I have been offered the day off tomorrow!
I may have to take it as I am not so sure when another opportunity like this will come up again. Yesterday I got out of the "office" at 7, fed by 8, half in the bag 10:30. First time in two weeks I got to bed before tomorrow.
I could partly blame OLN and there Tour de France coverage for that.
Pretty slow on the news front this week, almost completely uneventfull. All of the machines that were in during the last week have taken off but they will be replaced by another fleet this week. Last Saturday we had 7 helicopters here during the day. All making money for the company. Meanwhile poor old Canadian has only 2 and close up their doors at 5pm sharp it seems. Oh well, too bad for them, we know where we can find the pot of gold.
In the category of "What the hell is that thing doing here?" Is this little number:
The photo was pinched from the net because it's pretty hard to get up close to them when they are on the ramp, kind of like when the Swedes showed up a couple of weeks ago; no photos then either. So this particular aircraft showed up a couple of days ago and I could only make out a bit of it and thought that it might have been part of the Red Bull or Quicksilver fleet. So I asked a driver of one of the fuel trucks asking what he knew, the response was predictable. "Some rich American guy, comes up here every year to go fishing on Great Bear Lake". It is amazing what you can find out there on the internet and it is particularly useful on those days when I am a little short on material, came in handy looking for a picture of the plane. A little more digging and I found out that not only is the owner of that plane rich American, he also has a thing for pansies.
Whatever floats your boat.
...Or plane in this case.
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Have you forgotten about us ... your loyal readers Deanoh? What's goin' on up there in the big bad north?
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