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Adventures of the Elders Alberta Music

Captain’s Log, Tour Date 0001

[ed. note: Today Elder JA and his wife, Lady R, share their experiences on the first day of the Spring 2026 Mountain Sapphire World Tour!] The rental bus, formerly used by the Wolverine Eunuchs, proved to be a challenge right from the start.  Neither I or First Mate Lady R smoke and it took quite […]

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Let’s Have an Adventure!

It’s Adventure Day here at WLBOTT HQ! Adventures mean different things to different people. Let us explore. Bev, From HR Bev, from HR, wanted to challenge herself. She was determined to spend 24 hours in a batting cage, in preparation for the WLBOTT summer softball league. Introducing Elder G2 I asked Elder G and Elder […]

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Adventures of the Elders Alberta Music

2026 Mountain Sapphire World Tour

THE MOST IMPORTANT MUSICAL EVENT IN CANADIAN HISTORY™Western Canada & Select Parking Lots For Immediate Release: Elder JA and Lady R Visit Tour Bus Rental Locations Barnaby’s Budget Band Cruisers ThunderWolf Gord, salesman of the month at ThunderWolf tour bus rentals (technically their only salesman), greets the young Mountain Sapphire couple. You may remember Gord, […]

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WLBOTT Tours Amazon

[Thanks to Muse-du-Jour Elder JimZim for setting up today’s tour] In what can only be described as a meeting of equals, WLBOTT toured the Amazon distribution center in Houston, Texas. Interestingly, the Amazon tour guidelines don’t ban smoking! We only bring this up because Sally the Intern‘s emotional support javelina decided to light one up […]

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A John 14 Moment

At WLBOTT, we enjoy a variety of religious experiences. For the most part, as long as our primary allegiance is to twine and shareholder value, we encourage our flock to seek their own path to truth. A few exceptions apply: we find dogmatic atheists and evangelical, magaT Christians to be equally tedious and stultifying[1]. And […]

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Where’s Elder JA?

Lady R, Elder JA‘s better half, now has a new tool at her disposal to track down JA. Just follow the tube! To help JA keep his tubing organized, Lady R put her knitting skills to work. They enjoy going on walks together, especially the three week spring-summer-fall when visiting Yellow Knife. On this day, […]

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O2 and Bonus N2

One of our Elders, Elder JA, recently came into possession of an oxygen concentrator. An oxygen concentrator is a device that concentrates the oxygen from a gas supply (typically ambient air) by selectively removing nitrogen to supply an oxygen-enriched product gas stream. They are used industrially, to provide supplemental oxygen at high altitudes, and as […]

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Adventures of the Elders Music

D Major

A delightful morning with Elder G! WLBOTT: Good morning, G. What musical key shall we sing in to welcome the day? ELDER G: Good morning, Elder JZ. If the morning were a doorway, the key you choose is the shape of the sunlight that slips through it. So let’s pick one that belongs to dawn. […]

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Adventures of the Elders Agriculture

Radishes, Part 3

This past Saturday we held the Spring 2026 Radish Harvest. The weather was mild, the radishes were plump, and our team of harvesters was enthusiastic. The Helper-Chickens can identify the radishes at the peak of tubular plumpness. A good rinsing before bringing the radishes into the WLBOTT Test Kitchen. Post-Harvest Preparations Waggie Logos? We are […]

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Spaghetti Analysis

WLBOTT:Let’s start today by describing a truly random real life event. This morning I sent an email to a WLBOTT Elder describing a nice spaghetti dinner we recently had. For the first time in my life, I spelled “spaghetti” right on the first try. Since there are only so many combinations of letters in the […]