Posts Tagged: Kingston
Hockey At Work II
Posted by on Thursday, February 17, 2005 in - 5 comments
Shots from the rink today. Every one loves the Zamboni driver. Who else is cool and only goes 5 mph? Here is a short short movie of that special something that entrances each and every Canadian in action: [.mpg, 6.5 MB]. All pictures clickable.
Hockey At Work
Posted by on Thursday, February 17, 2005 in - leave a comment
Saturday sees hockey on the rink built over the last two weeks on Market Square behind work. From the tenuously linkability of the Whig: • “Confirmed for Saturday's Limestone Classic tournament, from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the ice at Market Square, are: hockey hall of famer Dale Hawerchuk …
PMPM Downstairs
Posted by on Tuesday, February 15, 2005 in - leave a comment
...and I never knew. From The Star: • “Martin spoke in Memorial Hall at Kingston's City Hall, surrounded by Maple Leaf flags and bathed in soft light seeping through stained-glass windows dedicated to the Canadian dead of the First World War. The windows bear the names of great and terrible …
Cat Show
Posted by on Sunday, February 6, 2005 in - 5 comments
Middle cat: "If we do get out - remember to set the ray guns to kill." • So I guess I won a good Dad star today. Being in a room with 200 prize cats and 400 owners of prize cats is weird, then not so weird, then it is just weird. Judging requires a little tinsel-stick waving according to these …
Freezing Fog
Posted by on Sunday, February 6, 2005 in - 4 comments
Dawn • Sun Up • I have only seen freezing fog or mist once before in Halifax on Christmas 1989 or 1990. Crystals of snowy frost build up on every living surface. Hope the dog was brought in.
More Zooming South
Posted by on Sunday, January 23, 2005 in - leave a comment
Last summer I took some shots through my binoculars to the south and was surprised how much there was to see. I have this idea that if I get just the right day I will be able to see White Face, the Olympic mountain over by Lake Placid a few hundred kilometres to the east. No such luck so far but … read more »
Snow At 2:28 PM
Posted by on Saturday, January 22, 2005 in - 5 comments
Home with the cold that is ranging though the kids' elementary school, there is great opportunity to do nothing and note nothings. Like the weather as forecast in amazingly accurate detail by the US Weather Service: • “SHORT TERM FORECAST • NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY • 127 PM EST … read more »
Sticky Bun Withdrawal
Posted by on Thursday, January 20, 2005 in - 3 comments
Much sadness met the news last week that Cards Bakery on King Street suffered from a fire. Cards was (and hopefully will be again) the home of the unreasonably large pastry. Like any good bakery they had day-olds for a ridiculously low price which, despite the apparent petrification the high sugar …
Regiopolis The First
Posted by on Monday, January 17, 2005 in - 5 comments
Kingston Bloggers Meeting
Posted by on Friday, January 14, 2005 in - leave a comment
I had a very nice time. It is a good thing once in a while to say you have had a very nice time and 20 years past undergrad it is good to say that a gathering of people in undergrad is a pleasant thing. Zoe (whose name 'nee is not her name unless it is) organized well. Good organizing as one … read more »
