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Saturday Snap – Old-Fashioned #Saskatchewan Saturday Night

My daughter doesn’t realise that when her dad was growing up, before the Internet and the 500-channel universe, TV bingo and polka parties were literally the only forms of entertainment available (no wonder I became such a big reader!) 😉 We re-created a small-town Saskatchewan Saturday night at our house tonight: Playing (fake) TV Bingo… […]

¶ Posted 11 January 2020 § Humour § MemoryLane § Sasha § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, music, saskatchewan

Friday Fun Link – Ric Flair’s Wildest Outbursts

I could watch these all day…greatest promo man in the history of pro wrestling!

¶ Posted 10 January 2020 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Meme § MemoryLane § Sports § Wrestling ‡ Comments (0) °

Library Director Jason Hammond?

No, not me but still pretty cool…

¶ Posted 07 January 2020 § Humour § Jobs § Library § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language

Music Monday – “My family left Honduras when they killed the Sandinistas/We followed a coyote through the dust of Mexico/Every one of them except for me survived/And I am still alive”

There are very few songs that can make the hair on my arms stand on end. This song, a reworking of an older song I loved growing up. But instead of focusing on men dying doing manly things as in the original, the update is about women dying in service of larger social issues. Incredibly […]

¶ Posted 06 January 2020 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § News § Politics § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, history, language

Saturday Snap – 90% of the Reason We Moved?

Okay, maybe not 90% of the reason but having a two car attached garage is pretty nice after fifteen years of parking on the street, scraping windows all winter and not one but two cars totalled while parked on the street (one kid who hit my car fessed up, one was a hit & run […]

¶ Posted 04 January 2020 § Humour § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics

Friday Fun Link – Oilers vs. Leafs (1986 So 20 Goals Scored!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc_Dvefyxf0

¶ Posted 03 January 2020 § FridayFunLink § Humour § MemoryLane § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, hockey, ontario

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 […]

¶ Posted 02 January 2020 § Blog § Humour § MemoryLane § Randomness § Technology § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) °

Happy New Year!

Happy New Month/Year/Decade (and I already screwed up the time stamp of a scheduled post so this didn’t go up right at 12:01am like I hoped but instead, was going to wait until January 12 to show up – oops!)