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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Three Obituaries

Usually Throwback Thursday is for a photo from the old days but I’ve got a collection of obituaries I’ve come across recently that I thought I’d discuss instead since all three send me down memory lane in different ways… Author, publisher, businessman and activist, Mel Hurtig, passed away yesterday. I never got to meet him […]

Ten Reasons Our Recent Camping Trip Was Perhaps Our Best Ever

We’re back from a week and a half of camping – one week at Greenwater Provincial Park and then, after a quick night in Regina, another few days at Shea’s parents’ seasonal site in Weyburn. Both parts were great but Shea and I agreed that the week in Greenwater was maybe our best camping trip […]

¶ Posted 03 August 2016 § Family § List § Saskatchewan § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, holiday, parents

Saturday Snap – Gone Camping!

We’re off camping for the next couple weeks so posts will likely be few and far between…unless the kids end up building a really cute fort out of firewood and I have to post a picture! 😉

¶ Posted 23 July 2016 § Family § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, holiday, saskatchewan

Friday Fun Link – God, I Miss Jon Stewart

Luckily, he’s living under Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” desk… (Oh, and here’s a summary of 25 of Trump’s biggest lies, exaggerations and misrepresentations from his convention speech last night.)

¶ Posted 22 July 2016 § FridayFunLink § Humour § PopCulture § United States § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, television, unitedstates

Throwback Thursday – Our New rPod182G Camper (August 2014)

Hard to believe we’ve already had our camper for three summers (well, two and a bit since we bought it near the end of the season three years ago.) We’ve had a lot of fun with it so far, travelled to parks across the province and after a quick trip out to Rowan’s Ravine last weekend […]

¶ Posted 20 July 2016 § Family § Photo § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: camping, cute, holiday, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “Yes, we’re going to a party-party/Yes, we’re going to a party-party”

I’ve had this blog for ten years and my actual birthday has fallen on a “Music Monday” only once in 2009 when I naturally posted…“Paranoid Android” by Radiohead? Maybe I did this because only a couple years earlier in 2009, I fudged things and posted “Birthday” by the Beatles on the Monday before my birthday […]

¶ Posted 18 July 2016 § Blog § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday

Friday Fun Link – What The World’s Biggest Sites Looked Like At Launch

This is pretty interesting featuring screenshots of the original version of sites such as Google, Yahoo, Amazon, etc. For comparison’s sake, here’s what my very first web page looked like in December 1998 (this isn’t the first page I ever made but the earliest I could find in the Wayback Machine). Crazy to […]

¶ Posted 15 July 2016 § Internet § Jobs § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Technology § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: facebook, google, history, language, twitter, wikipedia

Throwback Thursday – Practice Makes Dishpan Hands? (July 13, 2006)

In 2006, I took the only Children’s Librarianship class that my library school offered. I did extremely well in it and was one of only six students (out of a class of 20+) that our prof invited for a end-of-class meal and celebration for her most promising students. One of the reasons she saw great potential […]