I just got back from a marathon 600 mile run with the "Wild Canary". I have a friend who lives up near Perth, Ontario, about 1 hour from our nations capital, in Ottawa. I finished up a small design job on Wednesday, and since I didn't anticipate any more work coming in this week, decided to go travelling. I checked out the Environment Canada website, and it called for nothing but SUN, SUN, SUN for the next 4 days. Packed my bag, checked the oil and tire pressures Wednesday night, and got up at 7:00 AM to dark, heavily overcast skies and colder than a witches tit---decided to go anyways. Apart from near death from exposure, (no sidecurtains or heater), the trip went extremely well. Thank God for Tim Hortons (our Canadian donut and coffee chain) in every small town on the way---hot coffee in one, then hot coffee and pee in the next one, and so on, all the way from Barrie to Perth. I kept seeing ugly black/purple clouds and lightning stikes all around, but fortunately I missed all the rain, just hit a couple of places with really heavy airborne mist. Had a great visit with my friend and his wife, even attended a cruise night in Smiths Falls while I was there.---we did have sun on Friday and today. Started home this morning at 9:00, and decided to come home by way of Bancroft and see my ancient mother. (87 last week). Mom was thrilled to go riding in the roadster pickup, so we went up and seen her semi-ancient sister (78 in November) and had lunch. Mom invited me to stay overnight, but I wanted my own bed, so after lunch I pressed on for home. My God, that hotrod runs and handles sweet!!! I came the last 100 miles thru a series of winding secondary roads, and for an old car with a straight axle, that thing holds the road better than you can even imagine!!! It was a great trip. The car worked good, I had a great visit with my friend and got to cruise the Ottawa Valley, and I didn't freeze to death. (although it was 58 degrees F when I left Perth this morning wearing a Tee shirt, two sweatshirts, my summer jacket, and my old leather motorcycle jacket over top of that).