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Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!
I’m too pooped tonight to finish the eclipse post, so I’m punting it to Tuesday. There’s lots of great shots, but it’s getting late and I want to do it right.
There will be pictures Monday.
The year after my father died, I ended up working all day Monday (Labor Day) because the person who’d been given the website to maintain screwed it up 10 ways to Sunday. This was the old days – notepad was the editor, Netscape the client, on a 56k modem that usually got half that due to crappy copper phone lines.
I joked to my mom, “I’m celebrating Labor Day by working!”, and she assured me that my father had made that joke more than once. The next day, the boss fired me, and made it personal with comments like, “I don’t know what your girlfriend and her son will say”. I’m like, “They’ll say you’re a prick, even more so for saying that!”. What a shit. At least I knew enough to demand all my owed wages within 8 business hours! He and his company accountant wife weren’t too pleased having to write me a check on the spot, but it was the tiniest bit of satisfaction.
Have a great day and holiday weekend, everyone!
Today, pictures from valued commenter catbirdman.
I’m up in British Columbia with my two boys, aged 10 and almost-9, on our traditional late-summer trek. We spent 3 days in Whistler (creekside) and are now staying in Richmond, on the outskirts of what we’re calling “Mancouver.” Zip-lining was a big highlight, up in Whistler, and down here we’ve enjoyed the TELUS science museum, a big swim park (WaterMania), laser tag, and trampoline park. The food is great — in Steveston we got oysters and chips, and brought home a delicious apple pie and vanilla gelato. Yesterday we ate about 4 pounds of blueberries, sold from many roadside stands around here. Best we’ve ever tasted! Today we’ll go to sprawling Stanley Park, on the north side of Vancouver.
Dylan and Grant, Ziplining
Whistler Mountain, BC.
All geared up and ready to go — we all loved ziplining!
Post-ziplining
Whistler Mountain, BC.
The guys enjoying the killer views around Whistler.
Blueberries
Richmond, BC.
These things are too good!
Blue-eyed Darner
Richmond, BC.
One of relatively few dragonflies I’ve seen perched — not that I’ve tried all that hard. The kids aren’t really into nature that much, unfortunately!
Dylan at TELUS
Vancouver, BC.
Dylan looking proud after we solved one of the many puzzles set out to test our mettle at TELUS.
Grant at trampoline park
Richmond, BC.
Grant’s a skateboarder, so he enjoyed the half-pipe setup at the trampoline place.
Dylan on trampoline
Richmond, BC.
D really loves jumping around!
Thank you so much catbirdman, do send us more when you can.
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SiubhanDuinne
Dylan and Grant are. adorable. Love their enthusiasm!
SiubhanDuinne
Dylan and Grant are adorable. Love their enthusiasm!
OzarkHillbilly
Kids and fun are inseparable. Almost.
Betty Cracker
Handsome lads, Catbirdman!
Alain, what a jerk your ex-boss was! Glad you had a come-back ready for that inexcusable question.
raven
Look at them dudes!
Mary G
Very handsome young men there.
Alain the site fixer
@Betty Cracker: yeah, he liked to fire people and make them suffer. He waited for weeks for a coworker to buy a new house (her first), then boom. Another, he waited until he’d taken a trip of a lifetime, incurring lots of debt. Little man that liked to make others hurt. Phoeey on him!
OzarkHillbilly
@Alain the site fixer:
I had one like that. Laid me off when I asked for a day here and there to help take care of my Alzheimered father and my mother after her open heart surgery.
My foreman handed me my layoff check and said, “Don’t worry, you’ll be back in a couple weeks.”
“No, I won’t.” was my reply.
Worked out for the best. There was no way I could have worked and taken care of my parents.
JPL
What great fun!
MomSense
Action kids! Handsome and cool boys who know wild blueberries are the best.
satby
Looks like those handsome boys are having a lot of fun! Great pics!
As for blueberries, I’m deciding today whether I should make traditional blueberry jam or blueberry lemonade jam. Leaning toward blueberry-lemonade.
rikyrah
That trip looks like fun
MomSense
@satby:
Blueberries and lemon are delicious together. I always put fresh lemon juice and zest in my pies.
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
Kiddos look like they’re having a blast! A very cool dragonfly also, too.
J R in WV
Nice set of photos to take us into the weekend.
Long slow rain here starting late last night and just starting to taper off.
Was shocked to have internet connectivity this morning, but there it was, not ever remarkably slow. Supposed to clear up by Sunday IIRC>.
You guys have fun in NYC, y’all hear me?!!! I’m jealous, we love NYC, the clubs, museums, quirky shops… one rainy day I found a shop dealing in precolumbian ceramics. Not busy, go figure, and the elderly couple spent the afternoon educating me.
At one point a Russian guy came in with a big black briefcase, had a bunch of stuff to sell, they knew him, took a polite look, politely declined. It was genuine, but not attractive. They liked to carry beautiful artifacts, well documented, which Russian guy never really had.
Like I said, educational ! Love to visit the big city.
RyanG
It’s such a weird sensation to check a West Virginia blog and see pictures of familiar places. Particularly so when it’s the exact same trampoline that I’ve carried broken and battered people off of…
eclare
Cute pictures!
gaderson
Hey, anybody else with Safari on a Mac getting the stupid ad (currently Acura) autoplay? It even shows ‘mute’ icon, but, keeps playing — actually right now!!! So, I’ve been avoiding the whole site on my Mac — seems ok on Chrome on my Mac, and at the Windows machine at work (or at least the ‘mute’ stays on). Looks like I’ll need to enable the ‘stop autoplay’ in the special menu.
Been happening for a few weeks now, never had any trouble before, and at replays every so often too (at least I can mute from the tab icon).