The other day a bear mangled our neighbour’s compost bin, then walked over to our backyard. The problem is, it went out a different way than it came in.  

The video below shows where I’ve hung my hat for the last 16 years. It’s a terrific place. Way too many Canucks fans but great anyway. Powell River sits at the top of the Sunshine Coast, 120 kilometres north of Vancouver, with the Strait of Georgia, also known as the Salish Sea, also known as part [...]

I thought we might hear an announcement of a new Habs coach today but it hasn’t happened. I don’t know why I thought it would be today. Maybe I was just trying to will it. So I figured I’d take a picture of something and babble on about it, but when I tried, I found the batteries in [...]

For a short while in the late 1990′s my buddy and I owned a little sports bar in Powell River, and although it was a struggle, we were proud of it. At least we were proud of it when we weren’t losing our minds. It all began when I was living in Calgary and happened to [...]

Travellers in London and Paris weren’t the only ones held hostage by Mother Nature lately. High winds forced the ferry that delivers folks back and forth between Vancouver Island and Powell River to tie up until it was safe to sail, thus stranding people trying to get home for Christmas. It was a mess. I know [...]

Hobo’s comment in the comments section of  Wouldn’t a Beer Go Good Here about moonshine we made has brought back a flood of memories. And it makes me wonder why about a dozen of us aren’t dead now. Or brain dead. It was in Powell River in 1970 in a smelly old shack we called home, [...]

I live in Powell River, have for 15 years, but I was here a couple of times before, the first for just a year in 1970. At that time a friend had called me when I was in Orillia and said it’s so beautiful you have to get out here. So I did. Then more Orillians came. Then more. [...]

I suppose monkey trees aren’t tremendously common. I’d never seen one until I came to Powell River, and I thought they were cool, so we bought a little one about a foot tall. Now, three years later, it’s nine feet and is still fairly young. So I’m expecting my monkey tree to be a towering defenceman. [...]

I found this old 1959 Orilla bicycle licence on eBay recently and I knew I needed it. I needed it because I would’ve had one of these for my bike way back then, and who knows, maybe it’s mine! In 1959, there were about 15,000 people in Orillia. Maybe 5000 of these were kids, and [...]

 It’s the game I looked for when the schedule was released last year. Sunday night, February 15th in Vancouver, when the Habs visit. Where I live, in Powell River, up the coast from Vancouver, cars fly Canucks flags from their car windows and antennas. People wear their Canucks sweaters. The Canucks are the team people want to [...]