Above the average temps and lots of fog

December 2023

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My partner and my home. Love our shared life, home, aesthetic choices, and causes to support.

One of the many extremely foggy mornings this December.

Elim Chapel to left and Junior’s to the right. Junior’s is a hamburger joint that is purportedly the birth place of the fat boy burger. Biking past it everyday to work, it seems like the aesthetic hasn’t changed since the 1990s.

Another foggy evening.

On one my walks out.

I will never get over a crisp winter morning light.

My partner on her winter bike. I have fallen in love with winter cycling over the years and it has been lovely to bike around wintery Winnipeg with her. (Although this December hasn’t been that snowy at all.)

Taken by my partner. Me and my sister at an All out for Palestine Rally. During Christmas, the weeks usually pass by with advent Sundays however this year Palestine protests seemed to mark the passage of time. This one was the third weekend of December.

Trivia at the Goodwill Social Club hosted by Jeff Sinclair has been a staple of our monday evenings over the last year and a half. We went to the final trivia hosted by Jeff. There are still going to be more trivia Mondays until the Goodwill closes in Feb 2024 but this one seemed to mark an end of an era.

The Goodwill Social Club has been my go to social venue for my 20s. It played a pivotal role these past 10 years as it has for so many other young adults in Winnipeg. It will be missed.

I took part and helped capture photos for the day of Mennonite Action (Dec 19), where Mennonites across North America gathered outside their local representatives and protested and called for a ceasefire.

More foggy mornings.

The Nutty Club also said ceased operations. Truthfully I didn’t even know that it was still going, but sad to see another Winnipeg institution bite the dust.

My brother and partner.

Christmas Eve candlelight service

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We decided last minute to catch a ride with a friend driving back to Saskatoon so we could stay with him and his partner. I love Saskatoon and it is one of the only other cities in Canada that I have deep family connections and history, as well as extensive childhood memories from visiting it over the years. It’s the city where my parents met, married and started their life together. It’s also the resting place of my grandparents and uncle. In may ways, Saskatoon feels like my second home in Canada.

These benches were in a gentrified area of saskatoon close to the Remai Modern art gallery. There were long benches which invited people to sit down, however right beside it there was also a “No loitering” sign, essentially saying “People can sit and hang out here but only the ‘right’ kind of people and as long as they don’t look poor.”

Saskatoon river on a beautiful morning.

Robin Hood flour mill. My aunt worked there in the 80s and one winter day brought home some dough to use. She left it outside under the stairs to let it freeze but forgot about it until one spring day she saw her dog walking outside a little funny. Still love to tell people the story about the time her dog got drunk from eating fermented dough.

Woke up early to go for a walk with my partner and my sister.

“Partner and sister looking serious” seems to be turning into a photo series.

Walking along one of the bridges that cross the Saskatchewan River.

Looking at some art at the Remai Modern

Went with friends to go see a Saskatoon Rush (Saskatoon’s box lacrosse team) game on New Year’s eve. My sister made a comment of feeling like she was observing white people culture. When everyone starting banging their chest in unison just like Matthew McConaughey in Wolf of Wall Street after every goal scored, she said she felt like she was in a cult.

Yeah I didn’t think a box lacrosse game would be how I would end this December post or 2023 for that matter but that’s what happened and I appreciated expanding my new year’s eve activities besides the predictable New Year’s eve parties. 2024, not sure what you will have in store but here’s to more of those “box lacrosse on new years’s eve” moments.