Okay, it has been a long time since I posted. I know I have been neglecting the blog and you the loyal readers of TundraTalk Nation. Well I have been busy. With that business comes a HUGE announcement. The Peterson Family has decided to move again. That's right, putting all my shit into boxes and moving to new city to call my own. What is this city you might ask? Well hold your britches I will tell you. Regina Saskatchewan is the city that will now be ground zero for operations of TundraTalk. Donna had an opportunity to take a good job that allows her to have summers off along with all the other holidays, I was not completely pleased with the direction of my job (and the person I worked with), we managed to take advantage of the current boom here in Edmonton by selling our house with a very large profit, very large, so we decided to take the plunge and move. This move allows us to move closer to Donna's family and my family. Plus I now am only about 4 to 5 hours from NoDak as opposed to 15. Closer to Funyuns, Dakota Kid Seeds, Leinie's, KFC's cornbread, Mountain Dew that contains caffiene, and most of all Peanut Butter Captain Crunch. Oh, and to all my boys that still reside in the North Country you will be seeing me a little more often than every six years. I think that is good.
We sold our house here in less than 48 hours. No listing it, no real estate agent taking 25 grand, no nothing. Sweet. I will post here our new digits when we get them, we have a house in Regina, the pic to the left. Yes it has a great 'Man Cave' in the basement. Oh and more importantly with all that global warming going on, air conditioning. Sweet. Apparently we had AC in Green Bay also, but I do not remember that. Maybe I was not allowed to use it? The address in Regina will be 1507 Devonshire Drive. Not sure what the postal code is as of yet but I will let you know when I know. If you need to reach us the current phone number 780-434-3457 is active until the 15th of August and Donna's cel will be good for a few days after that 780-966-3457.So that is the big news, here is the rest...
Robby DuPuis, of the Minneapple DuPuis, was working the day of the bridge collapse. He was
the first camera on the scene. He sent out this email to let everyone know what was up. I thought the collective should get the insight...Just wanted to drop a line to you guys and let you know that Chrissie and I are ok. We had many calls last night wondering if we were. I was unable to answer my phone as I was the first photog on the scene and was neck deep in chaos. My reporter and I arrived so soon that we were able to park less than 20 yards from the collapsed bridge to find only two policemen and two paramedics amongst all of the injured and scared people around. It is very demoralizing to want to help all of those people and not being able to because: there was nothing I could do for them and much less importantly, I had a job to do. It's by far the worst situation I've had to be a part of in my career and I'm still trying to wrap my mind around what happened. That's all for now. Please say prayer for all of the people that have truly suffered from this tragedy.
Peace, rob.
Robby, you need to do what you can on your own to deal with it, but should also seek some counseling if you need it. I myself have seen my share of tragedy (not on that scale) and I know that you cannot do this alone. Your station should be able to help and if you want to call me to talk do it. Anytime. Stay safe.
NEXT: I did a podcast last week. I meant to do this one last summer but did not have a chance. It is Mark Sutherland a Pro Chuckwagon Racer from Calgary. You might remember him from a post a long time ago whenI was on his ranch shooting a video for a DVD. Just click the link to the right and listen to your hearts content.
NEXT: As Football season is coming up real fast, and the Camps are all in full on mode, I decided to put up some video that I found recently. It is a shot of the Lambeau Field scoreboard when they played a video of Reggie White. They used to play this during games and the whole place would go silent, everyone watching closely. Amazing the goosebumps would rise up as Reggie (RIP) sings Amazing Grace. YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS ONE.
Reggie Lives from hamiltongbp and Vimeo.
Oh and this one of Drunk Tommy Thompson....Classic...
Drunk Tommy Thompson from hamiltongbp and Vimeo.Have a great weekend and we will see you in Regina!!
