I have a couple hours free... so I'll do a half-month one.
June 1-15(ish), 2019.
Shit to genuinely less shitty.
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Went out on a freezing, foggy day to hike. Hiding from the wind, I took a different way down for the first time. ALMOST made it, but ended up on a series of cliff edges. I'd have to come in through someone's roof to get down, so, back up and around.
But the view was best kind.
Only had my mobile with me, so mobile zoom...
The houses out in Cahill's Point (on the other side of the harbour from the above) also cling to the cliffs. The poetic description, at least at night, is lights strung along a Christmas tree. As a general rule, if you have mobility issues here, you need to move to mainland Canada.
They should film car commercials on the Southside Road.
Looking back toward Downtown (left), Fort William (centre), and the Battery (along the right coast) neighbourhoods.
St. John's is absolutely surrounded by abandoned American military installations (we were VERY important in WWII - Churchill, Roosevelt, and whoever else even met here).
The most beloved of the local groceries. Any British import you could want, they carry - the older folks love the place.
So, Aja is the latest Ru Paul's Drag Race alum to come to the city. We are HUGE on drag. They've all been here - Bianca, Kim Chi, Tatiana, Detox, Manila, etc, etc, etc. It's worth the money for promoters to bring them here because everyone goes, even the straights. So, Rockhouse (straight punk/rock bar) held a competition for local amateur queens (most performing for the first time) to win the chance to open for Aja.
And kings.
Then, ANOTHER NICE DAY, finally. I was up with the sun and the fog...
Not wanting to go to work...
We've been invaded by the French, Dutch, and countless others. That would've been a good day if they were still interested. Our economy could use a good invasion, and we couldn't see shit.
Days later, out for a run, still foggy.
And days later still, woke up and stepped out my front door to this...
So went downhill to downtown...
ALMOST down to sea level...
And then, later... it seemed nice starting our 10-mile run in the western edge of the suburban East End...
But the closer we got to downtown, the worse it got...
And now up to the present days... the whales have arrived! We're right where the icebergs traveling south and whales traveling north cross paths.
The sun came out... and then went away...
Our Big Dig went on...
Sun came out again for a minute on Father's Day...
And then it went away again...
Oh boy, did it ever...
But TODAY, LITERALLY TODAY, DAYS LATER, the fog finally broke...
So, fingers crossed.