Québec produces close to 80% of the world’s maple syrup; the early spring thaw is cabane à sucre (“sugar shack”) season here, when the maple trees are tapped and the sap cooked down into the treacly stuff we all love on our pancakes and waffles.… [Read More]
A lot of houses in this neighborhood have narrow little gardens between the sidewalk and the stairs, and many are filled with tulips!
It was our first weekend after moving in, and there was no internet. So on that Saturday, I went on a morning adventure that was an urbanist trifecta: I bicycled, walked, and took the metro.… [Read More]
After six months in California laboring to reduce our load of possessions and make an all-encompassing list of them for the Canadian government (required for settling in Canada), weeks of getting our new tenant installed and repairing newly-discovered defects in the ADU, and days of cleaning, schlepping, and shuffling all our household and personal items around to pack and make way for the caretaker, we finally got to sit still for five hours on the plane flying us to Montreal for the summer.… [Read More]
Online again… More posts to follow.
Despite all my whingeing about the internet situation, things are going pretty well up here. I’ll try to bring you up to date.
Friday, I went to the public library, where I was able to use the public WiFi to upload the pictures for this posting.… [Read More]
Using a phone as a hot-spot to provide internet is less than ideal, especially if you’re a programmer. I’ve already burned through most of my 5GB roaming data for the month.… [Read More]
We’re in our new place, and are getting adjusted. This is our second time renting a furnished apartment, and we’re discovering that different people define “furnished” in different ways. For example, this place has a full on wine closet but no toaster.… [Read More]
We took a really big airplane to get to Montréal from Los Angeles.
I mean, just look at it!
Seat-back map imageThe flight was largely uneventful and somewhat less grueling than past flights.… [Read More]
Whew! Just in time for our next sojourn North of the Border, Apple has implemented the newly approved moose emoji.
It should be visible above if you’re running an operating system that supports Emoji 15.0.… [Read More]
