Went out to our farm today and got to spend some time watching the family friend who we now rent our land to and his crew harvesting. Lots of fond memories for Shea and I watching the combines go around the field (okay, it was usually just a single combine when we were growing up – […]
One of my cousins has received a number of old photos from her mother (my dad’s oldest sister). My cousin has posted a few of the photos that she’s digitized onto Facebook so the entire extended family can see them. Here’s one that has most of the Hammond family as it stood, likely sometime […]
You owe it to yourself to watch this video right to the end…
Although he enjoys swimming, gymnastics, diving and other similar sports, Pace has never shown much interest in team sports. But we keep trying… Our local community centre has a “Give It A Try” program where kids can try different activities every Friday night – broomball, yoga, floor hockey, ju-jit-su and possibly others as well. Friday […]
Some random thoughts about this photo… – *so* skinny! – *so* stylish with that hat! – *so* clean shaven – *so* sexy with the chain
I have all my photos on ThisLife.com and they’ve started sending a weekly “This time x years ago, you were…” e-mail. This week’s was particularly memorable as it outlined that eight (!) years ago, I was taking pictures of a little stick with a plus sign on it – our absolute first introduction to Pace! […]
I know I just posted some old pictures in a post about the Scottish referendum but since the actual referendum is today AND it’s Throwback Thursday, I realise I should’ve held off on that post until today. So , even though you just saw them, here they are again along with a bit more of the […]
So I haven’t paid too much attention to the Scottish Independence referendum (I think my first real glimmer of awareness is when Ryan Meili picked “Better Together” as a campaign slogan a couple years ago and a team member pointed out we’d be working with the “No” side in the Scottish referendum in the world […]
Originally published in 2011, an article about an infamous photo of a man in mid-flight after jumping from the World Trade Centre also raises some interesting points n how much our world has changed since 2001 and raises some questions on how it might have been different had a similar disaster occurred in 2014? Would the […]
Heard the very sad news today that John Mann of Spirit of the West has been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimers. Like many people who were college-aged in the 1990’s, Spirit of the West was basically a soundtrack to my life back then. When I went to England on exchange in 1995, the lyric I quoted in […]
