EARLY MEMORIES FROM WALLINGFORD, PA. 1992
We had arrived in Pennsylvania in January 1992 and quickly got into the rhythm of a new place. Deysi immediately had the girls enrolled in schools and they, in turn, immediately started scouting out new friends. Relocation for the three…
ON THE ROAD AGAIN, THIS TIME PHILADELPHIA 1992
I departed for Philadelphia right at the end of 1991 and landed smack in the middle of another project. Again with my employer of many years. Basically since our days in Edmonton in the early 1980’s (with a small break…
WHERE TO NEXT? WE ARE READY TO MOVE ON DEC. 1991
As I said in my last post from Kuwait, I had escaped and was now back in Calgary. The time was late December 1991. From here I will continue my chronology of events in our life, as I now remember…
OTHER RAMBLING MEMORIES OF KUWAIT, OR WERE THEY JUST DREAMS?
As I prepare to leave Kuwait and continue on with my memories of our travel and adventures, I am going to leave you with some ramblings of my feeble mind. I was about to pass over some of these “memories”,…
A TURKEY SHOOT IN KUWAIT – 1991
As I mentioned earlier the group I was assigned to was in charge of rebuilding and restarting the “gathering centres” and “tank farms”. And this post is of a memory of my time spent working on these gathering centres. These…
BEING BEAT WITH THE JAWBONE OF AN ASS – Q8 1991
Some of my most vivid memories are of things that are now pretty mundane and of little consequence, however, at the time they were stuck solidly in my mind and have remained there until this day. These are short snips…
BITE DOWN AND OFF YOU GO TO WORK
Once taken to the worksite offices, the full magnitude of what we were dealing with became a shocking reality. We were in a trailer type office complex, in the middle of 600 wild wells (fires) and about 250 wells that…
YOU WEREN’T SCARED WERE YA – KUWAIT 1991
On my arrived in Kuwait I had no idea of what to expect. Other than the MEMORY. That at each stage of the way. Someone was trying to scare the crap outta me. It worked very well I might add.…
AND ONE DAY THE PHONE RINGS AND THE HOLIDAY ENDS
Oh how much fun can a man have before there is a price to pay? Well I was about to find out. The days were flowing by in a haze of water, food, touring and other fun pastimes. I had…
CAN SOMEONE STOP THE FUN, WE ARE IN HAWAII NEXT
We are off once again. Back into Nadi and on another plane, this time to Hawaii. We were going to have another 10 days there before heading back to Canada and then seeing what my next job might look like.…
