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Treasure Hunt!!
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This looks fun!
Link: https://treasure.northernminer.com/
Now I might have to rack my brains for a bit, money's on it's going to be close to Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver. Since I have agents in most of these places I just might try my luck...
Mind you, gagging on that abysmal poetry, I mean, they're making you work for it if you have to suffer that to find it...
The Labour Day Power Outage
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The daughter had asked during her visit why the time on the stove didn't match the real time, and I was explaining that I was tracking the time since the last power outage.
I didn't have to wait long, Labour Day, an hour after she's left there's a power outage, just long enough to close all the restaurants and cafes, any excuse would do really, drive the tourists out of Nelson, but our restaurant isn’t closing, we’re the only show in town and sure-enough summer goes out with a bang. I might miss the cash but I'll love the peace of mind. I really got to get out of this industry, there's gotta be another way to make money...
Road Trip to Quebec & The Gaspé Peninsula
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The daughter, the last month off on a road trip with tree-planter buddies to Quebec, Montreal, the Gaspé Peninsula, she had a wonderful time. She's passing through Nelson on her way back to Nanaimo. And she's wondering why she didn't make the impression that she makes here, and I'm explaining to her the benefits of a classical education, why it's important to be able to recognize a 100 different artists, Renoir, Chagall, etc, why she needs to read more, why - in a fine French restaurant her anglicized pronunciation of "Fois Gras" and "Cote Du Rhone" might raise some eyebrows, what the label of a bottle of wine tells you, the properties of grapes, varietals, regions, why they like to see wine in a wine glass and not a beer mug (and why "Yum Yum" is not an approved adjective to describe a wine), how to taste, etc, etc.
Finally she’s realizing that all the time spent amongst the infidels with her mom did not prepare her for the world she wants to be a part of and maybe more Pa would have been good in her diet..
Thursday last, Balfour Meditations
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Had to get out of Nelson, this town gets claustrophobic. So I grab the bus out to Balfour, an hour on the beach scouring, nothing found, not even a flake, water’s still too high, I need rain, the lake level to drop, no further trips until November. Waiting for the bus back I revisit the old restaurant, new restaurant, they’ve about a dozen tables, still sticking to mostly reduced hours, 5 servers, a bartender to pull beer and serve wine, I ask what’s up, there’s no good explanation, they’re closed holiday Monday….all these staff and for a moment I feel a twinge of envy, one server assures me that despite the number of staff they’re all making great money, she quotes an improbable sum, I look around, do the mathemagic, it’s seems damned unlikely they’re coming close to those numbers, how are they even paying them all? But the vibe is good, everyone relaxed, I've never seen it like that, and given the stress my job’s been the last few weeks (every night, slammed, run off your feet,) it's seems like a chill change of pace. Too late in the season to consider the change in scenery, another few weeks and this place will be empty, they’ll be overstaffed with one server, it’s a little bit bougie for Balfour, the prices, atmosphere, so I'll be curious to pop in again in November and where they're at...
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