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Profapalooza – Part 2
A few months back, Lisa described a few of her visits to capital cities across Australia. This was interrupted by Profapalooza – Hurricane Edition, when she was caught spending time with Sandy in Baltimore. Since then, Lisa has continued her … Continue reading
hot hot hot
OK, so it’s been a bit too long since we posted anything. At the time of last writing, Lisa was in Canada and Dan had been left behind to keep blogging. And now, she’s back in North America for a … Continue reading
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the yard is nothing but a fence
With Lisa away, I need to fill some blogging space so I thought I would complain about our garden. As I suffer through the horrible sunny high 20s/low 30s weather, she gets to enjoy the last throes of ‘superstorm’ Sandy … Continue reading
Posted in citrus, Edmonton, gardening, house, strawberries, wagga, weather
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Profapalooza: Hurricane Edition
Okay, so I (Lisa) know that I promised that part 2 of Profapalooza would be a continuation of my national Australian tour, but I had to take a side-trip before publishing that post… just a little side-trip, into the heart … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, floods, Hilton Baltimore, homesickness, Hurricane Sandy, weather
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Digger Dan
We quite often think of our situation here in terms of what things would be like in Edmonton, or even Ontario, six months off. Like today, for example, where it is the middle of winter in Wagga. In Edmonton terms, … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, Australia, citrus, cold, fruit, gardening, wagga, weather, winter
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Summer in my mind
Every year since the early 1980s, on Australia Day, Triple J radio (then called Double J…not sure what the story is there) plays the Hottest 100 songs from the year before. Australia Day, for those not in the know, is … Continue reading
Posted in beer, birds, cycling, rain, seasons, southern hemisphere, weather
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Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan
Continuing the musical theme from last post, in the words of Johnny Cash: “How high’s the water, Mama? 5 feet high and rising.” But to be more precise, it is 34 feet (10.4 m as we write, at 10 o’clock … Continue reading
Posted in danger, floods, Murrumbidgee, Riverina, wagga, wagga wagga, weather
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like a great big train…
When we first visited Wagga in early December 2010, it was a bit of a disaster zone. The 10 year drought had just ended, not with a whimper but with the skies around New South Wales opening up and wreaking … Continue reading
Posted in Canberra, floods, lake albert, Lockhart, rain, Riverina, travel, visitors, weather
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Guest blog – Fly me to…Wagga Wagga!
[Lisa edit: Writing this blog is hard work (yakka!) – we have to come up with ideas, we have to be creative and witty, we have to have photos… So we hope that anyone who comes to visit will be … Continue reading
summer in the city
Lisa has been in North America for almost 2 weeks, so I’ve been learning about what Wagga is like in the summer. She did this to me when we moved to Edmonton too…went back to Ontario for her PhD defense … Continue reading
Posted in aclimatizing, airport, Australia, beer, cycling, Edmonton, Uncategorized, wagga, wagga wagga, weather
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