It's Been Awhile...

Okay, I've been getting hassled by the two people that actually read my blog that I haven't posted lately.  Of course I had grand plans to write in my blog most every day when I started...but that hasn't been happening.  Really I wasn't planning to write most days but I figured I'd do a fair bit while I'm in camp. So here I am two months since my last post wondering what I'm going to write about.  For starters, this is my first post on my new MacBook.  I'm certainly loving my new Mac.  I've spent hours and hours this week uploading our pictures and organizing them within i-photo.  It's a pretty great program and it would have done most of the organizing for me but I realized that the time and date on our digital camera has been wrong for the past year.  That made for some pretty frustrating evenings changing dates on pictures.  It's all done now and I'm very happy with it all.  I guess the next challenge is going to be organizing my music...

Since I posted last we've had a busy little household of milestones.  A first day of kindergarten, a first day of grade one, a second birthday, a first visit from the Tooth Fairy and a first time on ice skates.  School is going very well for the kids.  It's great to see them enjoying it. For me, school was just what happened before the sports started after the bell rang.  Joni has taken on the huge task of coaching the little kids soccer team...man she's brave! She spent a day in Nanaimo at a coaching clinic and shows up twice a week with a pre-planned practice in hand and a large supply of patience. I try to help when I'm at home but I lack the patience. I just have to remember that they're only little and it's most important that they have fun.

Work has been far busier as of late.  We're back logging full time with four helicopters going flat out at times.  This week I'm doing a shift of flying fallers in Smith Inlet.  It's not as intense as flying logs and it gives me ample time during the day to do things like organize pictures and write blogs.  Flying fallers is not without its challenges though.  This time of year presents many challenges.  The weather on the coast changes faster than you can make a decisions sometimes.  Today we have seen everything from warm sunshine to freezing snow squalls with next to zero visibility.  The shortening days also leave little room for being able to wait out the bad weather if someone is stuck in the fog.  I suspect I'll still have one more shift of logging or fallers before the Christmas shut down.  Training is starting to get under way as well.  It is looking to be a busy New Year with logging projects and completing everyone's annual training and check rides. I really enjoy the training. And I always look forward to some good time off over Christmas.

I am going to try hard to write more regularly. The ideas of what to write are what elude me sometimes. Once I start I enjoy it and seem to have more ideas.  Getting started can be the challenge sometimes.  If there is something you would like me to write about feel free to leave me a comment.  I have thought I should start to delve back into my helicopter career and tell some stories.  I know I have a few. I would also like to write about my children but I'm still trying to wrap my head around how I'm going to do that without opening our family up to some of the nasty people that lurk among the pages of cyberspace.  Somehow the thought of telling 'generic' family stories takes all the warmth and fun out of it for me. I'll put my thinking cap on and I promise to tell a good story before I go home on Tuesday!