Category Archives: Blog

Saturday Snap – First Shorts of the Year?

For some reason, I’ve made a point to note the first day of snow every year pretty much since I started this blog. But with beautiful +14 weather on the last day of winter, I wonder if I missed an opportunity to also record the first day I wore shorts outside each spring?

10 Things I Would Write About If I Had More Energy

Death of Ruth Bader-Ginsburg My Latest Thoughts on Covid Watching the Emmys Revamped for Covid How Pace Made Most of a Roast Chicken Supper Tonight Some Thoughts on Pro Sports During Covid – NHL, NBA, MLB, NFL, CFL The US Election The Sask Provincial Election The Regina Municipal Election The New Tyler Childers Album (and […]

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Luther College 1991 “Midnight Breakfast” (and Happy 5000th Blog Post To Me!)

First off, it didn’t line up perfectly but earlier this week, I posted my 5000th post on this blog after nearly 14 years of daily posts from February 25, 2006 to April 30, 2020 (and fourteen years ago, I *never* would’ve guessed that my milestone 5000th post would be about my daughter, let alone my […]

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Blog Analytics for 2019

As so many sites/apps do at this time of year, one of my blog plug-ins also provided a “Year in Review” report for my blog traffic. Now, I should back up and repeat my standard line that I tend to think of this blog as my “acreage in the country” – far away from the […]

First Lines From My First Blog Post of Every Month of 2019

I’ve written before how this annual post where I share the first line of my first post of every month of the past year is one of my favourites of the year.  Part of the reason is how it seems completely random (I honestly don’t think about what I’m posting for the start of every […]

2019 Edition of “First Snow of the Year” – Hawksley Workman

It created a pretty magical “snow globe” effect at the Heritage Classic last night, continued to fall through the night and it’s always a bit of a judgement call but it feels like it’s time to do my annual post of this song as it feels like the snow is here to stay again for […]

Pareidolia (aka Five Things I Thought About Blogging About Tonight But Am Too Lazy To Flesh Out Into Full Posts)

How I went “mini-viral” after whipping off a meme telling W. Brett Wilson to be better on Twitter after he posted a “fake news” attack on Justin Trudeau (my meme was sort of unique in that the ex-Dragon ended up “Liking” himself!) How close I am to giving up cable and switching to an Android […]

Instead of Fighting About Politics on the Internet…

…maybe I should just upload screenshots of the witty retorts I draft but then discard without posting because I don’t feel like getting into it with people? (Shea and I spend a lot of time talking about how liberals are often at a disadvantage in arguments with conservatives because they tend to just say whatever […]

Music Monday – “Away from these memories, my life I must spend/Adios amigo, adios my friend”

Back from a one week all-inclusive holiday (even from blogging if you can believe it!) but lots to start catching up on – a review of our resort for sure (last year, it took me three weeks to cobble together a review of our resort – I wonder if I’ll be quicker this year?) Also […]

First Lines From My First Blog Post of Every Month of 2018

Always one of my favourite posts of the year as it does such a good job of randomly capturing the flow of the year, highlights and lowlights. 😉 January – “It was a great way to kick off the New Year last night with Shea and I seeing a show at Casino Regina featuring Blake […]