This is still my blog. I know you've been hitting refresh on this page since 2015, like Jesse Eisenberg in the Facebook movie...well today you are in luck. A new post? Yes, a new post. Consciously fewer !'s this time around.
Because I'm old now. I'm getting married, I own a house, I have cats, ache-y feet, and three different vacuums (= old). When you're old like me, you learn that !'s need to earn their place in written language. I can't just go tossing around !'s willy nilly like I'm still 25 years old.
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| A snowy day, moving into our new Uptown home |
Another result of being elderly: I'm changing things around a bit in this blog. My life has vastly changed since this blog dropped in the ocean nearly 5 years ago, and so the blog will change too.
Ever since I moved back home to Hamilton after university, I've been following #HamONT's cultural revival somewhat from the sidelines. I made sure that my first big girl apartment (no roommate, no OSAP grants paying for my KD & Cable) was in one of the city's cool neighbourhoods - Kirdendall, near Locke Street South. So I lived in a one bedroom apartment on the second floor of a renovated 1930's brick home, a block away from an artisanal cheese shop, a luxury toy store, a florist, and a cupcake shop (also, a gun shop and an discount surplus supply warehouse...less sexy). I loved it.
Then, I met my (soon to be) hubby Steve, we bought a house on the Hamilton mountain, adopted some pets, and started getting a little more interested in the rest of Hamilton. The parts that do not currently get featured in blogs, in Buzzfeed lists, or in articles lauding Hamilton as the 'new Brooklyn'. Which is what the focus this blog will be from now on.
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| The views - one of many reasons to love #uptown |
Do you have time for a long-winded story from an old coot like me? Cause you are about to get one, sonny.
The house we bought up on the Hamilton Mountain, in the Sunning Hill neighbourhood, actually belonged to my (still living) Great Aunt Mildred. She'd lovingly kept the little 1.5 storey house in amazing condition since it was built in 1942, on land owned by my Great-Grandpa. My own Grandpa also built his home on this land, a house where I made many wonderful memories and which still stands today about a block down the road.
My great-great-great Grandpa John Kerr, was the Fish and Game inspector for the City. He had moved to Hamilton from Northern Ireland in the mid 1800's, and had farmed this same spot of land on the Mountain, built the old Kerr House on the Mountain Brow, and eventually parceled it out to his sons, and their sons.
So our house is actually on land that has been owned by my family for six generations. I find that really, really neat.
With this new found sense of pride in the Mountain, I've been wanting more and more to explore this area of town - my new/old neighbourhood - it's businesses, history, and hidden gems. So...KK's Mountain Magic list coming at ya. Terrible name. Mountain News already exists though. Probably will change the name.
MOUNTAIN MAGIC LIST - to give you an idea of future posts to expect here:
- Uli's Stairs
- Tartan Toorie
- Neat mountain homes & people
- Harry's Fish and Chips
- All things Concession Street
- The Zoetic Theatre
- Chicago Style Pizza
- Best Mountain Views
- Biggie's Ice Cream
- Mountain Libraries
- Good walks & parks
- The old Inclined railway
- Cool and/or new mountain shops and restaurants
- and other good things worth the trek up the ol' Jolley Cut
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