OK, starting new 2009-2010 winter blog

Here it is November the 10th, 2009, and we are getting ready to head south once again. We have had a great summer here in Alberta. Just spent a lot of time relaxing and enjoying our home in High River. Did about 3 short week long trips in ELTORO during the summer. Twice down to Pincher Creek to visit our kids and once to Waterton, with a day trip into Glacier Park and over the "Going to the Sun" highway. And, oh yes, once out west of Turner Valley to Blue Rock campground for a week long primitive sojorn. The last month has been rather hectic, as my financial advisor, Denice, took a well deserved vacation in England with her sister and another friend. Denice, has always wanted to go and see some castles and see some of the real old stuff.
If that is all she wanted all she had to do was look at me, as I am some of the really old stuff.

Anyway, if she was going to wait for me to take her to England, she would have had to wait a long time, as I have no desire. While she was gone, our son Ross, decided that he could no longer affort the basement suite that he was living in, so we decided to buy him a Mobile home close to where he works at the Sears Warehouse in Calgary. So, the long and short of it, Dad had to step in with some assistance, and then to move him. God, how I hate moving!!! The big stuff is easy. A few loads of furniture, and its done. But the small things a person collects over the years. Seems it never ends. Load after load after load. Finally finished on Sunday. His mobile home is 30 years old. Originally 12' x 54', but with a 10' x 40' well constructed add-on on one side, as well as a nice deck and a garden shed for all his landscaping equipment. He should be happy now!!
So now we are rushing around trying to get all the final arrangement done before we leave this fall. Put phone, internet, and cell phone on "Vacation Disconnect", get all insurances, and ongoing bills organized for auto payment, vehicles (TOADONE and ELTORO) serviced and ready for a long vacation ahead, medicals, pills, and all of that stuff figured out, etc, etc, etc. I'm sure you all know what I mean!!
Plan on leaving as early as Friday, or Saturday. Heading down across the border at Coutts and on to Shelby, then turn east on US #2 across Montana and North Dakota to Grand Forks, then turn south down to Minneapolis, and down the Mississippi on the Great River Road to near St Louis somewhere, then likely over into Kentucky/Tennessee. From there everything is just cast in jello. Whatever road look appealing, that is the way we will go. Hope to be somewhere in Texas in mid January, and spend a couple of months there, between Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, before returning home in the spring. This year we are going to try for 6 months away. Not sure how that will work out!! May have to fly home for Christmas, for a break, but we'll see!!
This year, I have decided not to do a daily "Blog" as what we eat at each meal, gets to be rather "Old Hat", so will try to update at least once a week, to keep all informed of our whereabouts, and activities. Sometimes, I may do it more often, if we have interesting things to report.
So now follow along, and do send comments as you see fit. We do love to hear any news from home.