Jimbo Red
Retired on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada after spending 30 years overseas in Engineering, Procurement and Construction. involved in Oil and Gas, Pulp and Paper, Civil, Pipeline, Protective Coatings, Refinery and Chemical as well as participation "onsite" during the firefighting efforts in Kuwait after the war with Iraq. Married 5 children, 4 grandchildren and a boat.
PAPI TAMING THE WILD BEAST Pancho Negro 1979
My story of the day today is again about an occurrence in Peru sometime during the second year of my work there. At this time I was married to Daisy (Deysi in Peruvian). We had a company house in the…
RANTS OR THINGS THAT PISS ME OFF – MODERN DAY MOVIES
Yet another Rant! This one about today’s modern movies. In the “day” movies were made essentially from books that had been published or from stories written specifically for the making of a movie. Each one was individual and different from…
RAMBLING MIND THE GREAT APRIL FOOLS FLOP OF 2020
MY BLOG IS DEAD! After three days of hard blogging, today my Blog is finished. I have been told that my blogging is obsessive, destroying families, leaving those at home without nurture and otherwise disrupting the sanctity of isolation. All…
RAMBLING MIND AM I NOW A GEEK? APRIL 2020 IN MY LAIR
As I mentioned in an earlier post my partner (Bubbaloo) and I have been self isolating for the past 14 days. I did not have any intention of doing that until my Golf Course took away my power cart and…
RANTS THINGS THAT PISS ME OFF HOW MANY CHURCHES
My next biggest Rant will be one that is not going to be very popular with a lot of my readers. However I have been holding it inside for years and I feel I must just let it blossom before…
MEMORY I FEEL FAINT HAVE I CROSSED AN ANGEL JAN. 1978
One very vivid memory of my early times in Peru was at the time of my arrival to our worksite in the Andes Mountains, north and east of the main city of Arequipa, Peru. To arrive at the Canadian encampment,…
IMAGES DEYSI CHRISTENING A TUNNEL IN THE ANDES 1975
This photo taken circa 1975 in the Andes Mountains of Peru and depicts the opening of one of the first tunnels, tunnel 26 near Huambo. Bubbaloo was onsite and pretty much running the show at this time.
MY OPINION MATTERS IS THE CLUTCH FINALLY SLIPPING
The beauty of an aging mind. One man’s opinion. As time goes on, and one realizes that the old clutch might be going and the bands may be slipping, some benefits become apparent. It is as if a new life…
INTO THE YONDER A GYPSY’S DISCOVERY OF PERU
The second story of this journey, is from early January 1978 and tracks my transition from Canada to Peru. I was armed with a brief indoctrination about Peru, the job and what to expect. This from people in the Toronto…
MEMORY DEPARTING INTO THE UNKNOWN CALGARY 1977
This section is a little harder to define than the others. I was trying to find a place where I could add observations, feelings at the time of an event, sights, sounds, smells and concerns. The first one I can…
