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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Our First Dine-In Restaurant Meal in Three Months! (March 2020-June 2020)

Usually my “Throwback Thursday” posts go at least a few years back. But this one has me thinking of the past three months – from our last dine-in meal at the Houston Pizza near our house on Friday March 13 after we picked up the kids from what would be their last day of school […]

¶ Posted 18 June 2020 § Photo § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, food, saskatchewan

Saturday Snap – Our Oasis

Doing a lot of work in our new seasonal campsite (we were granted a move from a smaller site we were in other years to a bigger, better one) to make it relaxing and peaceful…

¶ Posted 13 June 2020 § Family § Photo § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Sunset at Jan Lake

¶ Posted 11 June 2020 § Family § Photo § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: saskatchewan, weather

Throwback Thursday – Locked in The Camper (August 2015)

I told this story soon after it happened but now, five years later, it also qualifies to be a “Throwback Thursday” post as well. At the time, we were at Shea’s parents’ campsite getting ready for supper and no one was paying much attention to Sasha in the camper as people bustled in and out. […]

¶ Posted 04 June 2020 § Baby § Family § FridayFunLink § Humour § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, cute, parents

Thinking About That One Time A Cop Threatened To Beat Up Me and My Friends in High School

It’s obviously *very* different for myself as a middle-class white kid who grew up in a small town on the Canadian prairies compared to what’s happening to black people of all ages over and over again in cities across the US. But I had one particular experience in high school that showed me how easy […]

¶ Posted 31 May 2020 § News § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, saskatchewan

Saturday Snap – Our New Camper (2018 Forest River Cherokee Grey Wolf)

Shea and I had been tossing around the idea of upgrading to a bigger camper for a couple years but Covid sort of forced our hand this year. The initial restrictions for campgrounds included the fact that bathrooms would be closed and people would only be allowed to use their own camper’s facilities. Our rPod […]

¶ Posted 30 May 2020 § Family § Photo § Saskatchewan § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, economics, saskatchewan, travel

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Coteau Books Board of Directors (January 2016)

I joined the board of Coteau Books in early 2012 but this photo of the board is from January 2016. Coteau entered bankruptcy earlier this year so this is from happier times and what happy times they were. During my many years on the Coteau board, I met such a wide range of great people […]

¶ Posted 28 May 2020 § Jobs § Photo § PopCulture § Sad § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, economics, education, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “I stand before this faceless crowd/And I wonder why I bother/So much controlled by so few/Stumbling from one disaster to another”

A day or a week or a month ago, there was a COVID benefit concert featuring Canadian artists. It was a great show except I took exception to the use of “Lean On Me” as the final group song. Great song, classic for a reason – sure. But it just felt misplaced to have a […]

¶ Posted 25 May 2020 § Canada § Family § MusicMonday § News § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, language, music

Throwback Thursday – Barn Board Accounting (April 1932)

This is pretty special – my dad was getting some barn boards from our farm to use in framing projects and found one where my grandfather had done some accounting as he sold grain to others (according to dad, he remembers the grain being sold by the five gallon pail.) My brother-in-law stained the board, […]

¶ Posted 21 May 2020 § Family § Jobs § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, history, parents, saskatchewan

Happy 13th Birthday to Our Teenager!

Hard to believe our first born turns 13 today! His timing is good too – his younger sister was very angry that she had to have a virtual birthday last month but now that covid restrictions are loosening up a bit and we can have “family bubbles”, Pace got not only an in-person instead of […]