Monthly Archives March 2019

Flames Clinch Western Conference!

Back in October, I wrote a post about the things I was excited for this season. There was lots to be excited about but I doubt many Flames fans predicted the season the Calgary Flames would end up having.  I was optimistic that they’d be in the playoff hunt and hoped they’d be in the […]

Saturday Snap – Pretty Much The Definition of Spring in Saskatchewan

Still having to scrape half your windshield in the morning! 😉

Friday Fun Link – Early Contender for Pace’s Next Birthday Party?

This is one of those times where you convince your child that they really want something that secretly, you as the dad really want!

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – How Did I Get Here? – #6 – Comedy

  After another week away from this series (honestly, I forgot I was doing this “How I Became Me” series last week after working a 1-9pm shift and, as I often do, whipping off a zero-effort post to keep my daily post streak alive instead of doing something a bit more in-depth and time-consuming.) Anyhow, […]

Comparing The Cuts: Cornwall Alternative School and Saskatchewan’s Public Libraries #skpoli

I was having some bad flashbacks over the past few days after the Sask Party released their budget last week that included an unexpected, unnecessarily cruel cut. But instead of cutting funding to public libraries and threatening to destroy a 100-year old, world-leading system like they did two years ago, the Sask Party targeted Cornwall […]

National Purple Day for Epilepsy Awareness

Shea’s cousin’s son was profiled by the Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital for National Epilepsy Awareness Day. Rylan’s seizures started at the young age of two. They indicated something serious, but at that point nobody knew it would take such a toll on his future development and quality of life. As his mom Jacqui helplessly observed […]

Music Monday – “My heart’s like an open book/For the whole world to read/Sometimes nothing keeps me together/At the seams”

Shea and I watched “The Dirt“, the new Netflix Motley Crue biopic this weekend. Lots of songs that were a soundtrack to my high school years for sure including this one… “Home Sweet Home” – Motley Crue

The Eleven Month Countdown to Next Year’s Trip?

Just like I did after we got home last year, I immediately began thinking about and researching where we might like to go on a tropical vacation next winter. Here’s my shortlist of destinations (but not hotels – though I’ve started that list too!) so far: 1. Isla Mujeres  – both times we’ve gone there on […]

Saturday Snap – Puddle Jumpin’

If you get out early enough, you get to break the ice on the puddles!

Friday Fun Link – “Any time you win five Stanley Cups, there’s a certain amount of mess that comes on the tail end of that.”

The only thing that’s made the Flames’ amazing season better is watching the ongoing dumpster fire that is their provincial rivals, the Edmonton Oilers, not just this year but over the past ten years. The smugness and arrogance in this clip from Oilers’ Old Boys Club management is an oldie but a goldie (oh, and […]