Jon Los

Author: Jon Los

  • We Were Almost There

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    Things were humming right along. The motorhome project was out of my hands and being taken care of. I was hauling containers around southern BC and Washington making decent money. And I was lonely. We used to have a paper called The Buy & Sell. I guess we still do but it’s all online now.…

  • You’re Gonna Be Rich!

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    One of the hardest things I had to face while building the motorhome was my friends who became envious of my good fortune. My good friend, Bill, actually said to me, “We can’t be friends anymore because you’re going to be rich”. That shocked me, and broke my heart.I never did have much self confidence.…

  • Nope, It Doesn’t Float

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    I was about two months into the project and had the truck at the place where it was going to be transformed into a motorhome. The boys got right to work and there was nothing else for me to do but wait. I did drop in regularly to give them ideas, check on the progress…

  • The Ministry of The Problem

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    Once upon a time, there was a problem. It was a big problem to the people who were bothered by it.So, a few of the people took their problem to the government, hoping for them to fix it. A meeting was scheduled and there was hope that the problem would soon be rectified. As the…

  • Why Fight It If You Don’t Have To

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    The other day I posted about the upcoming overnight deep freeze and how it was going to force me to stay up all night scraping frazil ice off the intake. So what did I do? I threw a piece of plywood over the Coanda screen to stop the water from getting into the penstock, and…

  • The Summer Kitchen

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    A little history…In 1996 I landed on the side of a mountain in Southwest BC, not by choice but by circumstance, like pretty much everyone else up there. The one thing we had in common was that life had thrown us all a curveball. Some were Christians, some were running from their past, and some…

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