Got to spend a fantastic Christmas with Natasha’s family in Winnipeg – my favourite part of the night is rocking out with Ron and Uncle Jim on guitars while we all sing Christmas carols and eat cookies. Happy holidays!
Merry Christmas from Winnipeg
December 25th, 2011 · No Comments · Observations
Need a Wider Blog
December 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · Photography, Winnipeg
Caught some deer out by the airport as we drove out to pick up Mom from work – and got a great panorama of Winnipeg while I was at it. Sorry if I’m reinforcing stereotypes – it’s not all fields, airports and grain elevators.
Tags: airport·deer·Panorama·Winnipeg
New Ottawa Humane Society Building
June 28th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Observations, Ottawa, Winnipeg
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 [...]
Tags: Cats·Dogs·Humane Society·OHS·Ottawa·Winnipeg
Question Period: The Musical
June 27th, 2011 · No Comments · Observations, Ottawa, Review
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 [...]
Tags: Fringe·Ottawa Fringe·Question Period: The Musical!·trauma·Winnipeg
Update Dump
June 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Observations, Ottawa
I’ve been a bit overwhelmed lately and tend to dissappear off my blog for a bit when that happens, so I thought I should at least do a big bullet list of updates:
Saw Terminator 4 – really cool action, so-so storyline. The “Terminator Mythos” was really cleverly intertwined in the previous movies, but this one [...]
Tags: Art in the Park·Biking·Glebe·Ortho·Terminator 4·Winnipeg
Our Road Trip Begins
September 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Travel
Natasha and I are on our way! Our plans are already a little behind schedule because the movers had to come late, but once they showed up everything went really smoothly. It helped that we started packing 2 weeks ago – pretty much everything was boxed up and ready to go. (And we even had [...]
Tags: boxes·moving·Ottawa·road trip·Winnipeg
Winnipeg out my window
April 15th, 2002 · No Comments · Photography, Winnipeg
Looking out from my 22nd story balcony, this is what I see. I’ve annotated the image to highlight a number of points of interest.