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Ste. Rose du Lac

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The house I grew up in

Kath­leen had meet­ings in Dauphin today, so I took a side trip to Ste. Rose to have a look around.

The house I grew up in
I grew up here
Central Ave. in Ste. Rose, facing north from the library
Main St (Well, Cen­tral Ave)
Ste. Rose public library
The library
"Library" sign with the library in the background
The library
The grotto at Ste. Rose
The grot­to, a lit­tle flooded

It was a lit­tle weird dri­ving around in town. It’s been a while since I was there, and so there were spots where my men­tal map dif­fered from real­i­ty. There are a row of new con­dos along where the rail line used to go. The spot where a house once stood (the one I had in mind, in fact, when I wrote the line “a house crum­bling into gen­teel senes­cence”[1]what­ev­er that means) is now a vacant lot. Anoth­er house, which in my mem­o­ry is a pale yel­low some­where between lemon and sun­shine, has been re-sided in a dark mossy green.

You can go home, but it’s not gonna be the same.

I also got a cou­ple mul­ti-pho­to panora­mas of Rid­ing Moun­tain when I head­ed back to Dauphin to pick up my dar­ling wife.

Panoramic image of Riding Mountain
4‑photo panora­ma
Panoramic image of Riding Mountain
12-pho­to panorama

Foot­notes

Foot­notes
↑1 what­ev­er that means

Hercules

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A C-130 Hercules high in the sky

Right around lunch I heard the drone of an air­plane, and it sound­ed dif­fer­ent than a Cess­na: loud­er, maybe, or deep­er. I put the zoom lens on my cam­era and stepped out­side to see if I could find it.

It looks like a C‑130 Her­cules was tool­ing around. I got a cou­ple pho­tos for you to enjoy.

A C-130 Hercules high in the sky, with some bare tree branches in the foreground

Edmonton, 2024

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A photo of yours truly, refereeing at the Edmonton International Judo Tournament

We flew out to Edmon­ton this past week­end. Arrived Thurs­day after­noon, got to the rental car place, which was—predictably—out of the com­pact cars that I rent­ed. For the same price, they gave us a Mustang.

(What a ridicu­lous car.)

High­lights of the weekend:

  • Hang­ing out with family
  • Teach­ing Gra­cie to play crib
  • Spend­ing 28 hours at the West Edmon­ton Mall, most of it at the Ice Palace where they set up the judo mats
  • Pass­ing my Nation­al B ref­er­ee evaluation
  • Pret­zels with cin­na­mon sugar
  • A walk with Juliana to see hoodoos in the city
  • See­ing Mary at the airport—she was fly­ing out to Edmon­ton on the same plane we’d just returned on 
  • Park ‘n’ Fly washed our car while we were away
The tournament venue: four mat areas on board on top of the Ice Palace rink
All the referees at the tournament
The ship in the West Edmonton Mall
A clamp and duct tape holding a pane of glass in place at the West Edmonton Mall
The crib board after Gracie beat me.

As always: it’s fun to trav­el, but it’s sure nice to be home. Tomor­row is gonna be laun­dry day.