Theresa and I and her family went to Armed Forces Day and Airshow at Canadian Forces Base Comox this past Sunday. The planes were awesome. The Demos were spectacular, especially the F-18, F-16 and Snowbirds… and the airplane displays were really cool. There was everything from ultra-lights to float planes to a Spitfire cockpit, to …
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Hiking Mt. Arrowsmith
Mom and I went hiking this morning. We took the “Saddle trail” up Mt. Arrowsmith. It was a very steep hike, but only took us 1.5 hours from trailhead to the ridge! The view was, of course, beautiful… could see East to Nanaimo and Vancouver, and West to Port Alberni, Sproat Lake, Great Central and …
Never Again
When you hear those in power trying to convince you that Nuclear bombs and weaponry are necessary please read this. Akiko Seitelbach was 22 years old, and working at Mitsubishi Electrical as a volunteer, when the atomic bomb fell on Nagasaki. On 9 August 1945, I was working in the supply office. I was a …