About Me, My Profile, Where I've Lived, What I've Done.

Although since I first wrote and published this post Google + has changed their version of my so called "blogger profile (see new version, posted below) you can still  see their original, by clicking on the so  called blogger profile tab. MY PROFILE;comes directly from my cookbook-published pre 1995. as you can still readily see; it has been made and still appears that THEY own the copyright .

About me

Gender	Male
Occupation	Semi-retired
Location	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Introduction	My father's family came from around Girvan Scotland. My mother's family was from Barrie and Orillia, Simcoe Ontario; where they had lived for several generations before moving to Alberta. I was born to 1940 rural Alberta (Winterburn area just outside of Edmonton--See post Canadian I Am--History of School,Store and Grain Elevator. Full electricity, running water, and telephone were things only hoped for; and of course there was no TV so the old way of life was still quite common. I grew up in and around Edmonton. My wife grew up near a small town in the rural Peace River area of Alberta. Whether you lived in the city or in the country; in those days you tried to raise your own eats (those that could not be gathered wild), and that went for meats also (many city dwellers raised a few chickens, almost all had a garden, and if you lived near the out-skirts, it was not unheard of to raise a hog or two). What you couldn't raise you would try to shoot. I would venture to say that every man, woman, and child, had some knowledge of how to set a hen, skin a rabbit, fire a rifle, hitch a horse, and butcher a hog. It was survival.
Interests	Cooking, Publishing and Selling my Cook-book, Nursing, Psychology, Writing, Pool,Dog Training, Fishing, Camping, Harmonica
Favourite Films	Favorite TV Shows: You've gotta be kidding; in this era, of little or no talent, formula scripts and carbon copy performers, one show is almost an exact replica of another. This is especially true of country music performers, most "pop" (notably female), and music videos--put a bag over the performers head-- then right down to the short shorts, gyrating hips, and green, red, silver, or blue hair, everything else is the same.There's really nothing worth watching-- most shows are either an insult to a persons intelligence, or they have been premièring "first time today, at this time, on this channel," for the last sixty years. The entertainment industry is sorely in need of at least ONE truly talented performer. Favourite Movies: As above.
Favourite Music	Favorite Music: Jazz-especially big band with a well played sax or trumpet. I also very much enjoy "good" finger or Chet Atkins style guitar and, if it is also well played, with a pure, rich, sound, by someone who can actually read music, the simple little harmonica.
Favourite Books	Poems of Robert Service, Poems of Robbie Burns, The Edmonton Story, Never Cry Wolf, Death of a Legend, and my cook book.

My blogs

• SURVIVAL AND BUSHCRAFT TECHNIQUES, "DOWN NOT OUT".
• Scotch Thistle with a Canadian Bite.
• ----AL'S COOKING RECIPES----*****... House of Girvan*****
• Food To Satisfy The Soul, Canadian; Heritage Style; Chowders, Soups, Stews
• In Tribute to Those Who First Built Canada And to out Future Heirs
• POEMS,QUOTATIONS... REMEMBER
• Quick Fast Foods--Hamburger... Meat Balls, Meat Loafs, Franks
• Your Health--Psycholo... The Girvan's Way
• Canadian, I am

My Version. 

About Me, My Profile, Where I've Lived, What I've Done.

Places

Gender	Male
Occupation	Semi-retired
Location	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Introduction	My father's family came from around Girvan Scotland. My mother's family was from Barrie and Orillia, Simcoe Ontario; where they had lived for several generations before moving to Alberta. I was born to 1940 rural Alberta (Winterburn area just outside of Edmonton--See post Canadian I Am--History of School,Store and Grain Elevator. Full electricity, running water, and telephone were things only hoped for; and of course there was no TV so the old way of life was still quite common. I grew up in and around Edmonton. My wife grew up near a small town in the rural Peace River area of Alberta. Whether you lived in the city or in the country; in those days you tried to raise your own eats (those that could not be gathered wild), and that went for meats also (many city dwellers raised a few chickens, almost all had a garden, and if you lived near the out-skirts, it was not unheard of to raise a hog or two). What you couldn't raise you would try to shoot. I would venture to say that every man, woman, and child, had some knowledge of how to set a hen, skin a rabbit, fire a rifle, hitch a horse, and butcher a hog. It was survival.
Interests	Cooking, Publishing and Selling my Cook-book, Nursing, Psychology, Writing, Pool,Dog Training, Fishing, Camping, Harmonica
Favourite Films	Favorite TV Shows: You've gotta be kidding; in this era, of little or no talent, formula scripts and carbon copy performers, one show is almost an exact replica of another. This is especially true of country music performers, most "pop" (notably female), and music videos--put a bag over the performers head and everything else is the same.There's really nothing worth watching-- most shows are either an insult to a persons intelligence, or they have been premièring "first time today, at this time, on this channel," for the last sixty years.  The entertainment industry is sorely in need of at least ONE truly talented performer. Favourite Movies: As above.
Favourite Music	Favorite Music: Jazz-especially big band with a well played sax or trumpet. I also very much enjoy "good" finger or Chet Atkins style guitar and, if it is also well played, with a pure, rich, sound, by someone who can actually read music, the simple little harmonica.
Favourite Books	Poems of Robert Service, Poems of Robbie Burns, The Edmonton Story, Never Cry Wolf, Death of a Legend, and my cook book.

Currently

Vancouver British Columbia

Previously

Edmonton Alberta Canada - Alberta: EDMONTON, Calgary,Lethbridge,  Banff, Bonanza, Big Valley, Bragg Creek,Conklin, Deadwood, Donalda, Drayton Valley, Hughendin, Czar,Grand Prarie, Jasper, Lacombe, Leduc, Millet, Mulhurst, Mundare, Peers, Niton, Embarras, No Jack, Obed, Redcliff, Red Willow, Reno, Rimby, St Albert,St. Paul, Picardville, Thorsby , Slave Lake, Stoney Plain, Vimey, Warburg, Westlock, Wetaskiwin, Wabaska, Fairview, Hines Creek. British Columbia: Fort St. John, Dawson's Creek, Hope, Lady Smith, Vancouver, Paddle Prarie, Prince Rupert, Stewart. I have also worked All over in the Canadian Arctic - NORTH WEST TERRITORIES, Aklavik,Fort Resolution, Fort Simpson, Fort Smith Hay River, - MACKENZIE DELTA, Inuvik,Norman Wells Tuktoyaktuk, Wrigley - NUNIVUT, Alert, Baffin Island, Baker Lake, Cambridge Bay,Churchill, Elesmere Island, Iqaluit, Melvile Island, Rankin Island, Resolute, Quittinirpaaq National Park,Victoria Island

My browser speed (in other words, I am now being allowed only partial internet access; and it does not matter what browser NAME I might otherwise use, as has become all too obvious, they are all connected,  basically the same) has now been slowed down to the point that I often get a "site not available"notice--from secure banking and credit sites. I am now prevented from posting comments on other web-sites (something I had commonly did and had no trouble in doing so before), unless I join Google +, apparently Google or Amazon figures they own these other sites too; which , of coarse  they do not. If, Amazon, Google, Wikipedia, and Yahoo were and are not still accessing and using my private information, identity, and copyright material for their own profit; how is it that it illegally appears on several of their sites? Why would they have any reason or compulsive obsessive NEED to be accessing copying, renaming, or using MY material on these sites? I am not a breathing walking bill board. If they do wish to post or otherwise  borrow and/or employ this material in their very, very lucrative "social media" and MAD then they must  pay me (I am not referring to their so called "Ad Sense" which as everyone knows, is just a rude, joke-rubbing salt into the wound) and they must do so at a rate comparable to other areas (all of which expect a healthy return) sources used for such advertising;