This has been a relatively
calm week, which is good as there were times when we didn’t have internet
access. We have had work teams in our building for the past couple of weeks
running wiring in our overhead spaces for a new telephone and internet system.
Despite having to work and step around the workers, everything went pretty well
until Wednesday evening when we had to shut our computers completely down.
Early Thursday morning the IT people were in to hook everything up, but all did
not go as planned and we were pretty much off the grid until Friday morning
while they worked out the bugs in the system. The biggest problem proved to be
connecting to the printers. They would successfully get one computer to be able
to print, only to mess up connectivity to another computer. And so it went
through much of Friday morning until finally all the pieces fell into place and
everything began working.
So much of what I do with the
cars and car files requires being online, but not being able to work online
provided me with time to sort through a bunch of stuff left over from former
fleet managers and get rid of outdated and duplicated stuff. I truly feel
nearly caught up now; I say nearly because there is still considerable stuff in
the computer files that needs to be cleared out also. Hopefully I can work more
efficiently so that I can have time to make this happen.
We purchased a single cherry
tomato plant a few weeks ago and have it setting on our patio where it gets
plenty of sun. It seemed to struggle for a time but now is blossoming and doing
well so we may actually get some cherry tomatoes before the summer is out. The
weather this past week has been delightfully cool so some hotter weather to
come should stimulate more growth.
Kathy began coming down with
some head cold symptoms on Friday and didn’t feel much like going out yesterday
on our P-day; I took advantage of this to do something I have been wanting to
do that I knew would likely be boring for her. Our travels frequently take us
past the military museum here in Calgary. Except for seeing the seemingly
airborne F-5 jet on display there, which is right off Crowchild Trail, much of the
outside displays are pretty much hidden by an earthen berm. The F-5 jet shown below was
once in the Canadian Air Force fleet. It is the same jet flown in U. S. Air Force pilot
training, the T-35, and by the Air Force Astronauts. When I was in pilot training, it was affectionately known as "the white rocket" as it is capable of supersonic speeds and the pilot training versions are white in color.
Anyway, as I was saying, I
knew I would probably want to spend more time going through the museum than
Kathy would like to spend so off I went. The museum is wonderful and so huge
that, after 4 hours of touring and reading, I decided to save the rest for
another day so I went outside where I took additional pictures of the F-5. I
will include another of it and some pictures of some of the displays inside. 
Since I am retired military I
was admitted for free. The security guy at the front desk turned out to be a
Canadian military retiree and so we had a nice discussion of our various jobs
while on active duty. He took a special interest in me and periodically sought me out in order to call my attention to some of the more obscure things he thought perhaps I
had missed (and most of them I had missed). One of them was a picture and medal
of a WWI Canadian POW who had been awarded the Bavarian Cross of Military Merit
while a prisoner. As you will see in the following picture, it was for saving
the life of a young German girl from drowning.
One thing was apparent
through much of the museum, - so much of what the Canadian Armed Forces have
been involved with has been in support of U.S. and British (naturally) war efforts. We
are truly joined at the hip, so to say, with Canada, and their support and
contributions have provided much to our military efforts. One surprise was a
room devoted wholly to Canada’s support of United Nations projects. The picture below is part of the Canadian Navy display.
As mentioned, I will look
forward to returning again to the museum. I still have the Canadian Air Force
and the Army areas to tour as well as the other parts of the museum that are in
separate buildings or on open display outside in the weather.
Today, Sunday, was our Stake
Conference where we heard from a multitude of speakers including Elders Nash
and Priday of the Seventy. All of the talks were outstanding. Kathy and I sang
with the Stake Choir so we had a seat right up front. We came home and Kathy (who
is doing quite well with her cold symptoms, BTW) prepared a wonderful dinner of
BBQ spare ribs, baked potatoes, green salad, fresh pineapple, etc. Yum!
I hope all you father’s out
there who may be reading this blog entry had a wonderful Father’s Day. And may
we be eternally grateful for the Father of us all who loves us, who cares for
us, and who has provided the way to return to Him according to His Plan
of Happiness for us. (If any of you who may be reading this don't know what is meant by the Plan of Happiness, I would be happy to tell you of it.)
Have a great week!
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