March 16th

“Mercury Forecast Edmonton -3 degrees, Calgary 6 degrees, Mesa 34 degrees”

Last cool day for at least 5 days as we hit over 100 and up to 107 degrees on Friday.

Jackie was out for her walk around 8am it was already 22 degrees.

I readied most things for our 9th Annual Wiener year end party tonight. Jackie was going to do a lot of different things to finalize all of this.

Then off to golf. It was just beautiful out. We had some great scores today unfortunately I wasn’t one of them. I was trying so hard to hold it straight I pulled everything left all day. But I still won money and am second on the money list for March. So a great day.

This is the 9th year we have had a wiener roast going away get together. This year we had Ron & Bonnie, Ron & Sheila, Tom & Raymone, Dick & Michelle, Larry & Jackie, Sandy & Barb, Bob & Ellen, Arnold, Barry, and Kirk.

A fun time burning hot dogs in the fires. Everyone brought enough food and good food that everyone was stuffed.

Over 30 degrees still at 8 pm. No one needed even a light jacket. I hope everyone had a good time as it is fun getting everyone together along with their spouses.

Thought of the Day

You don’t meet people by accident.

March 17th

“Mercury Forecast Edmonton 11 degrees, Calgary 17 degrees, Mesa 36 degrees”

St Patty’s Day

As i said five days in a row of 100 degrees. They are saying 97 degrees today but everyday they are a few degrees off the forecast. I will say it is starting to get just a little too warm outside as you sit and the air is heavy with the warmth.

First time in a long time where the smoke got to my lungs from the campfire. Last night my nose was plugged and lungs felt heavy. Bad timing as Jackie at the same time wanted the temperature raised in the house as she thought it was too cool. This from a lady that sweats at night. LOL I didn’t sleep very well and funny enough this morning when Jackie went to Yogi I fell asleep and did not wake up till 9am.

Rushed and got ready for St Patty’s Day. Starting at 10am is the annual parade. Just a comment. You set a parade route, you publish a route and then you change it without notice. Shouldn’t be that hard to get correct. We set up our chairs and waited for the parade. Then Jackie sees it coming down main street which is supposed to be the ending street. We rush to the other end of the block to set up to catch it. Lots of entries and lots of great decorations.

Also on today is music on main. The band today was awesome. They should be a concert band. Loads of people out watching them.

Add in a great car show in the hall parking lot. So many beautiful cars. Made me sad I didn’t pull the trigger on the 32 Ford that Alan and I flew down to Phoenix to buy quite a few years ago. There were three of them in this show. Love the cars looks. Some great Tri-5 cars, a few 1964 Impalas, but very very odd no 1967 Camaro’s. Nice to live in a place where you can drive these types of cars year round.

One of the 32 Deuces had a engine that confused me. It’s owner wasn’t around. The water system between the block and rad was weird. But it is labelled a Ford and the only Ford “Hemi” that I know of was a engine called a 427 Cammer. It had a over head cam and semi hemi heads but what was confusing all Fords had a front distributor. These engine had none and the plug wires ran thru the cowl. Now modern engines like the LS do not use traditional distributors but this engine was just odd. I know they make a conversion kit to go back to the traditional easy to adjust distributor.

Whenever pulling a Chevy engine evitability the issue was always the distributor against the firewall. A great selection of cars though.