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Monthly Archives October 2019

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – #officialRPL Annual Report 1996 #yqr

One of the ladies in my branches’ “Celebrate Seniors!” program (she’s a model on page 2!) showed me an RPL annual report she recently rediscovered. Amazing stuff…

Posted 31 October 2019 § Library § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

NHL #HeritageClassic Highlights

Wrong team won but with a few days to think about it, probably worth it to see a 3-on-3 overtime outdoors (pond hockey!) and would’ve been even better if it had gone to shootout too!  

Posted 30 October 2019 § Canada § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

“You ar a good liberein”

Shea and I did a pretty major weeding of our kids’ book collections recently and I ended up giving a bunch to one of the teachers who regularly comes into my library (who also happens to teach at the school my kids go to so I have a soft spot for that school to begin […]

Posted 29 October 2019 § Library § Pace § PopCulture § Randomness § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “I never really knew that she could dance like this/She makes a man wants to speak Spanish/Como se llama, bonita, mi casa, su casa (sí, sí)”

What first snow of the year? “Hips Don’t Lie” – Shakira

Posted 28 October 2019 § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

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 […]

Posted 27 October 2019 § Blog § Canada § MemoryLane § Pace § PopCulture § Sad § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – Ready To Head Out to the Heritage Classic!

Pretty cool experience to go to the Flames Heritage Classic game in Regina with my Calgary cousins and our dads.

Posted 26 October 2019 § Canada § Family § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Elections Fun

A variety of ways to look at the results. How would proportional representation have shaped the results (always with the caveat that even PR supporters like myself have to acknowledge parties knowing the election was happening under PR would change strategies and the results so it’s hard to map FPTP results onto PR models perfectly.) […]

Posted 25 October 2019 § Canada § FridayFunLink § News § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Go Flames Go (April 2004 Stanley Cup Run)

I’m super excited for the Heritage Classic outdoor NHL game (first regular season NHL game in a non-NHL city ever!) on Saturday night at Mosaic Stadium. I’ve always been a Flames fan since I have a lot of family in Calgary but they were my second favourite team, at least until we moved to Calgary […]

Posted 24 October 2019 § Canada § Humour § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan § Sports § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Fred Eaglesmith Grand Ole Opry Debut

It took him fifty years to get there but it was worth it!

Posted 23 October 2019 § Humour § MemoryLane § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Winners and Losers of #Elxn43

Usually after an election, there are articles and blog posts about “winners and losers”. But after last night, I feel like we have the rare situation where every party could arguably be said to be both a big winner and a big loser in some very definitive ways. Liberals Won: The election obviously Lost: But […]

Posted 22 October 2019 § Canada § List § News § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,