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darlicious
Mayor / Maire

Well I got outside with my best friend for a good old bike ride with a general destination of Deer Lake Park. After a couple of wrong turns and a general wander we did find our way to the Burnaby Lake Rowing Centre....put in 30km round trip!

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@CFPartDeux 

We're a close knit family living independent lives....for the 12 years we all lived in bc we saw each other as often as we do now three 4 hour time zones apart!

CFPartDeux
Town Hero / Héro de la Ville

@darlicious  I'm getting the distinct impression that your parents are avoiding all their children! 😉 😆

@CFPartDeux 

Yeah they got all of us girls and our respective spouses to move out here and they go for visit and come back to bc to tell us they have sold their house in Naniamo and they are building a B&B in Antigonish!

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CFPartDeux
Town Hero / Héro de la Ville

@darlicious wrote:

@stevenanto 

Yes it is that's why when my husband and I came out to visit my parents 30 years ago from Toronto we never went back!


And now your parents live where? I've forgotten, but I'm VAGUELY recalling Nova Scotia??? 🤔

@stevenanto 

Yes it is that's why when my husband and I came out to visit my parents 30 years ago from Toronto we never went back!

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stevenanto
Model Citizen / Citoyen Modèle

vancouver is soo nice!

Here's a free bike ride for anyone in the big smoke....

 

https://forums.redflagdeals.com/bikeshare-toronto-free-30-min-bike-share-every-wednesday-july-toront...

 

Have fun!

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@LurganIeUk 

Ok maybe sometimes it's a good idea to get inside!!

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Took a cruise down the seawall to get some exercise and do a little people watching.

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Madison_07
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen

Sounds nice 

Anonymous
Not applicable

 @AE_Collector : What is this "gas" you speak of? 🙂

Ouch.

 

The only thing to make you feel a bit better is that you got food and drinks and gas would be how much more expensive?

 

AE_Collector

@AE_Collector 

This turned out to be a very expensive tire repair seeing as I had only replaced the tube a few weeks before and these are punctureless tires. Seeing as at this point in was 9:45 pm on the west side of Vancouver and I was getting maybe 300m before having to pump it back up again we had to come up with a strategy.

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Since I cannot walk more than 100 ft making it to the closest bus stop was not an option in that particularily poor serviced enclave of Vancouver. The bf's extra large 29" mtb is way too big for me to ride. So I make it to Cornwall and Yew and lock up the bike...thankfully with COVID-19 restrictions just eased I can make last call at the restaurant and I send the bf to the gas station on burrard while I order drinks and appy's.

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Three gas stations later the bf finds one at burrard and broadway that sells tire sealant. $20 for the can but his interac terminal is down he needs cash and the bf only has my credit card. One cash advance later ($20=$30). The bf shows back up fills the tire, we have a drink and snacks and were off again.

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Only this time taking  a more direct route home with a slight detour onto the seawall by granville island where we make it about halfway between granville and cambie and I'm almost flat again. More sealant and pump it up some more and cut up under the cambie bridge, past the cop shop and a straight line along 5th ave to Main st. where I can feel and hear the rapid air loss and I gingerly coast  the extra few blocks home.

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Tire sealant $20+cash advance cost+$10+drinks/food tab $50+new tube$10+ spoke wrench (to fix the issue causing the flat)$10=$100  My entire bike maintenance budget for a year! Sheesh!!

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@darlicious 

Great photos around Burnaby and Stanley Park. Looks like the duck I saw at the back of the Willingdon Costco and the Canada geese around QE Park. LoL

Thats too bad. No BCAA for electric bikes I guess! How do you go about getting it home or is finding a place that can repair tires close by the better choice...if possible?

 

AE_Collector

Here was a nice little spot to stop and do some account renewal/suspension testing. That all went well but then I got a flat tire rounding kits points that ended up being a long and costly process to get myself home!

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Duck Duck Geese & even More Geese!

Duck, duck...

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Goose...

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Anonymous
Not applicable

 @darlicious : Is that landing gear for an airplane or something? 🙂 🙂 Can't quite make it out. The resolution is so crappy. 🙂

@computergeek541 

My moto g7+ takes the majority of its photos with more MP than the 2.7MB allowed by this forum to upload. The only way I have found to compress is to text the photo to my self and then upload but it loses too much quality to want to post it. There must be another way.....stupid technology!😐

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CFPartDeux
Town Hero / Héro de la Ville

@Anonymous wrote:

 @darlicious : I hadn't recalled that CF was from these h'yar parts.


Ah iz - just a lil ol' piece further down the road from @LurganIeUk . 😁


@darlicious wrote:

Now if I can only figure out how to compress my photos without losing quality I will post more of my adventures....

You need to use a lossless compression method.  Howver, many file formats will already have some type of compression built-in.  if your photos are already in JPEG format, what you're asking isn't achievable from a technical standpoint.  The file is already heavily compressed and further compression is achieved by throwing data out.  Also, I wouldn't be suprised if the forum software is already compressing the image.  What I will say is that for the purposes of display a photo on a computer screen, the actual image quality and resolution doesn't need to be that high.

@AE_Collector 

Well I'm duly impressed! You certainly got something done today....I went back out on a mission to get to Deer Lake Park but got a little of track again but found Piper Spit. Now if I can only figure out how to compress my photos without losing quality I will post more of my adventures....

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Well I have a fun project under way. Perimeter drains around the house aren’t as good as they should be. Not real bad but I decided I should find the sump, open it up and make sure it isn’t full to the top with dirt, clean it out etc. I finally located the top of the sump 24” below grade in my back yard which explains why it took me a long LONG to find it. Then I had to round up three Covid-19 Masked helpers and myself to lift the 200 pound concrete lid off. I was surprised that it is working properly and only had about 6” of sand, gravel, dirt and rocks in the bottom.

 

I have dumped enough water in at each of my 4 down pipes from the gutters into the drain tile to verify that water is moving through the drain tiles to the sump fairly well. The actual vertical risers tying the downpipes to the drain tiles which are up to 5 1/2 feet below grade are the biggest problem so I have dug them all out and am replacing those pipes. One has to be fairly inventive to find a way to work by “remote control” at the bottom of a 5 1/2 foot deep hole that isn't much more than 1 foot diameter while lying on the ground above. Lights down the hole, digging and removing dirt is a challenge but the worst is trying to lift rocks out that are 2-3 feet out of reach.

 

The two deepest ones are done and the other two are in progress. I have one downpipe at an “inside corner” and the builder appears to have not bothered to provide an access point for this downpipe. So I dug out the 90 degree clay tile corner and very carefully drilled a whole bunch of little holes to knock out a piece and inserted this Big-O adapter into it. Worked like a charm. It is only 4 1/2 feet to the bottom of where it lives. Once done I can flush them all out to the sump again and then clean out the sump once last time, put the lid back on and cover it over. No one had been in there for 45 years since the house was built and no one probably will be again.

 

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BlueB
Deputy Mayor / Adjoint au Maire

Great photos, really appropriate for the nicer weather these days!  Hopefully it scares that nastic C*VID thing away... 🙂

Anonymous
Not applicable

 @darlicious : I hadn't recalled that CF was from these h'yar parts.

I was enjoying your pics featuring the north shore mountains and thought of that old timey movie Crocodile Dundee where he brags to a would-be mugger "call that a knife?" pulls out a machette that he just happens to carry around and says "now that's a knife" and the mugger runs away.

Thinking of all those easterners thinkin' they got mountains...as if. Those ones are round-about 5000-odd feet. Head inland or north and they get higher. Mountains...pish posh...mole hills more like it.

 

I also remember living in the residences at the tech school in the area and the few days where I could not see those same mountains from nearly the same distance. Those pictures make it seem like the mountains are further away. They're not.

 

To folks from elsewhere, the mountains are due north of the lower mainland...ie Vancouver. So it's real easy to get your bearings thinking oh there're the mountains ok that's north and know where you're headed.

darlicious
Mayor / Maire

Where to go today? Head west and test the waters at the beach? Head farther east? Maybe 'll drop in on @AE_Collector and take a tour of his telephone museum and pick up a few more spare parts for the Univac 5000?

 

If I really wanted to push the limits of my e-bike I could swing by @CFPartDeux's place and discuss the best way to catch a wiley weasel?

 

Or I could cross over to Maple Ridge and admire @LurganIeUk 's stained glass creations?

 

@Anonymous 

What are you going to get outside and do today?

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