Snowshoeing without a camera just a paint brush

This morning when my alarm went off, at first I thought it was a work day. Then I said, wait a minute. It's Saturday. Saturday March 18th the day after Saint Patrick's Day and I didn't go out drinking last night so I have no hangover. Awesome. I feel great. The forecast said sunny so I head straight up the mountain and hit the trail running.

As soon as I hit the first ridge I pulled out my camera to take a picture of the snow covered hills glistening in the sunshine and realized I had left my camera in my ski pants which I left at my motorcycle in the parking lot. I thought yeah I'm not going all the way back for it because if I do, I'm not hiking all the way back up and then summiting. So I pressed forward without it.

They say a picture's worth a thousand words and that it is. So I'll use a few words to paint a picture of what I saw today. The trail was hard packed and a bit icy. Perfect for crampons. The sun was shining and glistening off the ice crystals in the snow. It was magnificent. I'm surprised the mountain wasn't busier. I went up Hollyburn Ridge on Cypress.

You could see the snow capped mountains on Vancouver Island in the distance but it was a little bit hazy. Yet everything on the mountain was crystal clear. When I came back down I took a picture of the thousand year old yellow cedar right before the turn off to the nordic area. It's not very tall but it's very wide. It's hard to imagine it's been there for a thousand years.

Then I rode over to Whitecliff. The parking lot was packed already. Everyone was in spring picnic mode. It's been cold and rainy for a long time. Lots of scuba divers there as well. A seal swam over to check them out. After that I head over to the Cleveland Dam on Capilano road at the foot of Grouse Mountain and it was packed too. Almost like a summer's day.

My father used to take me to Whitecliff when I was young to take pictures of the sunset. He would also take me to the Cleveland Dam to take pictures of the Lions over the reservoir. I guess that's why I like to take pictures. I prefer taking pictures of the Lions face to face from the mountaintop.

Blaze still trolls me incessantly. For someone that claims I don't have a life he sure obsesses over this insignificant blog so he does. It's always a barrage of stupid and childish insults that are all very insecure and pointless. Recently he was mocking me for having stayed in the same community I grew up in. I spent four years travelling around the world. I like it here. I have a lot of really good memories here. Everywhere I go triggers a nice memory.

As I was walking around the rocks at Whitecliff I thought it was difficult to imagine I walked this same spot when I was young yet I remember and I remember taking my kids there as well. On the way up to Cleveland Dam I passed by the fish ladder. I remember taking my kids there just like my father took me. Last month I took an alternate route home from Vancouver and passed by my first apartment I rented when I moved out after High School.

When I walk over to my kids school I remember picking my daughter up on my motorcycle and watching my son perform. I guess that's why old people don't like selling their house. They have so many good memories they don't want to lose. Yesterday I rode by the complexes my mother and my father lived in before they died. It's nice to have roots.

Yes it is ridiculously expensive to live here now. I remember doing genealogy on my mother side. Many of her ancestors came over on ship to Halifax from Yorkshire. On the passenger lists they would state their reason for leaving England. Almost all of them said it was because taxes were too high and rent was too expensive. Kind of like it is here now. The problem is, we have no place to go. Everywhere is expensive now. They sure aren't handing out any land grants any more.

When I see a big house all I can think about is a big hydro bill and a lot of property tax. When my parents retired they rented a small apartment. When you're old, that's all you need. Now that I'm getting old I can start thinking about traveling again. Yet this place will always be my home. It's where I'm from. I've been tempted many times to move to Alberta. I may retire there. I want to retire somewhere cheap so I can travel and make new memories. Life goes on so it does.

Iceberg season has now begun

Thursday morning it was minus one on the ride into work on my motorcycle. I was thinking it's half way through March. When's it going to start getting warmer out? It will. Usually when I ride a full season and make it to March I can breathe a sigh of relief and say I made it. This March is still a little bit chilly but we are sure grateful for the awesome snow conditions on the local mountains.

The time change has pushed to sunrise back a bit so it's still dark out. Thursday morning was clear and cold but you could see a magnificent crescent moon on the horizon. Muslims use the crescent moon as their symbol. Usually we get all excited about a full moon but a crescent moon looks cool too. I think it's symbolic of the curve on their swords. The Sikhs have curved swords as well. I'm more into the straight swords myself but I certainly do respect different styles.

Yesterday a coworker from Newfoundland showed me on his phone iceberg season has started back home since I was asking about it. I'd really like to see that. I've lived on the west coast all my life and we never see icebergs here. I wonder why that it. Maybe it's because Greenland is so far south it ices up during winter and melts during summer. All I know is that we don't get them out here and I'd love to see them. There's a website that tracks them so you know when to visit.

Sometimes polar bears come down on the icebergs and start roaming the countryside. That is wild. I'm fine with black bears but I will not f*ck with grizzlies or polar bears. I remember visiting the Maritimes when I was a kid. They have fireflies out there. We don't have them on the west coast. Those are cool too. After the Alaska trip I want to ride out to Halifax and Newfoundland.

Dutch farmers' protest party scores big election win

Reuters is reportig that "A farmers' protest party shook up the political landscape in the Netherlands on Wednesday, emerging as the big winner in provincial elections that determine the make-up of the Senate. The BBB or BoerBurgerBeweging (Farmer-Citizen Movement) party rode a wave of protests against the government's environmental policies and looked set to have won more Senate seats than Prime Minister Mark Rutte's conservative VVD party."

"A first exit poll projected BBB won 15 of a total of 75 seats in the Senate, which has the power to block legislation agreed in the Lower House of parliament, with the VVD dropping from 12 to 10 seats. The meteoric rise of BBB is a major blow for Rutte's governing coalition, casting doubt over its aim to drastically cut nitrogen pollution on farms, the single issue upon which BBB was founded in 2019." This is what it takes to stop the insanity.

The nitrogen fraud has nothing to do with protecting the environment. Farming is the greenest thing you can do for the planet. Plants and trees turn CO2 into Oxygen. Plants need nitrogen to grow. The nitrogen fraud is about starving the masses so the WEF can implement their brand of Communism and turn consumers into slaves. It's time to wake up and smell the coffee.

Devil's Reject found guilty of murder

The Times Colonist is reporting that "The former president of the Devil’s Army Motorcycle Club has been convicted of the March 2016 murder of Dillon Brown, a competitive mixed martial arts fighter. Late Wednesday night, a B.C. Supreme Court jury found Richard 'Ricky' Alexander guilty of the first-degree murder of Brown, who was shot in the head at the Devil’s Army clubhouse in Campbell River on March 11, 2016. With eight sheriffs standing by, Alexander, 68, was placed in handcuffs and led from the courtroom to begin serving the mandatory sentence of life in prison with no possibility of parole for 25 years. A sentencing hearing will be held Thursday afternoon."

Erin go bragh. Tiocfaidh ár lá. Ricky Alexander looks like a Drag Queen and carried a pink .22.

It's the Holy Day so it is

Celtic Fest returns to Museum of Surrey March 25th

Fatal shooting in Surrey

CTV is reporting that "One person is dead and an investigation has been launched after a shooting in Surrey’s Grandview Heights area Monday night. Neighbours in the 2200-block of 168 Street tell CTV News they heard a series of five or six gunshots in rapid succession just before 8:00 p.m. Monday. According to Surrey RCMP, when officers responded to 911 calls about the shooting, they found a man in a parked vehicle with fatal bullet wounds. Police say the victim was already deceased by the time officers arrived."

Suspects arrested in Calgary shootings

CTV is reporting that "Calgary police have named the two men arrested in connection with a deadly shooting in the community of Douglasdale and another shooting in the East Village months before. Kai Errol Horst Keller, a 30-year-old Calgarian, has been charged with first-degree murder in the Douglasdale incident. (of Ashley Aaron Cuthbert Mawdsley) Kai Keller was referred to as a gang associate when he was busted with a loaded handgun in 2017. Keller was also busted with body armour and an illegal gun back in 2013.

"Erik Anthony Silva, a 28-year-old Calgarian, has been charged with one count of attempted murder and six firearm-related offences in the East Village incident. That shooting happened months prior, in the parkade underneath the Real Canadian Superstore in the 400 block of Sixth Avenue S.E. The shooting unfolded in broad daylight, just after 12:30 p.m. on Aug. 2, but no one was killed." Erik Silva had a drug charge back in 2015.

800 kilos of precursors seized in Metro Vancouver

Today in BC is reporting that two Metro Vancouver drug busts resulted in the seizure of 600 kilograms of a fentanyl precursor and 200 kilograms of an MDMA precursor. Someone in the CFSEU has seen the light. These kind of drug busts save lives.

Fake News and the CCP take over of NATO

This headline is so ridiculous we're going to have to talk about it because it clearly reveals how lost in space the mainstream media really is. Bill Gates Communist News Network linked to a bizarre story from Newsweek. The headline reads "Trump Return Would Be 'Geopolitical Catastrophe,' Warns Ex NATO Chief." That is straight out of the Twilight Zone.

Remember NATO has been taken over by the CCP. They want China to join NATO. NATO supports the WEF. The article quotes Anders Fogh Rasmussen pictured above who is a World Economic Forum contributor. As is Jens Stoltenberg the current Secretary General of NATO.

Why does he think a Trump return would be a Geopolitical Catastrophe? Because it would destroy the WEF's agenda. His first concern is Trump's position on the war in the Ukraine. The article states that "Trump told Fox News' Tucker Carlson that opposing Russia in Ukraine is not a matter of vital strategic interest for the U.S." It's not! We need to take a time out and find out where billions of tax dollars are going beside to the Democrat party through FTX.

Let's connect the dots and to the math. If Trump withdrew the billions of tax dollars supporting the war in the Ukraine the war would come to an end. Zelenskyy would be forced to negotiate a settlement with Russia. Right now he's refusing to negotiate because of the financial support from the United States. That support is prolonging the conflict unnecessarily.

What's Russia's primary concern? Ukraine putting nuclear missiles on Russia's border and Ukraine's bombing of the Donbas. All he has to do is say we won't put nuclear missiles on your border and we'll stop bombing the Donbas. As soon as he does that, the war is over.

The Geopolitical Catastrophe is the fact that NATO wants to also put nuclear missiles on Russia's other border in Finland and Sweden. That's the Geopolitical Catastrophe. Making peace in the Ukraine is not. If Trump put an end to the US Biolabs in the Ukraine that would not create a Geopolitical Catastrophe. Creating them already has. Don't get me started on Biden's dirty deals in the Ukraine. The movie My Son Hunter tells the tale.

Remember that insane witch hunt when they tried to impeach Trump again for asking Zelensky to look ino Joe Biden and his son Hunter's business deals in the Ukraine? As soon as he expressed the concern they tried to impeach him for bringing it up. They were laundering money for the Chinese Communist Party for f*cks sake. Mitt Romney said oh no, we shouldn't investigate that. Because him and his spook were involved with it. They all were. Remember when Shakespeare said the lady doth protest too much me thinks. That meant they were over reacting so much it was obvious they had something to hide. The CIA and the media completely covered it all up.

RCMP seize drugs, guns, and lay bribery and breach of trust charges in Project Dawgpound

The RCMP is reporting that "Intelligence gathered by the Manitoba RCMP Criminal Intelligence Section and Divisional Criminal Analysts Section led investigators with the Manitoba Organized Crime Unit to identify a multi-kilo, multi-commodity trafficker operating out of Winnipeg."

"Hue Ha, 36, from Winnipeg, was identified as the orchestrator of large amounts of cocaine coming into the province from Ontario. Investigators discovered Ha or a designate would often go to Ontario to pick up drugs and unstamped cigarettes and bring them back to Manitoba."

"It became apparent that Ha had information regarding police enforcement plans, and police narrowed that leak down to a specific investigator within the Manitoba Finance Special Investigations Unit. Donovan Sired, 50, from Winnipeg, was arrested and charged with Bribery of Officers, Breach of Trust by Public Officer, and Conspiracy to Evade Payment."

Manitoba RCMP rip it up once again. Well done.