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frandroid1) do you have a go-to vacation spot or do you like to try somewhere new? Expound.
We don't have a vacation spot... I mean there is a lodge just outside Algonquin Provincial Park that we've kind of favoured, but it's been a while.
I didn't know that there were Roman ruins outside of Italy until I saw a Roman arena in Nîmes, years ago. The Romans and the Greeks have built some pretty cool stuff so it's nice to visit those. So we went to Turkey (*obviously??*) and then to Italy and Greece for our most recent Big Vacations. F wants to visit the Pyramids... In a different app I saw one of my contacts simply drop in Cairo for a couple days on her way back to China.
2) what are your favorite and not-favorite qualities of the people you live with?
a) my partner is goofy and she's rebellious.
b) my partner is stubborn even in the face of being demonstrably wrong
3) what’s a precious childhood (pre-teenage years) memory?
My family owns some forested land on hillside. In winter, we would get on the skidoo and go there. My father would log some wood, and I would just be hanging out in the forest, or sliding and fighting with my sisters if they were there. In the 80s, when unemployment was a common occurrence in winter, my father and his brother would make maple syrup in early spring. You would enter the sugar shack and the air would be saturated with maple sap steam, a delightful smell. Before they installed tubing, I would drink the delicious sugar water collecting in the metal buckets hanging from the sugar maples.* I miss that. I should go on hikes more often, at the very least.
*: If you drank too much, you got the runs, so you had to not abuse it.
4) tell me about your childbirth (or adoption if you did that) experience
n/a
5) where do your parents’ families come from?
I think that all 10 generations of men before me lived in northern Québec City, within 20 kilometres from where I was born, since our first ancestor settled in the country in the 1660s. In 1905, the Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides parish was founded in northern Charlesbourg and it's my understanding that the last 4 to 6 generations of my father's family have lived there. That first North American ancestor came from Île de Ré, an island off the coast of France, near La Rochelle. They named a street after him there--one of my cousins visited once. My father was raised in a house that was 5 minutes drive from where I grew up. (My father built a house in Stoneham when he married my mother, and then he built a new one in Charlesbourg when I was 6 years old, so I consider the latter to be Where I Grew Up). Even though my direct paternal line stayed in the original area of settlement, there are people bearing my surname across the province.
On my mother's side, I don't know the genealogy, but it is probably similar to my father's, i.e. French colonization from the mid to late 1600s. My mother was raised in a house that was literally 10 minutes' walk away from where I did most of my growing up. Her surname is also common across the province, though less so than my father's.
We don't have a vacation spot... I mean there is a lodge just outside Algonquin Provincial Park that we've kind of favoured, but it's been a while.
I didn't know that there were Roman ruins outside of Italy until I saw a Roman arena in Nîmes, years ago. The Romans and the Greeks have built some pretty cool stuff so it's nice to visit those. So we went to Turkey (*obviously??*) and then to Italy and Greece for our most recent Big Vacations. F wants to visit the Pyramids... In a different app I saw one of my contacts simply drop in Cairo for a couple days on her way back to China.
2) what are your favorite and not-favorite qualities of the people you live with?
a) my partner is goofy and she's rebellious.
b) my partner is stubborn even in the face of being demonstrably wrong
3) what’s a precious childhood (pre-teenage years) memory?
My family owns some forested land on hillside. In winter, we would get on the skidoo and go there. My father would log some wood, and I would just be hanging out in the forest, or sliding and fighting with my sisters if they were there. In the 80s, when unemployment was a common occurrence in winter, my father and his brother would make maple syrup in early spring. You would enter the sugar shack and the air would be saturated with maple sap steam, a delightful smell. Before they installed tubing, I would drink the delicious sugar water collecting in the metal buckets hanging from the sugar maples.* I miss that. I should go on hikes more often, at the very least.
*: If you drank too much, you got the runs, so you had to not abuse it.
4) tell me about your childbirth (or adoption if you did that) experience
n/a
5) where do your parents’ families come from?
I think that all 10 generations of men before me lived in northern Québec City, within 20 kilometres from where I was born, since our first ancestor settled in the country in the 1660s. In 1905, the Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides parish was founded in northern Charlesbourg and it's my understanding that the last 4 to 6 generations of my father's family have lived there. That first North American ancestor came from Île de Ré, an island off the coast of France, near La Rochelle. They named a street after him there--one of my cousins visited once. My father was raised in a house that was 5 minutes drive from where I grew up. (My father built a house in Stoneham when he married my mother, and then he built a new one in Charlesbourg when I was 6 years old, so I consider the latter to be Where I Grew Up). Even though my direct paternal line stayed in the original area of settlement, there are people bearing my surname across the province.
On my mother's side, I don't know the genealogy, but it is probably similar to my father's, i.e. French colonization from the mid to late 1600s. My mother was raised in a house that was literally 10 minutes' walk away from where I did most of my growing up. Her surname is also common across the province, though less so than my father's.