It's FESTIVAL TIME

13 Jul 17
19:45 hrs

     Yes, it's Festival Time. Specifically, The Vancouver Island Musicfest. Are you going? I bloody well hope so.

     The three main headliners are: The Bare Naked Ladies, Bruce Cockburn and someone else. There will be a score of minor acts, food and craft vendors and loads of people to watch, which is just as much fun as the musical acts. My Lobster is currently volunteering with the vendor crew and they were quite impressed with her marshaling skills. It stands to reason as she marshalls the Travelling Wayward Inn and is so good at it I would put her out on a flight line any day.

     The paving in the Valley is still on going. Anderton and now Ryan Road. The work on the bridge over the Tsolum River is accelerating. I don't know when the spans will go in but it should be soon. Of course the approaches will have to be done too. And it looks as if it will be much wider.

     I'm sure you are aware of the forest fire situation here on the Left Coast. Last week the Nicola  and Cariboo regions exploded. There are currently some 200 fires with 14,000 people evacuated north and south of the fire zone to two major cities. I am pretty sure that all of these fires are natural in their cause. Lightening started well over 150 of them. But just yesterday there was a brush fire alongside the Sooke highway. By the time it was extinguished a house was lost. The owners had lived there for forty years and carried no insurance.

     What can I say?

     Now that fire was probably caused by a butt Tossed out a window. It's an offence to do so and it was reported today that another moron did the very same thing in front of a constable. The result? A $567 fine. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

     I can see that the grounds for the new FWSAR training building has been mapped out. It's either that or the craziest croquet field I've ever seen.

15 Jul 17
15:25 hrs

     It's Day Two of Musicfest and those in attendance reminds me of an old Cher song: Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves. It's as if every whackadoo in the Valley and beyond has decide to camp out at Musicfest. Mind you if ypu are a people watcher put on your shades and have at it. Surely, living in the Comox Valley is like living in a bowl of Granola.  What ain't fruits and nuts are flakes!

     Tonight is Bruce Cockburn followed by some Scottish act, The Haggis Tribe or something like that.

18:00 hrs

     Rita Coolidge is on stage. She was saying she attended Florida State University when folk music came out. That makes her older than the hills. My Lobster says she wouldn't be too old for me to date. I think that was a dig at my long distant past.

     As I had said before there are as many different people at Musicfest as there are people and in all states of dress or undress as it were. Hats, no hats, kilts, skirts, shirts that make statements and shirts that do not leave much to the imagination. You can see it all. But do yourself a favour and... wear sunglasses for obvious reasons.

     More tomorrow.