JIMBORED DOES B&B ON SKYE IN SCOTLAND 2000
My next story, from our time in Scotland, was stirred up from the recesses, by recollections of our niece’s visit. As I have stated earlier, my niece Michy and her beau Jonny had come in search of their roots. It…
SCOTLAND AND THE MANY FACES OF JIMBORED
In this post, I am going to reflect on how some people perceived me, during our time in Scotland. Some of their observations were sobering to me, from the viewpoint of my own self image. I titled this one, the…
A QUEST FOR THE HEALD TARTAN – SCOTLAND 1998
I will now leave, the memories of our brief sojourn in Canada behind, and move on to our time in Scotland. We had been lucky enough to return to Canada in the mid ’90’s, to provide our girls some grounding…
SIGHTING OF BIGFOOT OR MAYBE SASQUATCH, COULD’A BEEN ELVIS
My next memory, although vague, is worth documenting. It took place in the early 70’s during one of the wilder times in my life. The event, that created this memory, is a little hard to fully believe. It involved me…
ROPING IN MEMORIES OF MY PAST AS THEY STAMPEDE THRU MY MIND
This next post, will break away from of our time in Calgary, and drift back to visions, of earlier times. Because of the fragile state of my mind, I must grasp and write down memories as they thunder past me.…
DUCK HUNTING IN LAS VEGAS WITH UNCLE J – 1996
This next story is not one that I am proud of, and in many ways was disturbing. However, not all of my experiences were about love and laughter. Sometimes I had real world, down to earth normal traumas to deal…
A LITTLE BEAVER, A VAGABOND, THE RACE AND WHITEWATER – ALBERTA 1994
In one of the earlier articles, about our time in Calgary, I briefly described a different type of business venture, that I became involved in. We set up a company that designed, manufactured and marketed an inflatable, personal watercraft. The…
THIS BLOG IS ONE YEAR OLD! AMAZING, IMPOSSIBLE, YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME
HAHAHAHAHAHA, I bet you didn’t think I’d be here a year, from when I started this blog. I am though! Beginning Last April, I was quarantined in our house by ol’ Bubbaloo, Ange, Ron, JMW, and D2. Basically they ganged…
THE WILD GAS FIELDS OF ALBERTA 1997
This next post is from a time, while I was still trying to run my own business, in Calgary. It had been a whirlwind of work for the last 3 years. The contracts I received, had kept my butt overseas,…
1995-1996 THAILAND & READY TO TAKE ON THE WORLD SINGLE HANDED
Although, often distracted, I am trying to work my way thru memories of my life, in a somewhat chronological order. In this Post, I am going to describe one of the jobs I took on, while starting a business, in…
