Sylvain and I went to the MTL Pride parade yesterday; it was a homegrown affair but with abundant color and music and smiles.
Here are a few photos and three short videos of an Irish-dancing rainbow, two-stepping white hats, and a good ol’ cheer squad going to town.… [Read More]
We haven’t gone on about it too much here on the blog, but when we moved into this furnished apartment it was a *disaster.* Filthy from the drawers to the floors, broken appliances, an unmade bed with a pile of crumbs on the chair next to it….just… [Read More]
(R.O.C. = Rest of Canada, whose federal holidays Québec likes to rename and rebrand as Québec-centric celebrations.)
Victoria Day, which celebrates the birthday of Queen Vicky, isn’t so popular here in Québec due to the many years of oppression of the Québec French by the English ruling class.… [Read More]
Sure you do, from our 2022 rental building:
That voice! Sexy Elevator!Now, in 2024, we have Banshee Bathroom Fan:
Banshee Bathroom Fan, or “Boggart of the Bog”The shrieking usually goes away after a couple minutes, but: le sigh.… [Read More]
To get to the parking spot on the other side!
This is a delivery vehicle for St. Hubert, a massive restaurant chain and frozen/ready-to-eat food enterprise here in Québec (not unlike Marie Callender’s in the States, with less emphasis on dessert pies).… [Read More]
What the hecque?? We get on the plane to Québec and land in San Diego’s Historic Gaslamp Quarter???
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]
Autumn’s here, but Rue-Sainte-Catherine is still busy, and there’s a lot going on in and around the village.
Here’s a few views in the neighborhood.
The Village in Late Summer (click to enlarge)
