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April 14, 2008. Victoria BC

Home again! And what a journey it all was. We woke up at a reasonable time on Sunday morning and loaded up for the trip to Vernon for the last night of the tour. It would be the second time in a week that we took the drive West between Calgary and Golden past the foothills, and through the mountains. The Midnight Goose honked to her friends the snow geese and we all were awed by the mountains (and the fancy new bridge just East of Golden). We got stopped for a while near Revelstoke because, according to the road worker guy that told us what was going on, "the army was shooting sh&t off of the mountains" above us (that meant they were doing avalanche control...) but managed to get in some exercise walking up and down the rows of stopped cars and big rigs. The drive from Revelstoke to Vernon seemed to really drag on and we got to our friend Kate's house just in time to scarf down some dinner and set up for our house concert which ended up being more like a house party. There were even two auctioneers at the party who helped us move quite a few CDs and t-shirts. Enough that we had our lovely GrufFans pose in their fancy new shirts for a picture.

This morning was fun because it's Terri's birthday! I got up and snuck off to pick up the ingredients for a birthday party: a cake, some NHL paper plates, some tonic water and a bottle of gin and hid them in the van (believe it or not, it's possible!) for later. Terri didn't even suspect a thing and was very happily surprised when we pulled out the mini table and threw her a birthday party in the van on the ferry ride back to the Island (don't worry folks, I don't drink and drive!) We're all happily home now and I'm pretty sure everyone else is all snuggled up in their beds as I'm typing this. We've only got a couple of days before our CD Release parties here in Victoria and then Jenny and I are off to the wilds of the interior for another season of treeplanting before we take to the road again in July. If we don't see you at the CD Release, we'll see you on that tour! And until then, I'm going to sleep.

April 12, 2008. Calgary AB
Well! The nice big Southern Alberta crowd pulled through for us in High River! We were a little skeptical at first and the thought crossed all of our minds that we might just not sell a single CD at our show at Gitter's Pub but they sure proved us wrong during our second break! It turned out that they loved us all along and just needed a little bit of booze in their systems before they let on. We had a great time there and are looking forward to when we can go back. There was a particularly happy drunk man there who really loved Adam's banjo playing and coined his newest (and best yet!) nickname. Banjo Boy!! After the show in High River we made the short trek back up to the sprawling lights of Calgary to spend the night at our friend Kent McAlister's parents house. It was absolutely wonderful.... just what we needed except of course for the part that we got the dog so excited that she peed on the floor... sorry!! We spent Saturday in Calgary getting some stuff done in the gloriously warm and sunny weather before our show at the Prairie Sky Housing Co-op where Banjo Boy was joined by his trusty sidekick The Harmonica Hero to save the world for another day.

April 11, 2008. High River AB

We're back in Alberta now and gosh is it beautiful outside. The sun is shining and it's nice and warm as long as you're not in the wind. We got to High River early this afternoon and have been basking in the sun and hanging out at the coffee shop for most of the afternoon. Last night we played at The Canmore Hotel in Canmore in the mountains. It was super fun. We met quite the cast of characters in our short stay there. Terri and I sat at the bar waiting for a pool table to open up or the show to start (which ever came first) drinking beers with two Canmore Hotel fixtures, Printer Jim and his pal Cribber Jeff. They told us all the working guys in Canmore go by their job name as well as their real name. They also told us that The Canmore Hotel is the second oldest establishment of its kind in Alberta second only to one in Stettler. And that Canmore has the highest number of University Graduates per capita in the country. The show itself was super fun and came complete with the following bar show staples: the wasted 23 year old birthday girl, the acoustic band in a loud bar feedback, the rounds of Vitamin P's (Pilsner for those of you who don't know...), lots and lots of dancing, an audience member who saw us once on the other side of the country and the inevitable point in the evening where everyone is suddenly too drunk to pay attention and really hard to get out of the bar. Over breakfast today we got the morning version of last night after we were amicably assaulted by a young man from Quebec who had already polished off half a pitcher of beer by 11:00am and wanted to join our band. The best part of the particularly arduous breakfast, which was mostly spent trying to understand what our self appointed breakfast guest was saying in a very thick Quebecois accent while the Led Zepplin he put on was pouring out of the juke box, was when we were leaving and the bar tender calmly asked the drunk guy to "do up his pants please sir." The desire to get breakfast over with was probably why we arrived in High River so early today. Gitter's Pub looks little and fun and we're hoping for a nice big Southern Alberta turnout. We're not acutally sure if that exists yet but are ready to be convinced!

April 9 2008. Golden BC.
Our third and final day off in Golden BC took an interesting turn. While Terri and I were hanging out playing guitar and ukulele at the kitchen table, Jenny and Adam went into town to see what trouble they could get into and ended up getting us the shortest gig we've ever played. They happened upon the Golden Arts Council office and were asked if The Gruff wanted to play an impromptu opening slot for a band from Quebec City called Rosheen who were playing at the Civic Center tonight. We said sure and played two songs. Then we hung out and listened to Rosheen, packed up the van and found out that we sold a bunch of CDs! We calculated that if we were being paid an hourly wage it would work out to about $325 an hour each. Not bad for a night off... We celebrated by going to 7-11 and picking up the fixings for rootbeer floats which we ate/drank while watching Mystery Men. We sure know how to party!
April 8, 2008. Golden BC
This is the day that I made a movie of us playing Scrotoss... you used to be able to see it here.... I don't know what happened. but! it's on youtube. Just go there and search 'Scrotoss!'
April 7, 2008. Golden BC

A home cooked meal!
Days off are nice. We spent most of the morning sleeping. Then we spent about two hours walking into town and eating breakfast. Then Jenny and Adam and I spent a few hours on computers while Terri played with the puzzle she's become absolutely obsessed with. Then Jenny and I went for a walk to the video store. Then Terri, Jenny and Adam made dinner (first time in like... ever!!!) then we ate it while watching a sappy movie. Then I did the dishes (I'm much better in the kitchen after all the cooking's finished..) and now we're sitting around with guitars, computers and puzzles. A nice relaxing, well deserved break! Check out what we found on the bulletin board at the house we're staying at!

April 6, 2008. Golden BC

Tonight The Gruff is holed up and cozy in our very own home for the next three days. Today we woke up in Nanton, played a gig in Black Diamond, got a little lost in Kananaksis Country and watched the sun set over the distant mountains on our way to Golden to sleep. A lot has happened since my last entry. Get a cup of tea and have a seat.

Our whole day in Nanton was spent in the best ways. We slept until after noon. (!) Went to the Main St Cafe for breakfast (where we learned about the sneaky business Jeff and Shayne from Ghosts of the Highway had been plotting to keep us in Nanton...) Then we all split up for some down time. Adam walked around a bit, Jenny walked around a bit and played some guitar, Terri watched some CSI and I went over to library to rescue the tour journal and get started on booking our summer tour. We were invited over to our new friends Ali and Darren's house with Leah and Joey Only and had a wonderful, home cooked meal complete with curry and pie. Then Darren showed us a new game. The game is called Scrotoss and is played with a scrote, a leather bag that is larger at both ends and filled with things like beads, and sticks, or shafts, for catching and throwing. I wont go into incredible detail but you can check out www.scrotoss.org for more details. Here are some photos of our Scrotoss team:

After dinner and Scrotoss we all headed back over to the Auditorium Hotel for our show. There was a big curling bonspiel in town this weekend and the big celebration party was that night so there weren't a whole lot of people at the Auditorium but the beer delivery truck driver was definitely there. Apparently he's from Nelson, had been drinking at the bar for a while, and was very excited by the fact that we're from BC. So excited in fact that he sent two rounds of shots and a round of beers to the stage all during the first set. Lucky for us, he got too drunk to stick around much later than that and had to leave. The rest of the show went well and we sat around eating popcorn from the popcorn machine where some people say Bandit the cat sleeps until the bar closed and it was time for us to go to sleep.

Jenny and the cougar at the bar in Nanton.
This morning we woke up at our leisure and had a big breakfast downstairs in the cafe with Leah and Joey before packing everything up, leaving our new CD with Barb to hopefully put in the jukebox (I'm still dreaming of the day when our CD is in a jukebox) and headed out to Black Diamond, a whole 40mins away. We've driven through Black Diamond numerous times on our way to Calgary (including once already this tour) but have never stopped there before. I think things will be different now that we've spent some time at The Stop. It's a great little cafe right on the main street (Highway 22) where they have live music quite a lot as far as I could tell. They also make really good coffee (Jenny said it was the only good coffee she's had since we left Victoria and she's the expert) and have great food. We played a very intimate little show for seven very wonderful and appreciative people (and an eighth who came in half way through). They said that the place is normally pretty full for Sunday afternoon shows but it was kind of snowy and gross there this morning and the whole day had been unusually slow. After the show we ate a nice meal and headed out for Golden. We just finished talking to Kent McAlister and the Iron Choir on Skype (they're in Sudbury right now staying in the Townehouse Tavern basement band room......) and are thinking about hitting the hay. We're staying here until Thursday and are looking forward to resting and hopefully getting some exercise. And not only do we all get our own bed, we get our own rooms!!!!


April 4, 2008. Nanton AB
I've heard that the tour journal has disappeared.... it happened in Lethbridge. I don't really know what happened exactly but I couldn't fix it before we left and now we're in Nanton where we don't have internet. I've heard there's some at the library though and will check it out tomorrow. I hope you're all ok out there and that you didn't think the worst. I'm pretty sure I left you off on our way to Lethbridge not knowing what might happen.... Well The Slice happened. Boy oh boy did it happen. We got to the venue extremely early because we were extremely hungry and ate some really awesome pizza. Then we gave the pool table a workout for a couple of hours leaving it only to do a sound check. We would get more use out of it a lot later on. Once I got to The Slice all of my concerns of not hearing anything back and not knowing anything at all about the gig kinda just melted away. Once you get to The Slice it's kinda like nothing on the outside really matters much. It's just a great big room with lots of tables, a gigantic stage, a pool table, a bar and a pizza kitchen. It's kinda dark and there's not much on the walls and it's just super laid back and comfortable. Quite a few people came out considering we've never played in Lethbridge and all we managed to get for publicity was a mention in the paper (I think). There's a DJ on the University radio station who really digs our CD and plays it all the time and had been plugging the show which also helped bring in some people. And it turns out that everyone at the bar has been hearing The General Store on CKUA (a wicked station out of Edmonton) and were pleasantly surprised to find that it was our song. Anyway, the show went really well and we'll be back there again, hopefully in July. The sound system was just cranked which is fun sometimes and the audience stuck around for both sets which is always fun. After the show things got a little out of hand. Jenny went home to bed and Terri and Adam and I hung out at the bar with the staff playing pool and having a ball. We got home Extremely late and woke up not that long after feeling a little rough around the edges. It didn't take us long to find breakfast and another pool table to play at while we waited for someone to get to The Slice so we could get in to get our gear and ship out to Nanton which luckily for us today is only just over an hour away from Lethbridge.

Jenny, Adam and Shayne from Ghosts of the Highway in Nanton.
Although we've only played in Nanton once before it feels very familiar to us. Arriving at the Auditorium Hotel was just the best thing that could have happened to us today. The folks that run the place are awesome and are always so happy to see us. Our friend from Artwells two years ago named Joey Only (from the Joey Only Outlaw Band from Vancouver) has been living here at the Auditorium over the winter working in the kicthen and getting a new album together so we get to hang out with him and his girlfriend this weekend. Also, a couple of our friends from Victoria called Ghosts of the Highway are on a cross country, hitchhiking tour right now and happened to have a show at the cafe here in Nanton earlier this evening. And some other band friends from Victoria called BarleyWik were also here today although they left in the early evening so we didn't get to hang out with them. It's like West Coast takes over Nanton Alberta day or something. All of us Gruffs are looking foward to getting to stay here all day tomorrow and not have to get in the van and drive to a new town with a new bar and new beds. No alarms are set and we're all going to take it easy tomorrow.

April 3, 2008. Lethbridge AB
Today we bid farewell to Saskatchewan for now. I was sad to leave but we shall return! The old Goose is all tuckered out now because it was so windy all the way here! Everywhere we stopped people in the gas stations were asking each other 'will the wind ever let up?' It seemed like a long sort of drive during which we listened to quite the menagerie of music. We started off with Hawksley Workman and the Rheostatics, went through Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, some Appalachian Mountain music and The Flaming Lips and cruised on into Lethbridge with the newest Ryan Adams that no one could believe was him. We're taking a little rest now at our friend Howard Johnson's house before we go seek out The Slice and get ourselves some of the 'best pizza in Southern Alberta' and sus out what we're in for tonight.
Bed time - April 2, 2008. Mortlach SK

Well, it turns out Mortlach is all wired up after all. (and is just about to start booming!) We heard from the mayor this evening that most of Saskatchewan actually has had high speed internet a lot longer than most places in Canada because of their provincial phone company. You can even get high speed satellite service for your farm for pretty cheap these days. The Gruff is addicted to the internet. But alas, I digress.... We love Mortlach. It's just so tiny and wonderful. We listened to The Police as we drove here from Regina this afternoon gazing out at the prairie and the clouds. Is it me or are clouds more expressive on the prairies? Maybe they're just expressive in a different way than ocean clouds but they sure seem to have a lot to say. Today they were very lumpy and tall but not all over the sky so you could see the beams of sunlight shining through them. Very nice. Very nice. We got to Mortlach pretty hungry and had some great Bison burgers at the Wagon's West Cookhouse. It was Jenny's very first Bison burger and she's not sure how she feels about them. Adam still thinks they're great. Terri had a veggie burger and I had a small mustard incident. Don't worry, I'm ok. We followed that up with some Saskatoon berry pie (because we're in Saskatchewan after all) and then went for a little pre-show stroll talking about which town in Saskatchewan we'd like to live in and how soon we can get there.

Our show at the Wagon's West Cookhouse was really fun. There weren't as many people as the ladies at the Cookhouse expected but you never know what might happen on a Wednesday night in calving season. The folks that came out were great and made us feel very welcome and happy. We're all looking forward to coming back here in July for the first annual Saskatoon Berry Festival. Tomorrow it's off to Lethbridge where... well... I have no idea what might happen. We've never been there before and I stopped hearing back from the venue we're booked at about a month ago.... here's hoping!

Afternoon - April 2, 2008. Regina SK
We're hanging out in Regina right now having stopped for some food after a brief roadside meeting with Kent McAlister and the Iron Choir. We heard we were in the same neighbourhood (by neighbourhood I mean province) and decided to meet up in the parking lot of a Tim Horton's near Regina for a quick chat and a mic stand swap. (Terri and Chris accidentally swapped mic stands when we stole him for that show back in Calgary.) I left the camera in the van so photos from yesterday and right now wont be up until we find wireless internet again which might not be for a while considering we're headed for Mortlach, a town of about 300 inhabitants and not much besides a restaurant and a candy shop. Most people we've talked to so far have no idea where Mortlach is. We do because when we were on our cross country tour last summer we got an email from Derek who had recently opened the Mortlach Sweet Shoppe and had seen our poster in the pub in Regina where we were playing. The poster caught his eye so he took one and brought it back to the Sweet Shoppe, hung it on the wall and sent us an email saying he and his partner Teresa would be seeing us in Regina and would we stop in at the Sweet Shoppe on our way. We happened upon Mortlach quite late in the evening on our way to Regina that day and didn't think they'd be open but lo and behold the only glowing lights on the main drag (if you can call it that) were the lights of the late night Sweet Shoppe. Since then Mortlach has a sweet spot in the heart of the Gruff (no pun intended) and we're actually heading back there again in July for the first annual Saskatoon Berry Festival. Needless to say, we're excited to get there today where we'll be playing at the famous Wagon's West Cookhouse and staying with the Mayor! Hopefully he'll let us do some laundry.....
Night time - April 1, 2008. Wadena SK

By the time everyone was up and about today we were running out of day. We had directions to the best breakfast place in Saskatoon but unfortunately slept too long and had to settle for lunch. It was definitely a great place though and in a whole other part of downtown. We were told it was on the 'worst street in Saskatoon'. We were trying to figure out what that meant on the way there and figured it must be the traffic but then we got to where we were going and thought maybe it was the worst as in the sketchiest. It inspired a rather heavy breakfast conversation which ranged from homelessness in general to specifically in Victoria to social problems in the world today and how we are and aren't helping and even included a whole section on money and what it's like to not have any. Needless to say breakfast lasted a lot longer than normal and we left the restaurant when we were supposed to be leaving the city. Jenny's cough hasn't gotten any better and she really needed to go to the clinic again (turns out we were right and it's bronchitis. She's got a prescription for anitbiotics that we'll fill tomorrow and soon she'll be right as rain) so we ended up being super late leaving for Wadena. Luckily (don't read this part mom) my foot was heavy today and we made really good time. Saskatchewan is so flat and straight!

Wadena Saskatchewan is just north of... well... another small town. It was pretty much exactly what we thought it would be. A nice little town with a 40km speed limit, a gas station, grocery store, a few restaurants and businesses and an elementary school on the main drag which lasts all of about 135 seconds when you're driving. When we got to Wadena we went to the Bilue Willow Inn, where we're generously being put up for the night, and checked into our very own Aframe house! It's so cozy and wonderful. Our show was in the upstairs room at the Good Luck Diner on the main drag where we had a whole bunch of buffet dinner and a nice, intimate little show.
Morning time - April 1, 2008. Saskatoon SK

It's early in the morning. No. Wait. That's a fake story. It's late morning and The Gruff are gently sleeping in cozy beds surrounded by sillouettes of naked women at Lydia's in Saskatoon. From my part of the giant bed (it's three pushed together that fill the whole room...) I can see that it's going to be a beautiful day. The sky is clear and blue and the branches I can see aren't blowing around too much which is good. The wind here in Saskatoon is cold! I have recently become enamoured with Saskatoon. Or at least the part of it that we've seen so far. Our show last night at Lydia's was great. A nice bunch of folks came out... much more than we were anticipating would come out on a Monday night to our first show here ever. I think their presence had a lot to do with our wonderful new Saskatoon friends who have been talking our show up to people for the last two weeks. Ryan Boldt from the Deep Dark Woods played a beautiful set at the beginning of the night with help from Luke on pedal steel. I think my heart broke about nine times and I actually had to brush a few tears away at least once during their set but it was just wonderful. Then we were lucky enough to have Luke sit in with us for our sets which is just about our favourite thing ever. And although we weren't able to figure out how to get him to Wadena and back I'm sure we've got another official member of the Gruff Army ready to be called into action at a later date. We've had pretty decent luck with sound so far on this tour and last night was another great sound night. At the end of the show everyone was just tired enough and satisfied with a job well done (we did our partying the night before...) so just chatted a bit with some new friends and then hit the hay. Today it's off to Wadena. When we told people that was our next stop they seemed very surprised so now we're kind of excited to see what we'll find...
(p.s. April fools! Adam didn't really pass out on the Jagermeister bathroom floor!)
March 31, 2008. Saskatoon SK

Loaded up on Saskatoon berry pancakes courtesy of Kent's mom and dad we bid farewell for now to the lovely Iron Choir and headed off into the prairies of Alberta bound for Saskatoon. The prairies are currently nice barren shades of beige with some white highlights where there are patches of old snow on the cold ground and the flat grey of snow sky. We got very excited about the badlands at Drumheller (and the dinosaurs!) and slightly bored of flatness before we finally reached Saskatoon just in time to sneak into a house concert late where The Heartstrings were playing. One of the members of the Deep Dark Woods and their sound man play in The Heartstrings so everyone we know in Saskatoon (about four people) was there. We headed back to Lydia's after the concert and got a couple of games of pool in with our new friends before crashing out upstairs in the newly refinished Lydia's band room which actually isn't that bad since they gave us clean sheets and towels and will be even better when the bar opens so we can go get some more toilet paper. The most exciting part is the Jager girls painted on the walls of one of the bed rooms. What we like to call the Jager girls are black sillouettes of skinny, large chested, mostly naked (save for some high heels of course) ladies that are all over the walls. Here are our real life versions of the Jager girls photographed this morning with artistic direction from Luke our trusty Saskatoon guide (and photographer).

We just got back from a radio slot at CFCR here in Saskatoon to promote our show at Lydia's tonight. It was fun and we got to see a bit more of downtown Saskatoon which isn't very big but seems pretty nice. The streets on the prairies are really wide. It's fun. We're all really excited about the show tonight and are hoping that a bunch of people will come out and see us. Luke who drums with The DDW also plays steel and is going to open tonight with Ryan from the DDW and then sit in with us for our set too. We're very excited and are currently plotting how to kidnap him and bring him to Wadena with us tomorrow....
March 29, 2008. Calgary AB
Apart from the terribly frustrating stage sound at The Royal, our brief time in Fernie was just about as exciting and wonderful as we thought it would be. Big Bubba Tres and K-Mac and the IC were awesome. We got to hang out in the same room on separate computers and eat a wonderful meal together. There was some beer drinking and loud talking, guitar playing and playful wrestling and then it was time to hit the hay.

computer time!
Breakfast in Fernie with our friend Troy Cook is just about the best thing ever. Troy is our favourite part of Fernie. Everytime we play there we end up having to leave really early the next morning and Troy always gets up and meets us for breakfast no matter what time we kept him up until the night before. Today we had to get up early to hit the road because Calgary's famous A Bar Named Sue got the boot from their venue by the landlord. We were booked there tonight with Kent and the Iron Choir but then they contacted us while we were in Ontario to tell us that tonight is their last night and they felt really bad about asking us to remove ourselves from the bill so that they could have some local bands that have been with them over the years play the big night. We sadly accepted and the guy who runs the bar very generously found us another show in Calgary for this afternoon. We didn't really want to do it but didn't think the financial loss of giving up the Sue Bar gig was a good idea and accepted it. It turned out to be a pretty low on the scale show with about four people in attendance all afternoon. They all liked it but there were only four of them. We managed to convince Kent's new lap player Chris to get up early and come with us to play the show which we were very happy for because it was kind of like jamming with our new friend on stage with a sound system for a bit of money. Now we're all settled in at Kent's parents house. The boys have gone down to Sue Bar to partake in the festivities and the girls are quietly drinking NeoCitran in bed to cram all the rest we possibly can into the small amount of time that we have off. Tomorrow we're heading to Saskatoon. We're taking the highway through Drumeheller and I'm hoping we'll get to stop at the dinosaurs.

Troy's band, Kent and the IC and us Gruffs after the show in Fernie.
March 28, 2008. Fernie BC
Well! It's been a busy tour so far! Right now I'm sitting in an old hotel room in the upstairs of the Royal Hotel in Fernie where we'll be playing tonight with Kent McAlister and the Iron Choir and Big Bubba Tres. They've converted the upstairs into typical band accommodation: a welcome change to the usual cramped quarters albeit a little dingy (I don't want to know what that stain on the floor is....) We've just had a wonderful meal complements of the bar and are awaiting the hordes of crazy snowboarders (who make up the largest percent of the population here) to fill the bar and partake in our show. I guess I'll start way back at the beginning... you have much to catch up on!
First there came Vancouver. We played at a venue called Lime which we haven't been to since it changed from RIME. Lime is now a fairly swanky sushi bar. Most people seemed to appreciate the food (I didn't try it) although found it a little on the pricey side. Very tasty though! Anyway, the joint was packed! We got to meet our new management ladies endearingly referred to as MOM and tons of our awesome Vancouver fans came out to see us on our way. We sold a bunch of CDs and called it a night pretty early.

Taylor Ashton's depiction of Gruff.
The next morning brought a late start. We met MOM for breakfast and got a little carried away chatting about imporant music business stuff like going shopping for new clothes. Then had to drive all over Vancouver picking up important things like our video camera and Adam both of which spent the night elsewhere. (pretty soon we'll have some live footage up somewhere... myspace? sonicbids? youtube? wherever it ends up, we'll let you know) Anyway, we thought we were going to be late for sound check in Penticton but were just enjoying being on the highway again in the Goose so much that we didn't really mind too miuch. And it payed off! Traffic was good and the Goose made it up all the mountains at a reasonable pace bringing us into the parking lot at the Dream Cafe in Penticton right on schedule.

The Dream Cafe is a really great little venue in downtown Penticton. Wednesday night was my first visit to the Cafe and it sure is everything it's made out to be. They just finished some renovations and the whole place is just dedicated to music. It's wonderful. The tables are all set on tiers so you can see the stage from everywhere, the sound was fantastic and the audience was just plain wonderful and lovely. I arrived at the Dream Cafe with mixed feelings due to the extent of trouble we had to go through to get the gig at all but I left feeling glad that we did it. The whole place was packed and it was a really wonderful show. One of those times that reminds you why we do it.
After Penticton we headed over to Nelson for another first show. This one was at a bar called The Royal where everyone was super sweet. We had another first during the show when Jenny's body finally gave in to the flu she's been fighting off and we had to stop playing in the middle of the show so Terri could take Jenny to the hospital while Phaedra and Adam played the blues with Kelly, the soundman and saviour of the day. After some fever reducing, stop that coughing Tylenol with a punch, Jenny was ready for sleeping and we were all crossing our fingers that things would be better in the morning.

A nice four hour drive brings us to Fernie BC where Jenny is currently curled up in bed with her laptop getting all the rest she can before we Gruff up Fernie in a few hours. She's feeling a little better now and we're hoping all will go well. The rest of the gang is hanging out in the bar watching hockey and playing pool where I think I will go join them now.
March 22, 2008. Victoria BC
I know, I know, we haven't left yet. I can't help it. I'm excited. I'm sure you're all wondering why I've called you here. Well, once we got home I was reminded that I made a journal entry on the last tour that involved something scary and exciting that happened in a kitchen in Toronto. Well, now that we're home, I'm allowed to tell you what happened that day.... It all started with a pair of scissors and a bit of convincing. Then just like that, Jenny went and cut all of Adam's hair off! Here's the new do:

Nice work Jenny! Adam has taken to trying to get it to stand up as high and crazy as he possibly can. And now that everyone at home has seen the new haircut, I'm allowed to post pictures of Adam again. Yay!