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Hi everyone,

Let's get some activity on this site.  I need it for stress relief during the day.  What are you doing for fun this summer?

Hi Mary Ellen

I'm off to see Tommy in Vancouver next week and then back to kayak Great Bear Lake for 2 weeks.....it's going by quick.

Will

Hi All,

I needed email access and now have Internet here at the cottage on the North West Miramichi...cooold day today and very windy here.  I am painting the place as a project for July and I must say I am thoroughly enjoying it.  My routine is painting from 7am till about 2pm, an afternoon nap followed by a drive to Miramichi for a great home made meal and then back up for fly fishing each evening at Craig's Pool.  Life is difficult!

Went to my 25th high school reunion and it was truly amazing.  I highly recommend people go when they have the opportunity.  Over half the crowd sat around chatting till around 6am...they announced that six grads were no longer with us which seems like a lot for a 42 year old crowd.

John V

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 05:25:39 pm:
Message from Patty Kelly at kelco@execulink.com:

HI ALL!  Right, Mary Ellen - good question.  Write in please.  I hope to spend a few days in New Hamberg visiting my granddaughter Sarah, son Robert, and Anne Marie.  I am bringing a young friend Chelsey, 9 years old.  I gave her a summer job (teaching Pat how to swim) and she is doing a great job.  I can tread water, go the length of the pool without touching bottom and lessons are twice a week.

Take care,

 Patty.

Well, I'm not sure what I'm doing for the summer, but after reading the latest news from the Gill Net Lodge, it looks like Willy is coming to visit.  I suppose it's only appropriate to say, "Drop by anytime, Will!"

Hi -- The weather has been and will be 30+ for next several days.  This heat is occuring right in time for Stampede.  Buddy (my dog) and I are just hanging out enjoying it by staying in the shade as much as possible.  I plan to take in the folkfest in late July and the Blues Fest in mid August.  Live music at least once a week and sitting on a patio having coffee.  May pop out to Vancouver to visit Mike and Tom.  Jayson has been hired as a minister in OutLook, Sask and starts Aug. 1, he and Estelle are very excited.  Sam keeps on trucking around town and Kathy arranges flights with West Jet.
 

AM

Hi all,

I took Rebecca, Katie-Rose and Tyler (Mark & Jennifer's son) to Bay du Vin yesterday and it was a great day.  The kids had a wonderful time digging in the sand and running through the water.  The girls did not get brave about swimming in the 18 inch water until after supper and then they did not want to leave.

JoAnn and I are taking a van load of little ones to a wedding in Fredericton next weekend.  We are staying over night at a hotel with a pool, so it should not be too bad.  Ray and Pat are not going to join us and are taking the trailer on to PEI.  We will join them Sunday night after John's (Mark & Jennifer's son) baptism party.  I think I will deserve one day of being non-Mom after that one. ha!

Thank God Uncle George has done this Geneological study!  I have just been asked to host Ireland's Ambassador to Canada tomorrow for lunch.  I am counting on using this information when there are lulls in the conversation.  Being an introverted Kingston has such drawbacks.  Thank God (and Uncle George) I can call upon the resources as needed!  All the best....ME

Hello To All my 2nd. Cousins and Others,

I have read the entire Gill Net Lodge and found it quite interesting.  I was able to figure out who all of you were thanks to George Kingstons' "Loggie Geneology" .  It looks like we all have a lot in common.

I am home from Cape Cod for a few days, we have a summer home there and I come home once or twice a week to mow the grass check on the cat and check on my father.  My father is doing quite well, he lives alone independently, drives and has a small veggie garden, his tomato plants look very good.  He will be 91 years old next month.  I believe this would make him the oldest living descendant of George and Annie (Kelly) Loggie, would that be right George?

With the passing of Red Sox great Ted Williams there has been a lot about the Miramichi recently. Ted loved the River.  He had a camp in Boisetown NB.  Former President Bush said he loved to fish the Miramichi more than he liked to bonefish off the Florida Keys.  I do not suppose, his son Jeb Bush liked to hear this as he is running for governor of Florida this year.

There should be lots of New Englanders in NB this summer as the Board of Tourism is doing heavy duty advertising, $2 U.S. equals $3 Canadian.

I hope you are all having wonderful summers along with great weather.  Enjoy, the days are getting shorter our sunset today is 8:17 P.M.

I hope to see or hear from some of you soon.

See ya later, Fred Quinn, Jr.

Saturday, July 20, 2002 - 10:30 PM PST:
Message from Tom Kingston, tk@tomkingston.com

Re: Stirring Things up

Hello all!!

Happy Summer to everyone!  Vancouver is enjoying great summer weather.  I am looking forward to Willy's visit (If he can call me Tommy, I can call him Willy - instead of Tom and Will).  He's arriving on Tuesday.

I speak to our editor, John Vickers, quite often.  This week I mentioned to him that I had a telephone interview with a man from Montreal.  I came home today with a voice mail from John, pretending to be a francophone.  The first half he sold it really well.  I was surprised!  On the second half, however, I think he wasn't quite sure if he was French or Chinese -- but he shone in the end with a perfect rendition of "better".... Enjoy!

Click here to listen to the answering machine message.  Note: On a modem it might take 2 minutes to download, but it's worth it.   Play it a couple of times...it gets funnier!!

Tom

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 10:00 AM PST:
Message from Tom Kingston, tk@tomkingston.com

Anybody seen or heard from "Moose hunter Mary"?

Tom

Here I am!  I haven't been doing anything nearly as exciting as moose hunting lately though.  Actually, I'm getting out of the crazy restaurant business and getting my real estate license at the moment.  That and finding homes for hapless Miniature Pinschers.  To see my most recent rescue go to www.minpinrescue.org and click on "dogs available".  He's way down near the bottom and you'll NEVER guess what I named him. :-) Hope everyone is having a great summer!  Thank you John Vickers for alerting me to go check out the Gill Net!  I need a little kick in the butt at times.

Mary

Good name, Mary.  Do you think the picture on the left looks a little like Willy, when he was younger of course?

Hello Everyone,

As the sun begins to rise over the forest along the Northwest Miramichi this morning, I felt like a Gill Net Lodge contribution.  It is wonderful to see the crystal clear reflection of a tall stand of birches on the river's smooth surface.

Just had my friend Jennifer and her daughter Katie up from New Jersey for a week and we enjoyed visiting all the surrounding sights and sounds from Escuminac Beach to the Swinging Bridge on the Nor' west...:-)  We had a great time.

The start of my Toronto opportunity has postponed until late October and I am hoping to secure a couple of months of interim contract work by the end of this week to keep me busy in the meantime.  I am anxious to present photo's of the cottage here that I have painted from top to bottom and hopefully will post them within a few days.  The place looks great if I do say so myself!

Aunt Bernadette, Uncle Pat and Father Coreless arrive here on the weekend for a visit and it will be great to see them. Growing up, it was a huge event when all the Sullivans arrived here at the cottage for a visit.  Everyone here is great.  We are having a mini-Kingston reunion here this weekend and Father Coreless is saying mass.  Last weekend there was a Vickers reunion with about 75 in attendance and Father Broderick said mass.   I was telling friends you would never know there was a priest shortage as they come to my house each weekend to say mass on the deck!

Nice to hear from you Fred Quinn, Jr.  My father asked me to pass along best wishes to your family.

John V

Got my cottage paint job photo's and you can view them by clicking on the image below..:-) JV

Sunday, August 4, 2002 - 08:16:50 am:
Message from Anne Marie at :

No wonder we spend time discussing the weather - it is so variable. A month ago we had record high temperatures. For the historical hottest time of the year, the first week of August, we have a record daytime high of 8 degrees. It is warmer near the north pole. Last weekend I was at the Calgary Folkfest and the temperatures were in the high 20's. Great weather and Music. I plan to go camping in the Rockies Wednesday for a few days, hoping the weather cooperates.

from the very cold--the furnace is on -bye for now.

AM

Tuesday, August 13, 2002 - 10:25:43 am:
Message from Fred Quinn, Jr. at mfquinn1@aol.com:

HELP!!!!!! Send us some clear, cool, refreshing Canadian air.  Today is the 23rd. day this summer we have had temps above 90^ F.  The previous record was 19 days. There is no let up in sight. Thank you all, Fred Quinn jr.

 Fred Quinn, Jr. can also be reached at Fred Quinn, Jr.

Hi!  I am reporting in from Tom Kingston's here on West Georgia St. in Vancouver.  .  Just spent a great week visiting friends on Vancouver Island..30 and sunny everyday.   Going to do some work for Tom for a week before heading out to New York for a layover.  I was telling friends, my furniture is in NYC,  I have some luggage in New Brunswick, my truck is parked at the Halifax airport and I am in Vancouver.  The joys of relocating!  I hope to be house hunting in Toronto around September 15th and it will be nice to pull the pieces back together.

Fred, I heard the Miramichi has had the hottest day in 20 or 30 years recently with a humidex of over 40 celcius, which would be close to the 120F mark.  A wind from the north might just do you in! :-)

John V

 Hi all,

We are going through one of the rights of passage this week.  Katie-Rose has come down with a case of Chicken Pox.  She is really miserable with them.  I think she has 4 on the bottom of each eyelid plus being polluted everywhere else. She is so miserable.  Oh, well, this too shall pass!  Bye for now....ME

Saturday, August 31, 2002 - 09:11:17 am:
Message from Patty Kelly at kelco@execulink.com:

Wedding Congratulations!  William and Monica, Sept 1st, Bernie & Pat, Sept 8th.  Lots of birthdays this month - Mary C. Sept 3rd, Brenda & Kevin V, Carmel L.  Please add.

Love Patty

Hello,

A rainy wet Sunday morning here in Manhatten.  Off to a birthday party with Jennifer's daughter Katie and then back to visit my old stomping grounds in Hopatcong, NJ where my former landlord "The Doc" is having an afternoon party.  The Doc's party's are Iranian in nature, right down to the music and the food.  Very good times - it will also be great to visit with his many friends whom I got to know while living next door.

Yesterday, we drove to Hershey, Penn. to visit the world's biggest chocolate factory.  You go through the place on one of those moving chairs (like Epcot) and the entire town has the aroma of rich milk chocolate.  You smell it from the time you wake up in the morning till you go to bed.  If you love chocolate, visiting Hershey is a must..:-)

Hoping to get back to Nova Scotia to retreive my truck in a few days and get back up to the cottage on the Miramichi for one last stint of flyfishing salmon. HOpefully the fall run of fish has begun!

The best of the fall season to all.

John V

Tuesday, September 3, 2002 - 07:59:52 am:
Message from MAry Ellen at :

To add to Aunt Patty's list, I know of the following additional celebrations this month:
Mary & Ed Rawlinson's 23rd (?) anniversary; Ken Kingston's Birthday on the 7th, Mom & Dad's 42nd anniversary on the 24th; Tommy Kingston's Birthday on the 23rd (?) and mine on the 28th. I will be 40(again) this year. ha!