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weekender, one
New year and new “weekend” report title. The Weekend Wrap is becoming the Weekender for 2026, so stay tuned for rambling reports on how we spent ours. The Kid went out on Friday, so Karin and I dug a gift card out of the archives and hit the local pub for drinks and dinner. The
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janu-funk status update
The problem with having so many outdoor hobbies and also living in a city that is frozen solid for four months of the year comes down to the problem of January. January sucks in that regard. I could suck it up, of course, and go out winter hiking or put on my cross country skis
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Foggy Downtown Breakdown
I drove to work this morning and where usually the sparkling towers of #yeg downtown greet me from across the valley, glass and concrete pillars of light twinkling through the morning twilight, today it was just ghostly silhouettes and hints of light pushing through the #fog and frozen moisture in the air.
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Friday Fires, Winter Snow Edition
When I checked out of work for the week at the end of the day today, the sun was still high enough in the sky for it to be considered daylight. It’s been cold for most of the week, that deep, chilling cold that makes it difficult to do much besides curl up on the
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Froze Up
About thirty six hours before I sat down to pen this post the city where I live got hit by a small ice storm. I mean, technically, the weather service called it “freezing rain” but after an hour of that particular meteorological event (whatever one chooses to call it) every outdoor surface had been covered