Saturday, March 19, 2011 Home: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Big hurrah, there was more grit in the box at the fire station. In fact, it was even sandy and not just the sharp little pebbles I posted about before. This winter. Man. It’s snowed and thawed and snowed and thawed more times than I can remember […]

Friday, March 18, 2011

Home: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Woo ee, date night.

Or so they say!

Thursday, March 17, 2011 Home: Calgary, Alberta, Canada It was indeed St. Patrick’s Day. I didn’t do a darn thing about it. Didn’t wear green, didn’t drink green beer, didn’t put on a silly hat that says, “Kiss me, I’m Irish”. Didn’t eat Irish stew, didn’t try dancing without moving my arms, didn’t dye my […]

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 Home: Calgary, Alberta, Canada The poor weather was good luck for us: we got parking on the street in Kensington. Let me repeat: we got parking on the street in Kensington. I actually avoid Kensington, even though it’s one of Calgary’s more interesting commercial spots, because of the parking. Yes, I […]

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 Home: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Ate at Mango Shiva on a Saturday night before the theatre recently. This is a restaurant right downtown, on Stephen Avenue Mall. The food, very good. Reasonable price, especially compared to some of the other restaurants in the downtown area. But it took a long time between […]

Monday, March 14, 2011 Home: Calgary, Alberta, Canada I’ve been going to Alberta Theatre Projects (ATP) for years and years with two friends. The plays are always thought-provoking. Saw one of this year’s new playRites plays, by Mieko Ouchi. It was a kind of Raymond Chandler detective story with a distinctly Canadian element. Good play. […]

Sunday, March 13, 2011 Home: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Would have been a good day to take in a cheap movie if I had only thought of it in time! Now that I have NetFlix it’s easier to see a movie at home, but NetFlix in Canada has a lot of gaps. How long are video […]

Saturday, March 12, 2011 Home: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Even though the tall buildings on the north side of the Calgary Tower are crowding out some of the view, it’s still a great ride to sit at the top of the tower and eat your dinner while looking out the window watching Calgary and southern Alberta […]

Friday, March 11, 2011 Home: Calgary, Alberta, Canada If you fly into Calgary on Air Canada, you often find yourself at the “A” end of the terminal. There’s a bronze statue of a cowboy’s head, huge, you can’t miss it. That’s Sam Livingston. He was one of Calgary’s pioneers, originally from Ireland. He had a […]

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Home: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Maybe I just need to stop being friends with people on the west coast.

One has already got heirloom tomato plants sprouting in her outdoor greenhouse.

Another is blogging about daffodils and such like.

We aren’t.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011 Home: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Primal Grounds, 3003 – 37 Street SW Looks like it might have started life as a Dairy Queen. Run by a lady who makes soup and sells it at the Kingsland Farmers’ Market. We didn’t want soup, we wanted breakfast, and we weren’t disappointed. The choice was […]

Tuesday, March 8, 2011 Home: Calgary, Alberta, Canada We have the opportunity for great outdoor skating here, and indoors too. My favorites: Bowness Park for outdoors. You get on the lagoon and just go, it’s wide open, and there’s the pleasant smell of woodsmoke when they have the warming fires going. Olympic Oval for indoors. […]

Monday, March 7, 2011

Home: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

I don’t even have to drive to work and I still hate Mondays.

Sunday, March 6, 2011 Home: Calgary, Alberta, Canada The best thing about living in southern Alberta might just be that beautiful blue sky. Had it back again today. The temp was about -10 at mid-day. Perfect. Took the dogs for a walk and chipped some hard snow off the sidewalk. Still have more to do but […]

Saturday, March 5, 2011 Home: Calgary, Alberta, Canada I took the dogs out for a walk, since it was sunny and not nearly as cold as it’s been this week. Only about -10 C. This picture from about two weeks ago shows the east side of the Harry Hays Building on 4th Avenue SE, right […]

The Answer is: Owen Sound, Ontario Clue #1: Billy Bishop, Canadian World War One Flying Ace, was born and raised here. The Billy Bishop Regional Airport is named after him, and the family home is now the Billy Bishop Home and Museum. Clue #2 said you can jump in the lake. Owen Sound is the […]

From yesterday’s Where Am I quiz, the fifth and final question was: Where am I? Your final clue (should be pretty obvious by now): Everyone likes the sound of this place so much they want to own it. That is a giveaway! Answer and explanation of the clues in the next post. Have you figured it […]

Yesterday’s Where Am I clue number four was:

Where am I?

Used to be pretty hard to get a drink around here.

This town was dry from 1917 until 1961.

Have you figured it out yet? One more clue and then the answer in the next two posts.

Clue Number Three from yesterday:

Have you figured out where I am yet?

The third clue: This is where you can see the Big Canoe in winter.

The name of the Big Canoe in Ojibwa is Chi-Cheemaun.

Yesterday’s Clue Number 2 post said:

Where am I?

Clue number two: Once you get here, you can jump in the lake.

And the answer:

This place is so close to the water you have to cross a piece of Lake Huron to get from one side of downtown to the other.