Holding pattern routine....

 

Here I am, on what has become my early morning walk routine. The sun is sure coming up later these days. Just look at that tall drink of water!

Digging the fall colors.......

......mixed in with the "not so digging" foggy mornings.

Fellow Teamster peep John, donning the Tigers ball cap, bragging on how nice it is in his hood, Ladner.

I reciprocated with my A's cap, not bragging about my neighbourhood.

Out and about......

.....on this day it was Byrne Creek Park.

I love this pic. It's a very short walk from the Edmonds Sky Train station.

Have gone and watched junior a couple of times tearing up the ice with his rec hockey team.

Ritsue's balcony gardening skills are really paying off this year!

On the way home from the Vancouver International Film Festival, where junior and I watched a documentary about the Stanley Cup riots of 2011, a dark day in Vancouver history.

It's going to take a lot of mushrooms.......

.......to feed this crew on Thanksgiving. Great that bro Skip was able to attend.

Ahhhhh, leftovers. I must say, this toasted ham sandwich, well, I nailed it, just sayin.

Looking north from the balcony, that's a lot of cloud action.

Looking east on the morning of the solar eclipse, that's too much cloud action! (Speaking of action, here we sit. The writer's have settled, but the actor's are still on strike. They get back talking with the producers on Tuesday. C'mon, let's make a deal!

So I have a morbid sense of humor. I love this far side!

Shhhhhhhh! They're talking..........

My new favorite, random, water drops on the bathroom mirror, hey!, I can see myself, pic. (The shhh, they're talking refers to the ongoing SAG/AFTRA actor's strike. They are in talks with the productions as I write this. The writer's came to an agreement last week, hopefully meaning we will all be back to work soon.)

 

Had a chance to cruise down to Olympic Village a couple of Thursdays ago. The before pic.......

.....and the after pic of Science World. What a beautiful night to be out.

The producers at Brightlight Pictures thought getting the Good Doctor cast and crew together for an evening would boost morale. A lot of people have been out of work since April. A great pic with Christina, Brightlight Pictures Shawn and his wife Betty, Paige, Freddie and Chuku. It was nice to see everyone, a much needed group counselling session, lol.

Finally got around to going on one of our favourite local walks, Deer Lake in Burnaby. (The last time we went was in the spring of 2022.)

The old man in me loves the traffic on the boardwalk on this day!

A great spot nestled smack dab in the middle of the Burnaby metropolis.

Ahhhh, so peaceful, good for the soul.

The inner child in Ritsue came out when we found this playground on Saturday.

Lovely weather, lovely sunset view of Mt. Baker. ( I wonder how much longer I'll be able to see it. Those two condos on the left are new, and I'm hearing plenty more are coming, ugh.

Well, I get points for cooking the pancakes, but Ritsue gets the bonus points for presentation!

On the week-end one of the cable channels was showing the movie Watchmen. My goodness, who is that handsome doctor putting the straight jacket on Mothman?

Makes me smile.........

Times up.....

As the writer and actor's strike drags on (146 days and counting), you find things to do that you may or may not of tried to accomplish before. On this day, I actually went out and picked an abundant amount of blackberries, for which I created my new, in my world, famous blackberry pancakes. Yum-yum!

 

The old man in me loves a walk when I'm not bumping into anyone else.

The random, sun bouncing off the windows of the condo tower across from me, pic.

Our last baseball game for this year. A little different, went for the Extreme Katsu Japanese hot dog. It was actually quite a treat, for a hot dog, that is.

The mandatory selfie outside of Nat Bailey Stadium.

It seems to me Wasabi has been winning most of the mascot races these days. I don't ever remember the chopstick twins even coming close!

While we await the outcome of the WGA and SAG/AFTRA strikes, I have had plenty of time to walk about my hood. This is the first time I have seen this kind of fungus among us.

No she wasn't, but she should of been. Ritsue nailed it modelling her Kimono holding a Sapporo beer at the Nikkei Matsuri Festival earlier this month. I would drink it for this picture alone, lol.

Wow, Ritsue's tiny balcony garden is showing big results, just look at those radishes!

Labor day in the Highgate neighborhood where we be residing. Edmonds Park was the venue, so many of the community came out to support all of the unions representing so many workers. Unfortunately the mighty Teamsters I am a part of were not represented.

The out for a walk, selfie, pic.

When Auntie (sis) came to town for a visit we toured around a little bit. On this Saturday we went down to Crab Park in Vancouver. Quite a contrast. You have the North Shore mountains and North Vancouver in the background, the Port of Vancouver on the right, and the homeless tent city in Crab Park on the left.

I bet this homeless encampment is not on the tour itinerary for those folks getting off of that cruise ship.

Not very often the 3 siblings get together, it was long overdue.

Oh ya! Auntie brought us some eggs from her and Unk's chickens!

Without further ado, it was Omelette time! (we also used the fresh pepperoni she also brought us, yum-yum!)

The sun is setting sooner and sooner these fall days (fall?, boy did that ever sneak up on us), which means leaving the house earlier for the evening stroll.

What a lovely picture of Junior and his gal Yani.

The not so random, trucks from the olden days. I saw this pic online on the Berry & Smith Trucking website. I used to work for this company many moons ago, and guess what, I still remember that day and I took that picture. (I was the rookie on the crew, so I was relegated to the "Cornbinder" on the left. (A 1967 International as I recall, could be wrong.)

The extra, nice shot of the moon from the balcony, pic.

Well, they came to an agreement last night. Let's see if the Writer's Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television producers agreement will get us back to filming the Good Doctor again. Fingers crossed.