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September 2025 - House Painting, Golfing with Dinosaurs, Ghost Dam Sailing

In this month I finally finished the house painting, enjoyed an incredibly scenic round of golf in Drumheller and we did our annual Ghost Dam sail.  Check out the Other Stuff for the usual randomness and commentaries on The Life of Brad...

Three weeks of 5-6 hour days of going deeper and deeper into the wood siding like a drug addict chasing the dragon I finally said that was enough.  To do it all over again I would have applied chemicals and pressure washed then peeled the last of the paint off.  The one thing that held me back from going to bare wood was the more bare wood the more paint needed and the more expensive and more time it would have been to apply.  Either way when my friends told me it was a big job, they weren't kidding.  Thanks to Roger, Dale and Stuart for lending me some needed tools to do this massive job.

Bad line for sure


Thought the primer would fill





The End!
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Done.  Looks good from far, but far from...

The Thursday group made it to Drumheller (famous for dinosaur findings) and the boys couldn't stop talking about how great a place it was.  After the first 9 I thought it was nice then the back 9 blown me away.  It was so picturesque, but impossible to play!  Worth the 1.5 hr drive each way to see this landscape from above.  Thanks Roger for driving.

We're in T-Rex territory 

Looks nice

Fun front 9 and a good score going to back 9

Where are we climbing to?

No way, on top of the Hoodoos...

Phil was ready, I was not


Never lost so many balls, like 1 per hole

Spectacular


Another ADIT golf tourney (Blue Devil this year), which for a small company is basically a foursome.  Highlight was when Alex smashed his driver over the water on Hole number 6 to get within 30 yards of the green.  He had to carry 220 yards over the water to where there was virtually no place land!


Me, Dale, Andrew, Alex

Finally got out to Ghost Dam for the annual sail and camping trip on Dale and I's Siren 17.  Unfortunately due to a stormy evening coming, high water giving low options for land fall to over night and no winds the next day we decided to only go for the day.  It was fantastic regardless!







Other Stuff

So healthy...not

All about the cash and rules
Canada's new medical system

At Maria's hanging with Maestro



Thomas' new batch of chickens



Trying my new blocks for 
mom's oil change

backyard steak


Nice to be a country to bend
over backwards for everyone

Made me check my bag which
felt like Mexico...things are 
changing in Canada.


Weirdest book station
Oops...spilly Brad

Last sail of the year...what a finish

Picked up a safe getting rid of 
my bank deposit box
Look at those vintage clothes

A sign to let you know everyone
is included except the
freedom to be yourself

The winning team at Mugs trivia

Oh man I love polish lunch

Yep, change those brake pads



Making a birch sculpture

yikes, change that breather out


August 2025 - Sold Stryker, Strip the House, Big Garage Sale

In the month I took a stroll down memory lane, Black Berry Bold Classic coming back, Sold Stryker, had a few weekends of Garage Saling and the big battle...started Stripping Paint off my house...bad idea...

A bunch of Calgary August saw lots of rain , but came right at the midway point in time for selling off some stuff.

Look at all those vintage items


Check out the Blackberry Bold Classic from 2015 still rocking in 2025!

so much stuff that 
never gets used

Look at that moon...


Bought my 2017 Vstrom 650 "Stryker" in 2020 never expected to buy something so new, but hey the Pandemic changed us all.  Had some great day with my yellow buddy (rode over 10,000 km), but now with my new adventure on the horizon I truly didn't need two motorbikes in the garage.  Good bye my friend.  Brennan was so pumped for his first bike.

First bike for Brennan

They'll both be ok

garage saling!


Buying up for boat captaining



Tott me!

At Swigs with Lando



hey little guy

backyard bevies

its for sale


Sapphire chasing a coyote


On the res


Decided to jump in to a little, that became big project of painting the siding on my house...The paint on the sunny side was in bad shape and only 10 years old.  It was done poorly by a pro Michael Wallace, a drummer, I gave a shot to help finance his music career.  It all looked good, but suffered air trapped under the primer.  This was going to take some effort...


How many different tools...
Do I need to buy more?


Dale's suggested tools

Roger's suggested tools

And Stuart's suggested tools.  I used them all!
good to protect the back fence
 after all these years...

Where else would you store
your oil based paint brush
Still kinda smiling

So...maybe more than a few days

You don't have to leave home to 
see drunk girls in bikinis


Down the river!


Chestermere golf course

took forever, like 7 years to 
go from 210k km to 250k km
The golf ball story...
ask me about it some time


How can import beef from NZ
be less expensive??

nice find from Vietnam at 
the dollar store


A full downtown