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Category Archives: Humour

Saturday Snap – Ca$h Money

Pace looked rather “gangsta” on the way to the bank to deposit a bunch of money we’d accumulated as people paid us for fishing trips, birthday gifts, garage sale items and a few other things recently.

Posted 26 July 2014 § Family § Pace § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Five Things You Don’t Want To See When You Take Your Kids To The Splash Park

5. Your son saying “Hey dad, try to keep this bottle standing up!” then looking over to see he’s left his bottle of root beer standing precariously on the edge of the picnic blanket without a lid.  (Needless to say, it didn’t stay standing up.) 4. Your daughter wandering into the running water of the various […]

Posted 23 July 2014 § Family § List § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (0) °

Sure, Let’s Just Close The Libraries and Get Everyone A “Kindle Unlimited” Subscription

I’m seeing lots of discussion (and some hand-wringing) about the threat to libraries after Amazon announces the “Kindle Unlimited” plan which gives you access to 600,000 e-books plus thousands of audiobooks for a Netflix-like $9.99/month subscription. Librarians and other defenders of open access and the public library were quick to respond: I mean, if this […]

Posted 22 July 2014 § Library § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “Say you got an “I”,”T” Followed by apostrophe “s”/Now what does that mean?/You would not use “it’s” in this case/As a possessive/It’s a contraction”

“Weird Al” Yankovic is pretty much the perfect musician for the Internet age – nerdy mash-up specialist who  is no stranger to controversy.  So the fact that his latest album has a song about Internet grammar is pretty much perfection (and guaranteed to go viral)… “Word Crimes” – “Weird Al” Yankovic

Posted 21 July 2014 § Internet § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – New Bunk Beds in Our Garage?

Grandpa Dennis built us some new shelving for our garage. Once we got it in place, Pace and his buddy from down the street, Jeffrey, decided that the shelves would actually work better as bunk beds. They even convinced Grandpa to try them out!

Posted 19 July 2014 § Family § Pace § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – 21 Better Facebook Birthday Messages

I’m truly fascinated by the phenomena of Facebook birthday messages. Uh, happy birthday to me!

Posted 18 July 2014 § FridayFunLink § Internet § List § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – Sunset Swing

Posted 12 July 2014 § Pace § Photo § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

#tbt Throwback Thursday – Summer Reading Program (July 17, 2009)

The TD Summer Reading Program is once again in full swing at libraries across Canada.  Here’s a pic of Pace and I with one of the entertainers (Walden the Wizard?) I brought in when I worked at Southeast Regional Library. Pace seems a bit uncertain of this wizard’s powers! 😉

Posted 10 July 2014 § Family § Library § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

After One Year As a Parent, One Thing is Certain…

(full comic available here and worth the click)

Posted 25 June 2014 § Baby § Family § Infographic § MemoryLane § Pace § Sasha § Shea § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Saturday Snap – “I Don’t Know!”

Our new favourite Sasha trick is saying “Sasha…I don’t know” then watching her make this cute face…

Posted 21 June 2014 § Family § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °