Thank you for viewing my videos , and reading my novel .
Not working on my videos, actually not working, has left me a lot of time, when I am not visiting doctors, to work on my website.
Over the past few weeks I have had: 2 ultra sounds, bladder and throat; two CT scans, kidney & brain; three 360 degree x-rays; upper and lower jaw, two of which were used to make a 3D view of my teeth; plus a complete blood work up. 
Now I am just waiting for results and a date for an MRI of my knee.
I added some more pictures to my Alberta highway 3 page .
And I added some more pictures to my Saskatchewan highway 16 page .
I also added another page to my Alberta section, - Hwy. 4 .
And I added another page to my USA section, - Montana .
Enjoy

MIKE LAKE

This morning I went to Mike Lake to go fishing.

They had stocked it two weeks ago and I thought there might be some left.

Mike Lake is just a few miles North of Maple Ridge on the road to Alouette Lake.

It is a well maintained road but only open to the public during daylight hours.

It has a decent size parking lot close to a small wharf at the Southwest corner of the lake.

However, the wharf is in three sections.  The fist section closest to dry land is mounted on concrete supports, with a metal ramp  on the end to allow for rise and fall of the water level.

The second, and first floating, section of the wharf is, for some reason, not floating very high above the water on the shore end.

When you step on the metal plate it forces the end of the float below the surface.

OK, I’m overweight, but not by that much.

Ankle high boots are sufficient to keep your feet dry and the wharf will hold your weight and is fairly stable once you get to the middle.

However, the second, and second section of floating, section of the wharf system, has the same problem. If you step on the North end of the section it tends to drop below the surface of the water.

Though the water looks clear and placid I don’t think one wants to end up in the water.

Because the water is clear one can see that the bottom of the lake is covered with bodies. Bodies of fish.

Some fresh kill, some partially decomposed and some merely skeletons.

I had no desire to eat any fish that would be caught in such waters so I packed up and went home, without baiting a hook.

Why the fish are dead I have no idea.

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MORE PICTURES ADDED

`12/6/18

Thank you for viewing my videos, http://www.youtube.com/user/Bear39224

Not working on my videos, actually not working, has left me a lot of time to work on my website.

I added some more pictures to my Alberta highway 3 page. http://www.leespage.ca/h/tra/ca/a/H3.html

I also added another page to my Alberta section, - Hwy. 4 http://www.leespage.ca/h/tra/ca/a/H4.html

And I added another page to my USA section,  – Montana. http://www.leespage.ca/h/tra/us/m.html

Enjoy

Yours

Bear

POLLS

People love to fill out polls feeling that they are contributing something to society.

The problem is that most polls are geared to get the answer that the instigator of the poll whishes to hear.

Take for instance a recent poll regarding B. C. Hydro and their Power Smart programs.

It is obvious by the questions that the poll was at the request of B. C. Hydro and the questions are geared so that no matter how you answer them the poll will result in answers that are favourable to B. C. Hydro instead of reflecting the truth.

For instance the very last question is a multiple guess of which you can only choose one answer and nowhere in the answers is there an answer such as,` NONE OF THE ABOVE’.

There are no answers there that reflect your true feelings or would shed a negative view on the Power Smart programs and your questionnaire program won't let you continue without marking one of the choices though you don't want to mark any of them.

The correct answer is, to reduce the number of employees, and to increase the amount of profits to B. C. Hydro under the disguise of conserving energy.

It made me very angry to have to give an answer that would be favourable to something I am not in favour of.

 All of the promotions by B. C. Hydro are used to disguise the fact that they want homeowners to cut back on power consumption so they have more to sell to the states, yet they do nothing to make industry cut back. and all the incentive programs are posted to the government costing the taxpayers higher taxes.

Currently they have an insulation incentive in which the government will give homeowners a rebate if they reinsulated their home.

Why should I as a taxpayer, pay to help insulate someone else’s home if it isn’t going to result in a lowering of my hydro bill, but will cause an increase in my taxes and an increase in profits to B. C. Hydro?

Or why would I be in favour of  new power smart meters that are very expensive?

The cost of these, and the cost of installation, will be passed on to me in higher hydro rates.

The installation, and use, of them will result in: increased garbage (the old ones) going to the landfill, unemployment, the meter readers that normally go to your house once a month will be laid off; B. C. Hydro will not need to replace the cars the meter readers use which means less sales for an already dying auto industry which will result in more layoffs; all these people being laid off will result in a burden on the unemployment insurance benefit program which will, again, result in higher income tax for me.