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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, […]

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 […]

¶ Posted 19 May 2020 § Baby § Family § Pace § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: parents

Friday Fun Link – What Life Is Like In Saskatchewan Small Towns

¶ Posted 15 May 2020 § FridayFunLink § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Making A Mess (September 2009)

Hard to believe this toddler will be a teenager next week. (Still as messy though!) 😉

¶ Posted 14 May 2020 § Family § Humour § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute

Coteau Books Auction – May 20, 2020 #yqr #sasked #saskedchat #yxe #sask #sk

This had been a shitty year for me, even before the COVID pandemic hit. Coteau Books, which was a long-standing literary press in Canada for nearly half a century, and which I’d served on the board of directors of for nearly a decade, entered bankruptcy protection in late February. I’ll likely do a longer post […]

¶ Posted 12 May 2020 § News § PopCulture § Sad § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, economics, education, history, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “The joint is really jumpin’, the cats are going wild/The music really sends me, I dig that crazy style,”

One of the greatest, most influential rock stars of all-time… “Ready Teddy” – Little Richard

¶ Posted 11 May 2020 § MusicMonday § News § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, language, music

Day One in Quarantine vs. Day Fifty

I’m at 54 days in quarantine as of today but close enough…

¶ Posted 10 May 2020 § Humour § Meme § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid

Saturday Snap – Covid Helping Us To Connect With Long Lost Friends

Shea and I have tried to do regular video chats with various friends and family throughout this pandemic but last night, we decided to do something a bit different – instead of a sustained conversation with one person or group, we decided to try “chat roulette” where we’d message random people on our Facebook friend […]

¶ Posted 09 May 2020 § Photo § SaturdaySnap § UK § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – “Reader Pride” Wrap-Up (June 2008)

This was the wrap-up for a major region-wide literacy program called “Time To Read” (with a slogan “Reader Pride”, a pun on Saskatchewan’s well-known “Rider Pride”) that I was involved with in my first job after I graduated from library school. It’s crazy to think how much in this photo is now being impacted by […]