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Warning Notice concerning the Annual American Invasion of 2013

General Discussion
#1

Those attending may just want to make alternative arrangements after Mrs tac has told me to attend this year’s invasion.

She’ll be whooping it up on her annual sun-fix with the other part of the family, acting as enabler to our daughter [a wheelchair-user] and our granddaughter - decidedly NOT a wheelchair-user - in Tenerife. Seems that the only time they can all make it together - school term and so on, is about the same week as the invasion.

Sigh.

So it seems that me and the duck/chicken/vulture will be there after all.

Sorry 'bout that, eh?

I might be pursuaded to stay away, but only on receipt of a large amount of folding stuff, and I don’t mean soft ice-cream.

tac

PS - if anybody needs any only-from England train-type stuff, it might make having me there a less onerous to bear. In any event, we can always hide around the corner and keep quiet.

#2

Ottawa?..Tenerife?..Ottawa?..Tenerife?..Ottawa?..Tenerife?..OTTAWA!

OTTAWA??? …Are you sure about this, Tac? :cool:

#3

Beach or Ottawa? Ottawa hands down…everytime…

#4

John - It’s a no-brainer for me. I’ve lived and worked in Ottawa all year round - in fact, it’s our favourite town, being pretty flat for pushing a wheelchair around, 'sides, my family lives just down the road aways.

I would rather have boiling mercury poured into my stapled-open eyeballs than go to Tenerife, or anyplace like it. Living and working in Japan for almost eight years was incredibly hard for me. Y’see, ‘Popsicle’ is my middle name - me and heat do not go together and that’s for sure.

@Bart - I’m so glad you see things from MY perspective. There are two places on earth where my heart is content - one is any place in Canada and the other is the NWP from Western Alberta to the ocean, above and below the 48th.

tac

#5

Get me to tell ya about my LAST two trips too the Beach…(one was a honeymoon and involved a stay in ICU…) ang you’ll know why I hate The Beach

#6

Of course, Ig is certainly welcome, but if you tag along, we may put up with ya…:wink:

#7

Well, this adds a new twist. Are you planning to venture into “the States” for the additional adventure at FLLS? Just thinking about Ig and Customs, both coming and going. Don’t ride with Ken, he gets in enough trouble.

#8

Sounds like it just might be a rather “Lively” Invasion, this year…!!

#9

Yes it does Fred. Since Ig will be attending all the more reason for Rooster to show up as well. Two feathered species meeting each other and playing with trains together. :slight_smile:

#10
Ric Golding said:
Well, this adds a new twist. Are you planning to venture into "the States" for the additional adventure at FLLS? Just thinking about Ig and Customs, both coming and going. Don't ride with Ken, he gets in enough trouble.
Actually, ig takes me with him every time we go to Oregon, which is once a year for about a month. FLLS sounds a plan, too, if I can hitch a ride with some generous, warm-hearted and open-handed soul....[hint hint].

tac

#11
tac said:
Ric Golding said:
Well, this adds a new twist. Are you planning to venture into "the States" for the additional adventure at FLLS? Just thinking about Ig and Customs, both coming and going. Don't ride with Ken, he gets in enough trouble.
Actually, ig takes me with him every time we go to Oregon, which is once a year for about a month. FLLS sounds a plan, too, if I can hitch a ride with some generous, warm-hearted and open-handed soul....[hint hint].

tac


Uh, don’t listen to Ric. I only have trouble getting INTO Canada. And with Fred along last year to grease the skids, we slid right back into the US. And your welcome to keep me and Fred company on the trip down.

#12

Ken, that’s fine, thanks indeed. Just don’t ask the vulture to sing. You’ll be sorry if you do. I’ll bring a selction of passports.

Best

tac

#13

I wonder what will happen if that “Randy Bird” from BC decides to drop in too…I guess we will need more bird houses to house them in…!!!

#14

Wow, I start going to the invasion again and this happens. I must not live right or something.

#15
Bob McCown said:
Wow, I start going to the invasion again and this happens. I must not live right or something.
I don't know about that. Some of us think you finally started living right again, once you started coming back. you know, there is a life after children. And it really gets better when they have some childrn of their own. Grandparents get to heap revenge on their children with the influence they instill in the next generation and then you just send them back home. Model Railroading is a perfect vehicle. ;-)
#16
Ric Golding said:
Bob McCown said:
Wow, I start going to the invasion again and this happens. I must not live right or something.
I don't know about that. Some of us think you finally started living right again, once you started coming back. you know, there is a life after children. And it really gets better when they have some childrn of their own. Grandparents get to heap revenge on their children with the influence they instill in the next generation and then you just send them back home. Model Railroading is a perfect vehicle. ;-)
Yeah, we get to deprogram the grandkids. :D
#17

Mr Bob - does that mean that you’d rather do without my company? Not a big deal, with the $$$ I save by not going to the Invasion I can maybe fill up my gas tank a couple of times and buy a loaf.

tac

#18

Tac, spend the money. There are those that look forward to seeing you again. https://picasaweb.google.com/vtgrsociety/AmericanInvasion2009TACAndIgVisitFromUK?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCJiJ7P7skYKXJA&feat=directlink

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-R5ryKu7vJek/TtrVOXDqrfI/AAAAAAAADzg/kA3L4jYkHpY/s640/IMG_0668.JPG)

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Day 1 from way back then:http://lyonvalleynorthern.blogspot.com/2009_07_01_archive.html

#19
Don Howard said:
[url]http://lyonvalleynorthern.blogspot.com/2009_07_01_archive.html[/url]
Don, thanks for posting that link to the Lyon Valley Archives - it has allowed me to put faces to some of the names I've been getting to know around here over the past year.

And thanks also to Chris (I presume) for posting all those pix on his site; it seems to be an excellent record.

Trusting that Highway 7 will be open all the way up there - the natives have been restless lately - I’m looking forward to meeting everybody in Ottawa this July, God willing… :cool:

#20

Highway 7 is nice road to travel between Toronto and Ottawa. Leave some time to stop in Havelock and watch CP crash hoppers around. The whole town reverberates with the noise.

BTW: My last time out I was disappointed to find the Silver Lake Restaurant was closed.