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Category Archives: MemoryLane

Goodbye to Our Babysitter (and Some Thoughts On A Lucky Life)

When I did my ten part series on the things that have been major factors in making me who I am today, I thought about finishing with a post about a few things – liberals tend to think in terms of “privilege”, right wingers might think of it as “hard work”, the superstitious might just […]

Posted 26 June 2019 § Jobs § LibrarySchool § Pace § Photo § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Regina Northeast Community Association Family Fair & BBQ

I got to spend a few hours this afternoon at the annual summer fair of one of the community associations my library serves. There’d been a forecast of rain but the day turned out to be beautiful and I it was great fun to spend time with a bunch of my regular patrons, meet a […]

Posted 23 June 2019 § Humour § Library § Politics § Saskatchewan § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Nickle Lake (October 2015)

Posted 20 June 2019 § Photo § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Raptors Win NBA Chamionship!

I used to be a pretty big basketball fan in high school but admit I’ve gotten away from the game.  But really enjoyed jumping on the bandwagon for the Raptors amazing playoff run that ended last night with them capturing the championship. (Saw an interesting piece of trivia – Leafs won their last Stanley Cup […]

Posted 14 June 2019 § Canada § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Go Raptors Go! (May 2017)

Pace and some of his friends trying out the new Raptors Junior Basketball Hoop that he got for his birthday a couple years ago…

Posted 13 June 2019 § Canada § Pace § Photo § Sports § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) °

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Farewell Aunt Sandi! (May 2008)

For the past few weeks, we’ve had another good visit with my Aunt Sandi who comes out from BC every spring to spend time with us. Here’s a shot from one of her first visits the year Pace turned one…

Posted 06 June 2019 § Family § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) °

The Craziest Edit in Beatles History

I’ve got a mini-Beatles/music theme going on the past couple days (so much so that when I looked at my post about the Mi’kmaq version of “Blackbird” yesterday, I thought it *was* my Music Monday post and I’d somehow missed posting on Tuesday!) Anyhow, to keep the theme going, here’s a YouTube video about one […]

Posted 05 June 2019 § PopCulture § Technology § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Multi-Year Fence Project Finally Finished? (May 2014, May 2017, May 2018, May 2019)

We’ve been replacing our forty year old original fence in a series of mini-projects over the past five years. We started with the back part of our yard in May 2014 which was a major job as the neighbour directly behind us (no back alley) is at the end of a crescent on a pie-shaped […]

Posted 30 May 2019 § Family § Jobs § Photo § Shea § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Night – Regent Place Triplets Reunited

Usually, men are few and far between in library work.  But I had a brief period where not only was I the only man around, I actually had two other dudes working in my branch out of a staff complement of ten. As a bonus, we all had a similar look so we joked about […]

Posted 25 May 2019 § Humour § Jobs § Library § Photo § SaturdaySnap § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Tree of Tears (July 2015)

About four years ago, we came back from a camping trip to find that a neighbour’s tree had split and was being removed. One of the branches hung over the fence into our yard and Sasha had some tears when she realised she’d no longer have a swing.  I had tears too but they were […]

Posted 23 May 2019 § Family § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: