Solstice 2008 has come and gone!

I will soon be posting the latest picture of the solstice sun. Every year, I hope to do it as sort of an annual ritual. Now you will all know how high the sun gets over the Edmonton horizon at high noon on the shortest day of the year! The answer is: Not very. You can just about slip a piece of paper between the bottom of the sun and the horizon. OK, it’s a really thick piece of paper. Don’t try this at home; I’m a professional.

Pictures will be posted in this post soon, but right now I am too bagged from working all day hanging a big screen LCD TV in somebody’s house who can afford one, in Sherwood Park, and then installing a network printer, in Spruce Grove. I would have fixed a networking issue in Stony Plain at the same time but unfortunately they were closed before I got done in Spruce Grove. Now I will have to go back there tomorrow. Total distance today is about 150 km round trip.

So that’s it. The shortest day and the longest day all wrapped up into one. Don’t just sit there staring at your computer monitor! The pictures won’t be up until tomorrow sometime. Go do something useful!

So here are two photos. They are really bad and overexposed but I didn’t have a lot of time to mess around with it. And yup, I can finally say it…the days are getting longer!

And…who the heck BBQ’s in -27 degree weather in the dark? Why, a Canadian of course!