The Wailin' Jennys

R and I had a date night out last weekend to grab dinner at Barrio and see The Wailin' Jennys at the Pantages theater. It was great!

 

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Dinner out with Jack and Gloria

We had a really nice dinner out at Pizzeria Pezzo with my godparents. They treated us as a belated anniversary gift. It took this long for us to find a free night for it!

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Winnipeg Folk Fest 2025

Since the Folk Fest started cracking down on professional looking cameras in, this post will be limited to iPhone snapshots only. I also took a few on film, but those are still waiting on development and not included here.

There was a lot of smoke in the air this year (from the wildfires, not the people), which was not ideal, but otherwise, the weather worked out well. It only stormed at night and only got exceedingly hot during our partial days on Thursday and Sunday.

It felt unusual -- although not a bad thing, necessarily -- that it was just the four of us there this year. R's family of origin usually joins in one form or another, but they had some other things going on.

 

It was the festival's 50th anniversary!

Gillian Welch was my highlight of the year:

Hippies:

Stilt-walker and my tarp shuffle ticket:

Sooooo many people in attendance this year...

The Gustavo show in the kids' tent (left) and a sleepy show at Shady Grove (right):

We made a point of getting a good spot for this show because Ani DiFranco was on the roster, but her plane was delayed and she missed it entirely. We likely would have been able to get her autograph too :-(.

Our camping spot had a lot of shade for a change. Cheeseballs have become a tradition!

Photo by R (thanks for getting me in the frame):

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Meeting baby Lucia

We swung by C&M's place in Bemidji to meet their lovely new baby, Lucia.

Auntie snuggles:

Alice is not a baby anymore!

She loves her older cousin Veronica:

The new (again) parents:

Omri and Lennon had a jump (with a sprinkler under the trampoline):

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Quick visit at Grandma Linda's

On the afternoon of the 4th, we drove over to Grandma Linda's house. We got our suits on and headed down to the lake... just in time for a big storm to hit!

 

We jumped in the lake the next morning instead.

Cameo by me and Lennon:

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Celebrating Independence Day on the Range

My dad was in the Gilbert 3rd of July parade again...

... with his piece of gym floor:

Parade goers:

Thought this was kind of cool:

"Let's go amuse some people..."

The next day, on the lake:

Picking up Mason from the Sparta beach:

Girl cousins:

Warming up:

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