Sunday afternoon I heard a loud droning noise from above and looked up over downtown Ottawa just in time to catch a fleet of biplanes and WW2 Canadian warplanes flying in formation. I wasn’t aware of any military celebrations, but Greg suggested it could be the Vintage Wings of Canada out on a practice flight [...]

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While I’m on the subject of grumpy news… we’re finding the Junebug grubs especially frustrating this year – our neighbourhood seems to have a scourge of them devouring our lawns in wide patches.
Natasha and I are wary about using insecticide – but we tried to dig up some of the grubs along the munching wavefront [...]

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Snapped a picture looking out over the experimental farm through this morning’s rolling fog. Those are trees and a little shed. No horizon line, though – just white meeting white.

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I went downtown tonight with some flowers to drop off at the Danielle Nacu memorial on Queen and O’Connor. Someone thoughtfully put up a “Ghost Bike” and I wasn’t the first to get there.

This one struck close to home when I read about it. Danielle died Tuesday morning when she got “doored” by an illegally [...]

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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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Natasha and I joined some visiting friends on a haunted walk of Ottawa! I’m probably the last guy you’d want to invite on a haunted anything, but I bit my tongue and had a lot of fun. I learned a few things too – did you know that the east end of Sparks Street is [...]

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I became interested in Ottawa’s hidden lakes when I had an extra-long wait one rainy afternoon at a bus stop. The OC Transpo route map has bodies of water marked out in a weird shade of blue that makes all the little urban tributaries pop off the page. I couldn’t believe how many lakes and [...]

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I was lucky to catch a (blurry) photo this evening of the ISS flying over Ottawa as it does a couple of rare orbits across the night and day line of the earth (the terminator). As it goes over us in the dark, it’s still in the light of the sun, reflecting super brightly. Here [...]

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I took our friends visiting from Winnipeg out to the Museum of Civilization in Hull on Friday, and while the normal museum was pretty great (especially the Canada Hall), the special exhibit about Afghanistan was really incredible. Apparently the display was made possible due to the quick thinking on the part of Afghan museum curators [...]

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Saw a crazy accident last night while driving Natasha and her friend home from Ikea. While I was yielding to turn right from Pinecrest to Richmond, a car that was being followed by a police car charged the red heading west on Richmond and PLOWED through the back of a grey SUV that was crossing [...]

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