Greetings, from sunny Kelowna, BC. Well, USUALLY sunny BC. Because WE are here, the rain clouds have followed us over from Alberta, and it has been raining since our arrival.

I kid you not…

However, it is nice to be back “home”. Not our birthplace per se, but the city we spent considerable time living in, before the current Alberta leg of our travels through Canada. Flying in over the long, beautiful lake, you were instantly reminded that there are probably fish living in there. And they were just as wet as we were.

We had a long day yesterday, getting up around 3 AM to prepare to catch our flight. Mrs. That Dan Guy was very sluggish, needing to be nudged gently into a fully awake state. I, on the other hand, was tremendously alert and vibrant. Almost giddy.

I can’t say the same thing after watching highlights of the two big debates on TV last night. The U.S. vice-presidential debate, and our own leadership debate here in Canada. Unlike the 2-person American version, we had FIVE contenders to lead this country vying for anything that might be of interest to say. For the love of me, why nobody even mentioned hockey once is beyond my reckoning. THAT would have generated some interest.

I won’t pretend to know enough about the U.S. debate, except to say that Palin’s assertion that we need a “Joe-Six Pack”, “hockey mom” running the country did make me wonder if anyone had ever heard of the guy that HAS been ruing the country for the last two terms. OK, he’s not a hockey mom (technically), but Joe Six Pack? He’s a bigger Bubba than Bubba!

Just sayin’…

Chow for now!