Grab Bag for June

One of the difficulties with having surgery is that you have time that you need to recover, this of often determined by people who have lots of letters after their names indicating various extensive medical training. You don't always recover in one shot, and some things your capable of, before others. Currently I can't lift more then about 20lbs, at work we need to be able to lift 70lbs, according to the surgeon, that will take another month. So while it seems that I can do most things, lifting is not one of them, so I continue to be off work. Unfortunately when your off work, you tend to eat more then you should and you put on a few pounds. I am starting back on bike riding, and starting to build up distance.

Many times in the news media when we hear of things like Tornadoes we think it happens in places like Oklahoma and Texas, while they do happen there, a good section of Western Quebec, pretty much all of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta are prone to the kinds of severe thunderstorms that can spawn Tornadoes, downbursts, microbursts, direchos and other interesting and damaging weather. The media often do not know that there is actually a warning system in place that covers much of the prone areas. It's one of the best kept secrets in the country, it's called weather radio. If you want to be safe in such storms, you should purchase a weather radio monitoring receiver. Canada and the US use similar systems. They are available from radio speciality shops, and can be placed in alarm mode so that you can be notified of such weather.

The new bike seems to be working well, it does not have bottle cage mounts, so I am working on coming up with something. I have two methods of going about this, plan A didn't work so well, neither did plan B, so I have plan C and will try implementing it, later on. Thinking about plan D at the moment, but it requires some materials, such as some metal strapping and the proper bolts.

I see these guys out again in our neighbourhood, although this photo is from last year, but I have seen them out, it's amazing how quickly they go from a tiny ball of fur to a nearly full size in a few short weeks.