This little guy jumped out at us at Hog’s Back Park and begged to have his picture taken.

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My dad and I demolished and then re-built the roof of my back shed Sunday afternoon, which was probably poor timing on my part due to the ongoing heat wave and the sudden onset of a crazy storm that snapped trees all over the neighbourhood and blew down the Bluesfest Stage.
Luckily, we had the last [...]

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Parliament Hill was a bit of a zoo this year – just me and 300,000 of our closest friends. There were actually only 8 folks I needed to account for, a fun gang of visual effects alumni who all happened to be on the east coast at the same time. Although we ended [...]

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Natasha and I paid a visit to the new Ottawa Humane Society Building on Hunt Club to make some new friends, and the facility is tremendous! Big open hallways, a green exterior, and lots of communal play areas for the animals make it a huge improvement from the old building on Preston.

When we first pulled [...]

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In Winnipeg the Fringe Festival is a big deal – Natasha and I joined the throngs of people wandering the exchange looking for fun and interesting independent performances. That is until the awful day I gave into one of Natasha’s ‘audience participation’ picks, and got called up on stage and made to do dog tricks [...]

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A big congratulations to Natasha for busting a move at the “Carnival of Cultures” downtown over the weekend, flawlessly performing her Bollywood dance routine with the dance group she joined just a few weeks ago.

They had an enormous stage set up and a pretty prime location at city hall, but with almost zero [...]

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Saturday May 14th, Montreal’s amazing ukulele-playing folk-rock performer Krista Muir is going to be in Ottawa at Raw Sugar as part of the launch tour for her new album “Between Atoms!”. Not only will she be joined by the dashing Jesse Dangerously (who strangely keeps touring with unrelated artists I like) – but her alter-ego, [...]

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Periodically (I think wind direction is the primary factor?) the Ottawa airport routes all the incoming air traffic directly over our house.  Because they’re coming down not far from here, most of them fly over with their gear down, well within waving altitude. I don’t mind the bit of noise they make – [...]

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On our weekend walk Natasha and I were excited to discover that the ducks are back in our neighbourhood and are poking for bugs in a puddle that, during the summer, is normally a tennis court. They didn’t seem to mind having a duck-wannabe floating around next to them trying to blend in.

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I thought I’d dazzle you all today with a pic of my cubicle at work – or at least the clean half of it.

I thought the photo montage was kindof clever when I came up with it. I printed off a bunch of pictures I thought were cool (like 12 cents each at [...]

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