The loggers book which I'm presently reading plays in the Ontario area. Sawmills, loggers' camps, haulage of the logs, fights with the government for cutting rights for the timber. It's called "White Water", referring to floating logs in rough swirly waters. A very good book, also on human relationship, economics - and yes: the Canadian bush. Greetings.
There you are, in a tropical paradise like Gran Canaria, and you're reading a book about life in the wilds of the Great White North! "Whazzamattaforyou?"
I had an uncle who was the head saw filer at a hardwood flooring mill many years ago. That was quite the operation. Back then, most of the mill's machines were driven by a big system of belts and pulleys underneath the main floor, which made it quite noisy. And it was something to see.
Ha ha! You're acting like the characters in the book! I feel at home in the bush, after Reading all the stories! Please google "Kathrene Pinkerton" and "Robert Pinkerton". Yes, I'm a madman, indeed, under my palm trees, dreaming of the Canadian loggers, trappers, hunters. And Windigooooos!!! Take care my friend. I'm sending some sunrays, got plenty of them here. Until Monday, when it's back to them mooho critters, them damned shitters. I gotta earn a living see? But I'll return to GC in Feb!
If you'd like to see some big trees here in British Columbia, on our Vancouver Island, there's a park left to us by one of our old-timer logger barons of the past, and to look at some pictures of it, go onto Google, and select 'Images' from the upper left, and then in the search box, type Cathedral Grove Vancouver Island. You'll see some really big trees. (Enjoy!)
Here's four more searches you can do in Google's Images, for a look at the scenery in some of Ontario's Provincial Parks:-
Temagami, Ontario Algonquin Provincial Park French River Provincial Park Lake Superior Provincial Park
I grew up in a little town about 45 miles north of Temagami, and a couple of the hydro-electric plants I worked in were located near Lake Superior Provincial Park. Enjoy your armchair tour!
Thank you Ray. I'll do some researching on my laptop with it's lager screen when I'm back in Germany. Actual snow conditions at the place near Dortmund: fairly good conditions. Actual snow conditions in Gran Canaria: Hahahaaaahaaa!!!
Sorry for the typos: typing on the small touch screen keyboard of my iPod requires all the skills of a watchmaker. And Dortmund is 50 km west of the place where I live when I'm in Germany. It's a big city, easier to find on the map than the smaller town where i actually live. Its name is Soest. You might google a bit. Take care my friend.
You're doing very well if you're doing all this on an iPod. Those smaller gadgets are cute and fun for the younger people, but for someone my age, it would be more pain than pleasure. I like this nice big keyboard, and the 22-inch screen. At 77, I need all the help I can get.
Don't forget to take some pictures of the Gran Canaria wild life!
You get used to fumbling your way through the iPod maze - its greatest advantage is its handyness: easily handled along with all the other luggage of the traveler, with all the given functions of a multimedia computer. My dream is an iPhone so I could have multimedia access from anywhere over the cell net
The loggers book which I'm presently reading plays in the Ontario area. Sawmills, loggers' camps, haulage of the logs, fights with the government for cutting rights for the timber. It's called "White Water", referring to floating logs in rough swirly waters. A very good book, also on human relationship, economics - and yes: the Canadian bush.
ReplyDeleteGreetings.
There you are, in a tropical paradise like Gran Canaria, and you're reading a book about life in the wilds of the Great White North!
ReplyDelete"Whazzamattaforyou?"
I had an uncle who was the head saw filer at a hardwood flooring mill many years ago. That was quite the operation. Back then, most of the mill's machines were driven by a big system of belts and pulleys underneath the main floor, which made it quite noisy.
And it was something to see.
Ha ha! You're acting like the characters in the book! I feel at home in the bush, after Reading all the stories!
ReplyDeletePlease google "Kathrene Pinkerton" and "Robert Pinkerton".
Yes, I'm a madman, indeed, under my palm trees, dreaming of the Canadian loggers, trappers, hunters. And Windigooooos!!!
Take care my friend. I'm sending some sunrays, got plenty of them here. Until Monday, when it's back to them mooho critters, them damned shitters. I gotta earn a living see? But I'll return to GC in Feb!
If you'd like to see some big trees here in British Columbia, on our
ReplyDeleteVancouver Island, there's a park left to us by one of our old-timer logger barons of the past, and to look at some pictures of it, go onto Google, and select 'Images' from the upper left, and then in the search box, type Cathedral Grove Vancouver Island. You'll see some really big trees. (Enjoy!)
Thank you kindly, Ray.
ReplyDeleteHere's four more searches you can do in Google's Images, for a look at the scenery in some of Ontario's Provincial Parks:-
ReplyDeleteTemagami, Ontario
Algonquin Provincial Park
French River Provincial Park
Lake Superior Provincial Park
I grew up in a little town about 45 miles north of Temagami, and a couple of the hydro-electric plants I worked in were located near Lake Superior Provincial Park.
Enjoy your armchair tour!
Thank you Ray. I'll do some researching on my laptop with it's lager screen when I'm back in Germany.
ReplyDeleteActual snow conditions at the place near Dortmund: fairly good conditions.
Actual snow conditions in Gran Canaria: Hahahaaaahaaa!!!
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ReplyDeleteSorry for the typos: typing on the small touch screen keyboard of my iPod requires all the skills of a watchmaker.
ReplyDeleteAnd Dortmund is 50 km west of the place where I live when I'm in Germany. It's a big city, easier to find on the map than the smaller town where i actually live. Its name is Soest. You might google a bit.
Take care my friend.
You're doing very well if you're doing all this on an iPod. Those smaller gadgets are cute and fun for the younger people, but for someone my age, it would be more pain than pleasure. I like this nice big keyboard, and the 22-inch screen. At 77, I need all the help I can get.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget to take some pictures of the Gran Canaria wild life!
You get used to fumbling your way through the iPod maze - its greatest advantage is its handyness: easily handled along with all the other luggage of the traveler, with all the given functions of a multimedia computer. My dream is an iPhone so I could have multimedia access from anywhere over the cell net
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