Retired And Enjoying Life

Retired IT Systems Manager for Public School District Life in EDTech... and life

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Fall Light

Always love the light in the fall, the way it streams through the trees when there is a slight mist in the air. Light in the Trees

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Slow Year

Slow Year for spring this year.

Was just flipping some pictures from last year and came across this one, ignore the flower baskets pay attention to the tree. April 26, 2021 Now look at this one I just took, first of all no baskets!! The tree, I think that shows how this spring has been so different from last spring. April 26, 2022 It is raining again right now, we would prefer some long sun days now, this would also help…

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This Could Get Interesting

This Could Get Interesting

So who does one support if Canada get to play England?

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Surgery and Hospital Stay

Surgery and Hospital Stay

So I am getting around to writing up my journey so far, I just have not had the inclination to do any writing about my Cancer, and so this will bring things up to date as of my surgery and I promise to get some other post wrote over the next couple of weeks, just in time for some Christmas reading. I had the surgery on October 5th, a date forever etched in my mind, according to my surgeon it…

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PCF

So here we are, a brief account of where we are so far as I have kept things out of the general populous as I wanted close family of mine to get to hear personally and not through social media. Back in May of this year so I went to get my prescriptions renewed at the local walk in clinic in Nanaimo. We have been unable to find a family Dr since moving here, not that we are the only ones, i read…

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Coming Soon

I was hoping to post the info of the final leg of my first EV road trip once I arrived, fortunately for you, I have a lot more to say as that final leg was an adventure, and therefore taking a little longer to write. However, it does contain some jaw dropping news for anyone passing through GP in an EV, yeh I know! Which you will really want to read.

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Stop 3 Blue River

I could have actually made it to Mount Robson where there are a couple of fast chargers, but they are only 25kw, so opted to get to 80% in Blue River then can top up to 80% at Robson then use the level 2 charger to get to 100%. Jasper is an unknown, there are a few level 2 chargers but they could be occupied and as I have to be at 100% leaving for Grande Prairie I want to be safe, I probably…

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The EV Road Trip

Well here we are ready to set off on the first road trip in the Kobe EV. Having never had a electric vehicle this first trip is be done with a certain degree of trepidation, I am sure it will be fine, and I see this as a great adventure . I have been following the 20/80 charging regimen, that is, charging when it gets to around 20% and only going to 80%. So for the trip I brought it up to 100%,…

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Electric Car

Back in February after many stressful trips in the car with a crazy dog, I was wondering about the suitability of a 4 door sedan and having a border collie puppy. The 4 door sedan was a Hyundai Sonata Hybrid, a car we bought as we planned our move to British Columbia with its $1.50l gas prices, currently $1.52 in places. When I checked the trade-in value of the car I was shocked, its value was…

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Featured Photos of the week

Featured Photos of the week

Apple Photos does a good job, in my opinion, at bubbling up photos from the past, many of which bring back some good memories, so I thought it would be kind of cool throughout a week to pick a number of these pictures and post them, they will often be of travels to others places, some near some far. So here we go this week’s selection. Ballon Ride Over Grande Prairie Balloon Ride October…

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New Look New Outlook

New Look New Outlook

Trying some new looks with the blog, so sorry if it is a little inconsistent over the next couple of weeks as I settle on a new look and customize it. Been a while since I posted with life getting in the way along with a new puppy which swallowed up my time with just trying to keep things moving around the house and even that fails, don’t believe me you should see my floors right now!! It’s hard…

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Pisa

For some reason this did not get posted back in 2018 when we did our trip to Italy, better late than never. We never did do a fill blog of the trip. Next time!! Pisa was our first stop on our Italian road trip, and after a 5 hour drive was a welcomed please to explore for a couple of nights. We had originally booked a Bed & Breakfast place a little further out of town that where we originally…

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Test

This and that

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Blueback Beach A quiet time on the beach, life is good here on the island and look forward to many more visits to chill and relax.

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Mornings

Mornings are a time to think.

What are mornings?

When you work mornings are a busy run around get lunch made get the kids up make a coffee grab some breakfast shower shave get dressed get out the door on time… phew (sorry Clyde)

Yes mornings can be stressful when you are working, but once you retire and you step back mornings are a time to contemplate the day, life and one hundred and one other things.

I am sat here…

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