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Category Archives: MemoryLane

How Australia and Other Developed Nations Have Put An End To Gun Violence

I wouldn’t say we’ve “put an end to” gun violence in Canada but our numbers (like those in most developed nations) are extremely low compared to the US. There are a whole host of interconnected reasons why this is the case.  But I think one of the largest is the fact that gun ownership is enshrined […]

Posted 26 August 2015 § News § Politics § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Horse Fair at Bell Barn, Indian Head, Saskatchewan

 

Posted 22 August 2015 § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Great Picture of My Mom (Oct 2007)

This is one of my all-time favourite pics of my mom (and a cropped version remains as her Facebook profile picture since I first helped her set-up an account on that site!) The photo was taken during a Long Term Service Awards dessert banquet for Regina-Qu’Appelle Health Region Employees. Although I wish I could take […]

Posted 20 August 2015 § Family § Pace § Photo § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

50 Years of #yqr Copper Kettle Restaurant

The Copper Kettle is a local institution and I’m proud that one of the times I called over to order pizza for a meeting at the library, I ended up having Mr. Gardikiotis take my order personally. When he heard I was with the library, he replied “Oh, the library!  I love the library!  You did […]

Posted 18 August 2015 § Library § News § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – Oasis Full Concert

So cool how you can find full concerts on YouTube.  Oasis will always remind me of my semester abroad in 1995 although this one’s actually from 2005…

Posted 17 August 2015 § MusicMonday § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Paul McCartney Concert in #yqr (Aug 14, 2013)

Two years since the best concert of my life…     And of course, in this day and age, somebody appears to have uploaded the entire concert, from start to finish, to YouTube!  (If I’d know that, I could’ve saved 250 clams on my ticket!) 😉    

Posted 13 August 2015 § Photo § PopCulture § ThrowbackThursday § UK § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Music Monday – “And it don’t matter if you don’t believe/Come Sunday morning/You best be there in the front row/Like you’re supposed to”

My most played song during our recent camping trip… “Merry Go Round” – Kacey Musgraves

Posted 10 August 2015 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Five Highlights From Two Weeks of Camping

Back from nearly two weeks’ straight of camping… We spent a week up at Good Spirit Provincial Park near Yorkton, had a few days back in Regina to re-stock over the August long weekend (very strange to be driving in to Regina as an endless stream of campers were heading out!)  We then went down […]

Posted 09 August 2015 § Family § Humour § List § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – BA – English

Often when I’m out at the University of Regina, I’ll wander the halls of the ol’ alma mater to see what’s changed and what’s stayed the same. In a very “Dead Poet’s Society” moment, I came across my photo on the wall during a visit a few years back.  Look at that young whippersnapper, all […]

Posted 23 July 2015 § Photo § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Google Maps Street View Player – Pike Lake to Outlook

Inspired by the first portion of our route home today – from Pike Lake Provincial Park half an hour south of Saskatoon where we spent the weekend camping on to the Outlook Regional Park where we stopped for lunch – I found a web site that allows you to “drive” between two locations using Google Street View images. […]

Posted 20 July 2015 § Family § Saskatchewan § Technology § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,