Gees! I got very little sleep overnight, if any. Maybe an hour. I was dead beat tired. Yet I got up at 9am, had a shower something to eat with my insulin dressed and packed up a lunch and a bottle of Coke and headed out the door East to Moores where Dale asked me to connect with him around 9:45am. I had about a 20 minute wait or so until my ride showed and he handed in a couple of tux rentals and we were on the eoad at last. He doesn’t drink coffee. So much for Tim’s.

One day without coffee wont hurt me. It took quite awhile to get to Fort Edmonton Park as well. Almost 40 minutes to travel out 10 miles. Lots of construction going on and detours. We had a fair distance to go where we parked the car as well and I‘m snapping photos all the way. I’d say it’s a good half a mile from where we parked the car and under all that Sun it was hot out there.

We set up the signs to the upstairs and began hosting the day. I think we had a great turnout. Usually people would come from downstairs from the cafeteria and take a look around. Dale was right, there is a lot of walking around there and there’s lots to do. Fort Edmonton park is owned and operated by the City of Edmonton and gets about 850,000 visitors from Victoria day Long weekend until when the season closes after the Labour day long weekend.

What surprised me about the lodge is that it’s a working Lodge meaning it’s still in use even during the winter. Must be pretty cold there on a weekday night in January when it’s -25C out there. We got a lot of people asking questions about the chairs and a few getting into the conspiracy side of Masonry. It was slow going there for awhile but things picked up after lunch.

The thing is I didn’t get any photo’s taken of me at Fort Edmonton park. I took about 30 photo’s. Too many to post here. You can go to YouTube and see a lot of photos that were uploaded including the Masonic Hall.

I’ll be posting some more photos tomorrow as well. Near the last hour I had someone ask me if I’m a Mason. She said she was part of Jobs daughter. A concordant body of Masonry and was looking to somehow contact the Eastern Star which my wife and I plan on joining this fall or early next year. I took down her details for later.

I really enjoyed my afternoon at Fort Edmonton park. Dale was telling me after we locked up to bring back the keys that it costs $15 for an adult pass. Because we were volunteers we get in for free. It’s a good deal. We left at 5pm and I got in at about 6:30pm. I called Neil immediately about this contact because I was thinking John but he’s a bit hard to get a hold of.

So I called Neil and passed the details to him. I’ll call her and give her Neils # tomorrow.

Anne called about 6:30pm and we had a chat. She’s had 5 hours on the job and she’s on her way home. We’re going to have our Sunday brunch tonight as she has some Summerslam baby back ribs for me for supper. Good stuff. I’ll be up for awhile tonight yet doing my stuff.

Anyway gang, that’s about all for now

Jim