This is me and my family, as we looked about 1992.  That's me in the upper left, my son Nessim standing beside me, my daughter Becca in front of me, and my wife Barb beside her.
 
 
 
 
 

Here are my two kids, Becca on the left, and Nessim on the right. This is a picture from when they were both very little, early 1979. We were living in a 3rd floor apartment then, in Hay River, NWT.
 
 
 
 
 

Here's Becca being funny/pretty for her daddy and his camera. Also taken in the apartment early 1979. Isn't that red hair terrific?
 
 
 
 
 
 

Here's Becca in Grandma Scott's house, approximately summer of 1980. I can't say for sure if that is a telephone fascination because I was working as a telephone technician, or what.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Here's Becca July 31/99. That's a "Are you really taking my picture, or are you kidding?" expression.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Here's Becca eating a piece of birthday cake on her 22^nd birthday.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Here's Nessim at our house in Whitehorse, Yukon. I'm not sure exactly when this was taken, but it's after his long hair phase and before his crew-cut phase so I'd guess it's around 1997.
 
 
 
 
 

This picture of Nessim was taken in the parking lot of his work (Unitech) July 30/99. Isn't he handsome? Maybe I'm biased, but...
 
 
 
 

This is me at home, playing pool. That cue I'm using is one I've had for years. I bought it when I was still in my teens - it's older than my son. Yes, we have a pool table. It's a 4 X 8 with 3/4" slate. I bought the table new in 1991, about a year after we moved here. My favorite game is straight pool, and in case you don't recognize it, that's the game Fast Eddie (Paul Newman) played with Minnesota Fats (Jackie Gleason) in the movie The Hustler.
 
 
 

It's ok, my face didn't freeze in this expession. That's just me goofing around when Becca took my picture. I'm ok now. Really.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Here I am relaxing in front of the TV.
 
 
 
 
 

Here is a picture of Barb playing her guitar. Music is a very big part of her life. People ask me 'how many instruments does Barb play' and my answer is generally something like, 'as many as she has had contact with'. Barb was in university on a music major 'way back B.C. (Before Children). Now that they have grown up and moved out she's getting back into music again. For a few years there all she seemed to do is buy more instruments.....
 
 
 

Here was Barb doing one of her normal and frequent Bethany Music Director (back when she had that responsibility) duties, sorting music. Keeping it organized would be a snap if we'd just stop taking them out of the binders and using them.....
 
 
 
 
 

Here is one of my hobbies, a ball-bearing rollercoaster. I've dismantled it now, because I've started a new one. So far I've only started on the base for it. I learned a lot from building this one so the next one should be even better. The one in the prictures here started out as a small kit around Christmas time 1997 and was more than double the size of the kit in thse pictures. It was about 18 inches high and four feet long. It sat on our mantle in the living room.

This is my Camaro. My license plate is XNTREK.
 
 
 
 
 
 

This is our house. See, we DO get summer here in the Yukon - and I didn't even have to use a fast exposure setting on the camera to get a picture without snow!
 
 
 
 
 
 

On those rare extra-hot summer days here I set up this contraption. It's an old automotive radiator leaning up against a standard house fan, with tap water running through the radiator to the sprinkler on the front lawn. The air blowing through the radiator into the house is cooled by the tap water. All it cost me was the price of a few garden hose fittings and a standard heating system pressure regulator. It's not as good as a true air conditioner, but we seldom need such things here anyway, and this works quite well enough.

Here is another of my inventions. A few years ago I bought a new electric lawn mower. The old one, which I had been using for about 20 years, was still working well but the grass catcher was broken to the point where I couldn't repair it any more - I'd have to replace it. I decided to buy a new mulching mower and eliminate the bagging instead. (It makes a big difference in how the lawn looks, too.) So there I was with a very old mower that still worked. You may have noticed I have a picture of the front of our house on this page, but no picture of the back. That's because it's still in "greenbelt" condition, meaning it is left wild. I (infrequently) go back there and cut down a lot of it, but then I'm left with piles of brush: what to do with it? At times like that I'd often thought of renting a chipper, but it's about $100 for a day's use, and I never could get up that much enthusiasm for chipping it up. So, I hit upon this idea of converting the old mower into a light duty chipper/mulcher. I took the wheels off and fastened a scrap piece of plywood to the bottom, with a one-foot length of 4" exhaust pipe (my only expense on this project) as an input tube. I notched the edge of the plywood so it would fit on the top of my wheelbarrow, so the output of the device spits directly into the wheelbarrow. When the wheelbarrow fills up as is shown in the picture, I lift off the mulcher and wheel the mulch away for dumping. I'm spreading the mulch over the ground so it will eventually fertilize the soil and hopefully retard regrowth in the meantime.