Summer finally arrived here in New Brunswick after a very cool spring. We usually get about three weeks of unbelievable humid weather in July and early August but not this year. About a week ago it warmed up and temperatures hit the 90's! Global warming has certainly changed our weather in this area. Winters are milder with a lot less snow, which I'm happy about.
This week, I lost a good friend and former boss. Jack was the manager of the radio station I worked at for 22 years. He was an imposint man, over 6 feet tall, always wore a three-piece suit and was highly respected by everyone who ever met or know of him. Besides being a pioneer broadcaster in this country, he was an avid conservationist and worked most of his lifetime trying to protect the Atlantic Salmon stocks. He was stern, but fair and I had the utmost respect for him. He had diabetes for many years and struggled with the complications which accompany it which lead to his death. He was in his 80's and I'll miss his occasional phone calls and hearing that booming voice asking me to do something for him. RIP Jack.
Next week, Aug 2-5th, we're hosting the 12th and final www.furfest.ca event. Jason and I finished work Friday and are on vacation for the next two weeks. We spent one of those weeks doing FurFest, leaving a few days for our own personal holidays. We enjoy hosting FurFest and will miss it a lot, but its time to let it go. What we'll miss the most is the friendly men to come all the way to New Brunswick every year for this "family reunion" type event. We have made some wonderful friends and hope they will still come to visit us, and now we will have time to travel and visit their part of the country. There is still much to do before we pile everything in to the car and move to the hotel for the event, but the most of it is complete. We can't wait to see some of our old friends again and renew friendships and get those warm hugs.
After FurFest, we may be going on a whale watching day-trip in St. Andrews with two of our buddies from New York. We're looking forward to spending time with them. August 12th will be our second wedding anniversary so I'd like to do something special for Jason. We've been together ten years this summer and I love him more and more every day. I'm so happy that we could finally be legally married. I never thought I would see that happen in my lifetime, but ya gotta love Canada! We rock! I get email from friends in the USA who envy us and want to move here. Maybe without George W things will improve.
We have friends from Baltimore in the city for FurFest, who we went to dinner with last night. They are dropping over this afternoon for a visit so its time to get back to FurFest stuff before they arrive.
Diet Update... I reached my goal on June 12th, 6 months on the diet and I lost 77 pounds! I am currently at 217 pounds. Jason and I used to wear each others clothes. We were 2X and almost a 3X in shirts. Now I'm into an XL shirt and we both wear 36" pants and are walking over 3 km at least 2 or 3 times a week!
