me. I was able to do a circle in the parking lot and see that I had the ability to do a tight turn. It wasn’t hard as long as I didn’t think of the length. The cameras were a godsend.  I did it and now am continuing on with the trade.  
I have money in the bank and a trade in and Ryan the finance fellow has been setting up the sale. It turns out that finacncing is better than cashing in mutual funds as the government vultures half the savings especially the present government caught up in monstrous scandals such to give even politicians a bad name.  
Trudeau the leader resigned in shame and ignomy to be replaced by Mark Carney a banker and board member of the WEF and friend of the Communist Chinese. I voted in the advance elections from Pierre Poilevre for PM.  That’s been a major Canadian issue with Elon Musk manning DOGE for Trump and the Republicans in the states. The graft corruption and theft of money being found and all the criminal enterprises in the US seem likely to be worse in Canada especially as Trudeau wouldn’t even address infiltration of the government by Commusti Chines,e Cartels and Mafria.  
I’m continuing to work and most of my patients are feeling the loss of government mismanagement of money. Pensions and inflations. I’m just downsizing and hoping for the future.  I’m working long past the oldest in my family and long past the age of retirement. Fortunately I like my work and feel privileged to serve but the whole administration and government issue is as appalling ast the ‘friendly fire’ of war.  
Now Laura is up. She slept with Madigan chaperoning us. When he’s not trying to lie on one our heads he’s wedged between us.  It’s cozy.  L
It’s cherry blossom season and quite beautiful with the glorious sunshine and blue skies of spring.  
I am blessed.
Laura and I were at St. Barnabas Anglican for Easter Sunday church.  There was a baptism.  Madigan was disruptive so I spent most of the service at the back with him.  Otherwise he’d be whining to be let up on Laura or my lap. When there are two of us he’s a brat. Alone with me he’s manageable .  He really is excited by family.  His girlfriend Bella and her sister Luka have been here with Peter and Larry. Peter and I have been walking the dogs while Peter advises me of important aspects of motorhome ownership. They have the Tiffin Allegra. 
Ernest and Nicolina who’s Thor I saw and fell in love with have been about too.  They were happy to take my expedition boat I’d had stored on the side of the RV.  Dave came to the rescue and sorted out the under RV garage.  I’d had doubles of come along and air compressors and so much more. I told him I only needed one for the new Motorhome. As Dave has an RV himself I could trust him to know what tools I’d need.  
I feel like it’s a west coast Potlach in some ways , this purge. I feel lighter and was amazed at how many doubles of things I had accumulated over the years.  Not unreasonably. I had a yacht and camper and RV and remnants of houses. I found 4 coffee bean grinders stashed here and there.  Camping, hunting and fishing gear kept appearing Willy Nilly here and there.  
It’s closing in to the finish.
Laura just left in her little Read Smart Car.  That little Smart Car served to jump my battery this weekend when the parking lights on my Mini got tripped.  Madigan barked woefully at her departure..  She said before she left that this would be here last time in the Fifth Wheel.  It’s the beginning of a new era.  I never did use this toy hauler lor hunting or to carry my Harley to a different place. The garage turned into an office. I survived Covid here and Madigan was a puppy here.  2017 Keystone Fuzion 371.  In some ways it seems just yesterday and yet in others so much has occurred.  More years of sobriety and increasing tunneling spirituality.  
Throughout it all I’ve worked. The Snowbird trips south, first with car and then truck and camper and now next year I’ll be doing that trip in the Thor Hurricane. Having survived a winter Pacific Ocean solo sailing hurricane experience I find the Hurricane name apropos.  Thor the Vikings god. Well I likely have Vikings blood on the Irish sides along with the Celtic blood.  
I’m looking forward to Kevin coming tonight to take the gun cabinet. I’m passing on a couple of rifles for him and Anna and the kids. Purging. There’s just not space for the hunting gear as well though I’ve taken guns and ammo to the rifle storage.  I’m liking the idea of paring down.  The incredible lightness of being.  I read a blurb by a backpacker who’d scaled down in Henry David Thoreau and was singing the praises of no maintenance .  There’s always maintenance. Even God needed to have Adam tend the gardens.  It’s just that now I’m glad to have less maintenance.  I think of Anna and Kevin with 5 children and how they’ll appreciate the 4/10 that Anna had once told me she so liked.  
A simpler life.
Anil’s been doing the taxes too and getting all the book keeping materials this year was a challenge because of my travelling.  I’m looking forward to that being completed. Big events each year.  
Meanwhile the Men’s Meeting on Wednesday continues .  I was pleased to be able to introduce George to Laura on the weekend when his car was in front of Burnaby Fellowship and we could stop on the way to drop off laundry at Tiki Poo Launderers.  
So much to do, so much done, transition and changes.  It’s overwhelming at times but I used the ‘tools’ in the toolbox, breathe and do the next right thing.
I barbecued chicken for us last night as we watched old NCIS LA series with Hetty and Granger. 
Thank you Jesus. Thank you Christ.  Thank you God. 
I’ve been continuing to work and patients are kind and grateful. I appreciate their consideration when I’m stressed.  But even there I am just plodding along, steady.  I shared in an online doctors meeting that I was thinking about Slouching Towards Bethlehem more .  At times it’s like moving through molasses. I want to pull out my hair and scream but that nails scratching on chalkboard feeling passes and I just keep praying and givening thanks.  A new day has begun.
The air was so fresh this morning. I woke at 5 and couldn’t get back to sleep so got up for 6.  Laura said the same for her and was up to leave early at 630 rather than the 730 she often does.  Work days.  Structure and service.

Thank you Jesus. 

























Saturday, April 12, 2025

Harrison Hot Springs Resort

I am here again with Laura and Madigan.  I love Harrison hot springs.  I’ve been coming some 40 years. One of the best times was when I rented a cabin in the resort for my parents.   Laura and I have been coming by car, truck and motorcycle.  We’ve stayed in a half dozen of the hotels.  We loved the Bungalow cabins and see they’ve been torn down. I liked the Harrison Beach Hotel for the underground parking for m y Harley electroglide when Laura would ride on the back all over the province with me.  Gilbert my previous cockapoo came along.  He’d ride with me on the motorcycle and Mazda Miata but Laura then was relegated to my truck.  In the Miata the dogs sit on her so for a winter drive to SAN Diego I bought the Mini Cooper  to accommodate both girl and dog.    Today I have the Mini Cooper for Laura and Madigan. 
Without a dog we enjoyed dinners in the Copper Room. Before that i can remember coming for dinner and dancing in there. Since the dogs came , we’ve dined now at most of the restaurants in town that have a balcony where we can sit with a dog.  Mostly though at the Harrison Hotspring I order our meals at the Lakeside Cafe. I had their fish and chips last night. Delicious Madigan loved his burger paddy and Laura the Chicken wrap.  We topped it off with vanilla ice cream because Madigan likes a spoonful of that too.  Life revolves around the dog.  
Laura and I have now had two walk's along the lake.  It’s so beautiful. Such incredible views of lake and snow capped mountains. Blue sky and sunshine this afternoon. I was up at 8 30 and walked Madigan around the lake in a light rain  before ‘taking the waters’.  I’ve been in the adult pool twice and once in the indoor hot hot pool.  
Laura and I just returned from walking down the lake to where the hot springs are bubbling up and steaming. The water for the hotel and the public pool are taken from that point.
We’ve also come with the truck and camper and stayed at the Glencoe RV park and used the public hot spring pool .
I put a hold payment on a Thor Hurricane bus yesterday so next we will probably be bringing  that to Glencoe or another of the RV parks. There’s the provincial campground up the lake. I’ve camped along the lake and even hunted mostly grouse with my quad. There’s some wilderness hotspring up in the mountains I’ve climbed up  when. I was younger. 
Now I just love the Harrison Hot Springs resort  pool.  So meditative.  Such a gloriously beautiful place.
On the way back from my last luxurious experience I picked up cappuccino’s from the coffee shop. We get breakfast croissants there sometimes  but the cafe’s in the town make egg and bacon sandwich I bought us those this morning on my way back from the walk with Madigan. 
I love it here.  Laura loves it here.  Madigan loves it here too.  
Last night we watched a Gerald Butler movie before a peaceful sleep.  Now that we’re back from another walk time to get back down to the hot springs we can see from our window in the main building. 
God is good all of the time Thank you Jesus.   

















Friday, April 11, 2025

Traveland RV Sales and Thor Hurricane 29 M Motorhome

I bought my second RV at Traveland. Years ago.  Now I’m back again.  My friends Peter .and Larry bought their Tiffin Allegra they love there.  “My Mom and Dad bought their motorhome there,” Peter told me.   
I’ve kept getting bigger and bigger outfits much like my dad and mom did .did  They progressed from pole tent to motorhome.  I’ve followed in their wake. 
I’ve had only good experience with Traveland and their service department when I bought my RV there.  
Nicolina and Ernest just bought a Thor Hurricane.  It looked so skookum from the outside. Then Nicolina seeing me drooling at I stared at their new RV, asked <“Would you like to look inside?  Would I.
It was perfect. 
The main issue for me was the size.  32 feet. My Fifth Wheel Toyhauler is 40 feet and I’ve felt overwhelmed from the day I bought it. I use a tow truck to move it about. I love it but I don’t want to be towing it. I’m horrid at backing up. I have an Adventurer Camper with F350 which I ‘ve been snowbirding with the last few years.  My Keystone Fuzion 371 stays in storage because I find it too long to haul and worry about smashing it up as I did once with an earlier RV 
Nicolina and Ernest’s Thor is just perfect.  I really believe I can drive a bus that big. It’s gas so I don’t need any extra licensing.  Not like diesel which requires air brakes training. 
Peter and Larry’s Tiffin is truly luxurious but another 4- 6 feet longer.  I don’t know what it is psychologically but I really worry about taking turns with that extra length. I’ve yet to test drive the Thor but it really does seem manageable.
I’m taking Laura to Harrison’s Hot Spring this weekend so asked if she’d mind stopping by and looking at the buses in Traveland.  I really wanted to buy from them again.  I did  well with Meridian buying the Fuzion but the whole process of financing wore me out. It was a half day of delays and by the time the papers were signed the joy of the sale had gone. I really did consider going back then though because they are a good company and had excellent service.  My memory of Traveland and Peter’s endorsement had me going there first. 
Laura said she’d love to come along.  
Traveland is a 10 minute easy to get to drive off the number one.  She immediately remembered it fondly from before. “You bought the RV here the year you took me to Italy.”  She said.  I’d had a medical conference in Milan, IDAA with Dr. Nady El Guebaly. A superb conference all round. Laura and I loved Milan and I’d taken an extra week so we could visit Rome.  I’d rented a Vespa there and Laura and I not only visited the Vatican but rode the Vespa around Rome visiting the other famous cathedral’s.  On return to Canada we so enjoyed the new RV. 
Kenny was the salesman the two beautiful receptionists at the front of Traveland  called out for us.  He was thoroughly delightful .  Asked all the right questions and took me directly to a Thor Hurricane, “That’s just come in and fits your budget and I think is what you’re looking for.’  It sure was.  Second hand 2022 but only 20,000 KM on it 
“Laura,” I asked, “What do you thiink of it?” 
“I love it.” She said, Big smile. 
I loved sitting in the driver’s seat. Panoramic view.  Back up camera display.  There was a couch with seats and a dinette table.  The kitchen, sinks, microwave, and fridge were all just fine with lots of counter space for my cooking. What was a real treat was an outdoor kitchen with little fridge and sink and propane for a barbecue. I ‘m always barbecuing.  There’s an outdoor tv but I ‘d rather be inside  on the couch, watching  the really big screen tv. Laura had a couple of places she could sit too. We like to watch shows together while having dinner.  Vera, Yellowstone, Reacher, Bosch.   Most importantly Laura liked the spacious washroom. She ‘s particular about washrooms wanting space and spending an hour in there every morning. I might get a portapotty for relief. . The attraction of bigger RV’’s like the luxurious Tiffin is that they have an extra toilet like my fifth wheel does.  I’ve occasionally used it but I think we can make a solo toilet work. We’ve done it in apartments and hotels and the camper. In the camper we’ve been more often in the wilderness,   I’ve just gone outside with Madigan if she was holds things up inside . Older I don’t seem to have the capacity to hold it like I did younger.

Kenny showed us the Tiffin and it really was luxurious but I just felt it was too great a challenge for me to drive. I liked the slightly shorter Thor and felt I could maneuver it more safely with garter confidence .

All the way to Harrison’s Hot Springs. I was talking to Laura about it. All the pros and cons. I’ve been thinking of a bus since I was in the south this last winter and wanting to have one for next winter’s snow bird month.  As well I’d like to be able to just pick up and go camping in the summer with Laura. With the fifth wheel there’s the whole hitch and hydraulics and slides . The Hurricane only has one slide. With the camper there’s the loading and unloading and the happy jacks. It’s an hour to pick it up in the truck and an hour to leave it at the storage each trip. With the bus, like my sailboat, I can be heading out in a half hour . Peter told me that’s how long it takes him and Larry to come and go. 

I phoned Anil Auluck, my accountant to run it by him. I’d already talked weeks back to my wise friend, George. He’d just bought himself a new Buick and when I saw him last at Burnaby men’s he’d said, “so did you buy it”.  I’d discussed deisel versus gas with him and Kenny and Peter. Peter’s Tiffin came with choice of gas or diesel, the diesel more expensive . “Ive never regretted getting gas.”  Peter said.  George thought the diesel lasts longer but said as Kenny said,   I wouldn’t be putting the hours on the engine in a motorhome that a truck or commercial vehicle .  Longevity doesn’t count when you’ re not putting on the miles. The Class A diesel pushers are clearly the best especially new as they hold their value but the fact for me is I’m older and am only planning to motorhome the next 10 years. .  I see myself continuing to work virtually for 5 to 10 years but after that I don’t know. My Dad lived to 94.  Mom and he enjoyed their motorhome until mid 80’s when his eyes and energy gave out.  So I think the gas is fine for me. 

Actually I liked everything about the Thor Hurricane just as Ernest and Nicolina did. . Kevin Oh at TD gave me really useful information about financing because I didn’t want to face unnecessary loss taking out RRSP”s or mutual funds and such. I have the money in the bank but there’s good and better ways to take it out without penalty or the rapacious government wanting more .   Both he and Anil and Kenny all ex;planned how I could do it wisely.  I put $2000 down and now will be talking on Monday with Kenny moving forward.  I will have a test drive next Friday.

Again I love Traveland.  I also like that I’m  blessed to know all these wonderful people I  trust and can rely on for good advice.  I tell them if they have a head wound or develop schizophrenia I’d be there for them too. .  

I thought about Thor god of the Vikings and the idea of Hurricane. I’d not only survived three days of hurricane solo sailing the pacific in winter I’d been truly exhilarated going through the eye of the storm and coming out the other side.  Hurricane is a positive memory for me though I have to admit it was some of the most terrifying days and nights of my life. It taught me ‘surrender’ as I could only trust in God and hold on.  I did that.  Here I am again trusting in God.  I’m glad Laura loves it too.

Madigan was being a real brat barking outrageously  when I wouldn’t let him come inside and jump all over the furniture.  He didn’t understand there would be time for that only after the sale was closed. I have no doubt he’ll love it .  He likes  where he gets to be with me and Laura.   

Now we’re at Harrison Hot Springs Rsort . I’ve been in the mineral springs and we’ve walked Madigan around the duck pond.  God is good all of the time.   Thy will be done. Thank you Jesus.! 

















Friday, April 4, 2025

Lazy Day Friday, Metro Vespa, Madigan, Commercial Drive

Since arriving back from Southern California, Arizona and Mexico I feel I’ve had a whirlwind of work and errands.  It all began to slow down with Laura’s visit last week.  I so enjoyed the VSO with Fliter playing Chopin.  I was getting ahead of myself.  Thinking too far into the future.
I’d had to ace the Opthalmologist and learn that I’m not dead.  Good news.  I actually asked if I would be able to ride my motorcycle for another 10 years and he said yes.  My dad had macular degeneration and losing his ability to drive and read was devastating for him. Mom’s deafness was easier for her. She’d heard it all and increasingly preferred her memories.  She did miss tv and loved her grand children.  Becoming bedridden did her in.  We so love motion.  
I’m considering trading in my fifth wheel for a motor home and the investment in driving and sight is on my mind.  Another eye apt in a few weeks.  Discussion of surgery and scheduling.  It’s all quite overwhelming considering that I’m humbled by lack of spiritual awareness.  But Jesus might have walked on water and raised the dead and cured the blind he still didn’t chose to change his own mission.  Now I’m glad to ask for help.  Dr. Horvath recommended the Vancouver Eye Clinic when I told him my lovely opthalmologist had retired.  It actually turned out that the excellent kind accomplished Dr. Macintosh had died.  I believe in ‘thy will be done’ which 
I saw Dr. Rob Pintwala and despite being young he was excellent.  I felt truly blessed and grateful for great physicians.  
Still I have had a gambit of emotions terror, defeat, depression, hopelessness.  It’s natural when my normally excellent coping mechanism of denial and magical thinking fail.  It’s all possibly god’s making me blind like I was told I’d be as a kid for looking at naked women or porn or any thing sexual actually.  Since the first divorce I’ve been hell bent. That’s why we say religion is for those who don’t want to go to hell and spirituality is for those who’ve been and don’t want to go back.  I want to see a decade or more longer to drive a Motorhome and motorcycle .
I’ve having an issue with Vanity. My Vespa GT Supertech 300 is just perfect for all my needs.  It was light enough that I could carry it well south on the rack on the front of my Ford Truck.  It has all the power and get up and go to handle rides on the highway and scooting about the city.  I have the Harley in storage right now. It’s joy in the country and styling in the city.  It’s heavier and last year was harder to get on and off the carrier rack.  However last year I had great long distance rides in the desert while theirs year I only did 20 minutes rides on the Harley from Mexico to Yuma.  The rest of the time I was travelling about town mostly.  Now I’m using it for shopping and errands.  I’d like to have the Harley to ride up to Whistler and do the Duffly Lake circle.  Maybe later in the summer I’ll get it out. For now except for the vanity issue I’m really enjoying the Vespa. 
The brunch here at Havana was spectacular.  Madigan loved a burger chopped up and ate that while i delighted in the taste and texture sensation of the Chorizo Hash.  Now I’m have another cafe at lait. 
People watching remans great on David.  Now that I’m among the oldest here all the men and women are girls and boys to me so people watching has decades of entertainment.  I m invisible now too.  Everyone notices Madigan but I’m merely the accessory.
Great news that Maxine and Pierre healed the rift in the Conservatives increasing the potential for saner folk to evict the Liberals from leadership.  I look at the platform and it’s by far superior to what Carnie is offering but it’s a compromise.  I really am enjoying Trump and Doge and would love to see something similar here.  The Freedom folk got charged with ‘mischief’ which is a rather face saving thing for the courts and government considering the tyranny and evil of Trudeau and Liberals.  I really don’t like the Ottawa sharia communism shift and anti Christian anti Canada position. I know the Conservatives will be centre and not the extreme left wing and communist chinese apping that the Liberals WEF religions holds.  It’s’ awful seeing the direction of Britain.  Censorship and migrants coming from countries where the censorship is the worst.  
Oh well.  
It’s all above my pay grade and I’ll be very relived when the Liberals are out and Trudeau is gone. I’d be happiest if he was in jail.  
It’s a sunny day. The Cherry Trees are blossoming here. The daffodils too.  
It’s a great day to be alive .I’m alive. I have this fantastic liket dog companion. I’ve spent the week working with great staff at the clinics, have incredible patients getting better, moving forward, struggling to do their best, and I’ve had a great meal and have a home to return too.  Life is good. God is good.
Metro Vespa just called to say my Vespa is ready. Hooray.  I just need to finish this second coffee . I can use the toilet in the park across the street. I may ask here but having Madigan along makes the park toilet okay. 
I’ve been seeing the Tezla cars on the road and liking the look of them .  Well designed.  I wish Ron was alive. He loved Tezla and I’d like to see him driving one. Probably he has one in heaven.  I miss my mom and dad so maybe death is really just going home. One day the longing takes over.  
God is good all of the time.  Today is great.