Category: General

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…

One of the many little challenges of micro-hydro is dealing with nature. When everything is humming right along, you don’t even think about it, but, when the forecast is for -8C overnight, suddenly it becomes the only thing. We had an “atmospheric river” that blasted through here a couple of years ago, and I’m still…

It just so happened that my brother-in-law, Kenny, was in town. I couldn’t wait to tell him about what was happening. I showed him the sketch I’d made and told him that my buddies Kenworth would be perfect. He looked at me and said, “That’ll sure have class, eh?” Light bulb! I exclaimed, “That’s it!…

Like I said in my last post, the shock of what I thought was happening got to me. I had to sit down and contemplate the conversation I’d just had with Anne. Did what she said mean what I thought it did? Was I just imagining it? Was I losing my mind? All these thoughts,…

This was it, the big day had finally arrived, my old Kenworth was going to turn black. I’d kind of grown accustomed to the primer grey but it wasn’t going to be grey for much longer. A little bit more sanding, and checking all of the masking, and it was time. Bill the body man…

This was it, the big weekend when my 7 year long restoration project was about to be painted. I got to the body shop around noon, and there was still a lot of prep work to be done. First things first though, could I get it started after it had been sitting for almost a…