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Friday Fun Link – 39 s’Mores Hacks That Will Change Your Life

Of course Buzzfeed has the perfect listicle for this topic. We’ve tried a few s’mores variations ourselves with a current favourite being “Exploding s’moreos” where we not only use an Oreo instead of a graham cracker but also the limited edition Fireworks Oreos that have pop rocks candy mixed in!

¶ Posted 04 August 2017 § FridayFunLink § List § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping

Five Disadvantages of a Seasonal Site

I did a post about the advantages of a seasonal camp site so it’s only fair to list some of the disadvantages. I already mentioned that it ends up being more expensive than you realise. You end up feeling obligated (or at least we do) to go out to your camp site as much as […]

¶ Posted 30 July 2017 § List § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, saskatchewan, travel

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Our First Visit to Echo Valley Provincial Park (June 2015)

Before we had our seasonal site there, we stayed at Echo Valley for a weekend in June 2015. We had a site backing right onto the main playground, only steps from where our seasonal site is now (I often sit in our seasonal site and look over diagonally at the ever-changing nightly campers staying in […]

¶ Posted 27 July 2017 § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, holiday, saskatchewan, travel

Five Things We Underbudgeted For At Our Seasonal Campsite

Booze I knew we’d drink a bit at our seasonal site but between booze being expensive and happy hour starting at noonish most days (not to mention Bailey’s in the morning coffee), it adds up fast! Dollar Store Junk We’re spending a ridiculous amount each week on stuff that we use up quickly (glow sticks) […]

¶ Posted 23 July 2017 § Humour § List § Saskatchewan § Travel ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: camping, economics, holiday, saskatchewan, travel

Saturday Snap – Ramping Up The Friendships

Pace set up a bike ramp in front of our campsite and suddenly six kids showed up to ride on it with him (I managed to catch four of them in this photo.)

¶ Posted 22 July 2017 § Pace § Photo § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, holiday

Throwback Thursday – Birthday Cake with Baby Pace (July 18, 2007)

Pace and I sharing some cake on my birthday ten years ago…

¶ Posted 20 July 2017 § Baby § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute

Friday Fun Link – Kids From The 1970’s Are Parenting Differently Today

Lots of truth in this article.

¶ Posted 14 July 2017 § FridayFunLink § Humour § MemoryLane § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Our New (To Us) rPod 182g (August 5, 2014)

Funny, just realised that I posted a similar Throwback Thursday post almost a year ago to the day. Must be mid-summer when I realise how glad I am that we bought our rPod! 🙂 Anyhow, above is a picture of Shea as she went with my parents to pick up our rPod three summers ago […]

¶ Posted 13 July 2017 § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § Shea § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, economics, holiday, saskatchewan, travel

Saturday Snap – Happy Canada Day!

¶ Posted 01 July 2017 § Canada § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping

End of Year Track Meet

One of the things that seems like a downside of my current job at a branch is that I have to do some evening and weekend work. But sometimes that turns out to be an advantage. Because I worked this past weekend, I had Monday and Tuesday off. And so I was able to go […]