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Monthly Archives May 2020

Throwback Thursday – Barn Board Accounting (April 1932)

This is pretty special – my dad was getting some barn boards from our farm to use in framing projects and found one where my grandfather had done some accounting as he sold grain to others (according to dad, he remembers the grain being sold by the five gallon pail.) My brother-in-law stained the board, […]

Happy 13th Birthday to Our Teenager!

Hard to believe our first born turns 13 today! His timing is good too – his younger sister was very angry that she had to have a virtual birthday last month but now that covid restrictions are loosening up a bit and we can have “family bubbles”, Pace got not only an in-person instead of […]

¶ Posted 19 May 2020 § Baby § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: parents

Music Monday – “Thought I was alone in the world/Until my memories gathered ’round me in the night/Thought I was strong/Until I finally had to fight”

Jason Isbell, one of the greatest living songwriters today, did a free concert to promote the release of his new album, “Reunions”, and though lots of artists are doing live streams from their living rooms and their music rooms and so on, this might be the first one I’ve seen that’s tried to re-create much […]

¶ Posted 18 May 2020 § Jobs § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, economics, music

QuaranTrim? Cutvid-19? Haired Immunity?

I’ve been joking about it since about week two of quarantine but as we head into the third month of quarantine, the family decided it was time for me to have a haircut and beard trim. They also decided they should all help. This is the result… (and I wish I could blame the scratch […]

¶ Posted 17 May 2020 § Family § Humour § Jobs § Pace § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, cute, economics

Saturday Snap – Drive-Thru (Our Grille) [Content May Disturb Some Viewers]

I don’t do warnings on this blog very often but I know the photo shows a dead animal and so may bother some people. You’ve been warned. So anyhow, we went out to Weyburn all day yesterday. Last fall, we applied for and received a transfer to a new seasonal campsite – bigger, closer to […]

¶ Posted 16 May 2020 § Family § Photo § Randomness § Sad § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping

Friday Fun Link – What Life Is Like In Saskatchewan Small Towns

¶ Posted 15 May 2020 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Making A Mess (September 2009)

Hard to believe this toddler will be a teenager next week. (Still as messy though!) 😉

¶ Posted 14 May 2020 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute

Donald Trump Sings R.E.M.

This is too funny to wait for Music Monday…

¶ Posted 13 May 2020 § Humour § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health, music, unitedstates

Coteau Books Auction – May 20, 2020 #yqr #sasked #saskedchat #yxe #sask #sk

This had been a shitty year for me, even before the COVID pandemic hit. Coteau Books, which was a long-standing literary press in Canada for nearly half a century, and which I’d served on the board of directors of for nearly a decade, entered bankruptcy protection in late February. I’ll likely do a longer post […]