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A Few Highlights From CWE “Cruel Summer” Wrestling Show in Weyburn, SK

Took Pace and his cousin to a wrestling show in Weyburn last Saturday and it was a blast bringing back fond memories of my dad taking me to a handful of Stampede Wrestling shows in Regina and Fort Qu’Appelle and even a few shows in my own hometown of Indian Head. A few highlights… 1. […]

Back From Camping (and Five “Redneck” Moments)

Eternal optimist that I am, I keep saying that Covid has had some unintended benefits. One of those is because we couldn’t do a winter trip this year, it also meant we had more holidays to take in the summer – two weeks in July but also two weeks in August which we don’t usually […]

Happy (Third) Anniversary (of the Year), Shea!

Sure, we have three anniversaries but today happens to be one of them so I thought I’d mention it! 🙂 For those who don’t know how we ended with *three* wedding anniversaries, here’s the story… First off, due to the red tape and expense of a legal destination wedding at the time, we chose to […]

Friday Fun Link – A Few Signs That Covid May Be Coming to an End

Recent Signs That Covid is Over: 1. Had a rare inside, sit-down restaurant meal earlier this week with my parents and Pace (possibly his first inside meal in a year and a half?!?) 2. Got invited for some patio drinks with neighbours one evening this week 3. Nickle Lake is bringing back Friday Family movies […]

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – “Trump Trips Up” (~May 1991?)

I was going through some old papers in a box under the stairs recently and came across a folder of articles I’d clipped and saved, long before most articles from popular magazines were available online from databases or from the magazine’s own web site like they are today. Had to chuckle for a couple reasons: […]

Friday Fun Link – “Drinks in Calgary” Decision Tree

I could’ve used this when we lived in Calgary but honestly, this is all I needed to know: 1. Hop N Brew (right next door to where my office was – dangerous!) 2. Drum & Monkey (also down the street from my office – sat there for like ten hours from noon on to hold […]

Secular Sunday – 10 Most Shocking Religious Scandals

(Honestly, none of these shock me in the least!) 😉

Note To Self: Important Things To Bring For Your First Weekend Opening The Campsite

This blog post is basically a “note to self” for next year as between closing up last year on a beautiful day which had us very distracted (I think Shea even went out on the boat with her folks for part of the day!), not doing a good job of tracking what was put into […]

20 Signs You Have A Good Boss

The importance of good bosses can’t be overstated. RPL has had a number of people in supervisory/management positions over the dozen or so years I’ve been there and I would say I’ve honestly seen both the best and the worst in terms of how they approach supervising other people. Here is just.a sample of the […]

Friday Fun Link – “Year of Covid” Bingo Card

We’ve been at this for over a year so I thought I’d make a bingo card to capture some of the most common shared experiences many of us have had during the past year or so. I got a full bingo (but I also made the card so that probably helped!) ;-).