I slept well and got up late. After a late breakfast of steak & eggs, I
caught up on email, and around 3 we headed out, for Sudbury, and John & Jill
for KonTiki to go aboard their (second) cruiser. John had come across a bigger,
better boat and purchased it, with intentions of selling the first. However the
original still sits awaiting a new owner.
I arrived in Sudbury around 5 and went to Bill's. He was
hosting amateur radio field day in his back yard so I helped out with some QSOs. "This is V-E-3-Zulu-India, V-E-3-Z-I. You are five alpha in
ON"
I woke up around 9 and went to see Linda. Mom came by after church and we had
lunch. In the afternoon. I wandered around town. Then we returned to
Linda's for supper and a movie.
I see the weather in Alberta is rain, and that is a good thing. The
bees are -- for the most part -- good and with the rain, we have hopes of a good
crop if it turns hot. I have not been seeing much canola in my travels at home,
so we'll be relying more on clover and alfalfa. I did see a recent article,
however, saying that hybrid herbicide resistant canolas are becoming a serious
weed. This is not necessarily bad news for beekeepers.
I've been in Sudbury since Saturday night and it is getting to be time to
head south. I want to stop in Muskoka for a while and to stop in Toronto to see
my aunt and a cousin or two.
I spent the night at Pine Hill, then passed a leisurely day at the
cottage. In the afternoon, I played around on the windsurfer in the river,
then at five headed south to turn in the car and fly home. I arrived in
Calgary at midnight and got home around one.
Ellen & I caught a flight to Pearson at 2:15 and arrived in Toronto
around six. We spent an hour getting our car, a blue Echo with 2,000 km on
it and then proceeded north to Port Carling. We arrived around ten and
found the weather perfect. There were hardly any mosquitoes.
We awoke and had a leisurely morning, then decided to go to Sudbury to attend
my cousin's funeral Saturday. Ellen had not been East for a while, so
everyone was eager to see her.
We had supper in Sudbury at a Chinese buffet with mom, Linda, Sarah, Lindsay,
Mairin, and Graham, then dropped in at Ellen's aunt's apartment for a few
minutes. We were near a Canadian Tire store, so I stopped there to get a pressure
washer and then went to Linda's since Neal, my cousin was planning to drop
by. By 10:45, we realized he wasn't going to make it and headed over to
Mom's.
"If I make a
living off it, that's great -- but I come from a culture where you're valued not
so much by what you acquire but by what you give away,"
-- Larry Wall (the inventor of Perl)