Category Archives: MemoryLane

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Did We Spot Our Next Destination, @HyattZivaCancun From The Air A Year Ago? (March 2018)

Who knew when we went parasailing at the Beach Palace (a sister resort to the Moon Palace where we were staying) last winter that we’d end up taking a picture of the resort we’d be staying at the following winter? But almost as soon as we got home from our amazing two-week getaway last year, […]

What Are You Most Excited About For The Calgary Flames This Season?

CalgaryPuck has lots of ideas and here’s a team preview from the Calgary Sun.  But here are some of the things I’m excited about for the Flames this year as the NHL season begins tonight… A completely re-vamped line-up with lots of good young players Same with the coaching group which is (almost) completely revamped as […]

Saturday Snap – More My Speed?

Our neighbour built a small ramp to help him move a new appliance in his house. Once he was finished with it, he brought it over and offered it to Pace (but I think he secretly meant it for me in case I ever decide to do a bike jump again!) And speaking of the […]

Reunion at a Funeral

There was a mini-IHHS Class of ’91 reunion at the funeral of Kyle Raaf today.   Our classmate, Erin, gave a moving eulogy for someone she described as “not just my big brother but my hero” and her stories of how Kyle had such a positive impact on so many people during his too-short 46 years […]

Throwback Thursday – Image Cable Installer (Summer 1991)

A bit of a different Throwback Thursday this week. I recently posted about how death was a dark cloud this summer with a handful of people we know and/or were connected to having died.  Unfortunately, that trend has continued into September with my parents letting me know that the father of one of my best […]

Minor Milestones While Recovering From Breaking The Scaphoid Bone In My Wrist

It’s weird how much we take having two working hands for granted. Since breaking my wrist at the end of July, it’s been a series of minor milestones – from my first appointment with my family doctor a few days after the surgery where he changed my dressing on through things like being told I […]

@MiaReefIsla Mia Reef Hotel, Isla Mujeres, Mexico

This was one of the most unique hotels we saw during our visit to Mexico last March. For example, while all beaches in Mexico are considered public property, this hotel is on a small island of its own, connected to Isla Mujeres by a short bridge, which means that this is one of the few […]

Music Monday – “Cause here on earth it feels like everything good is missing since you left/And here on earth everything thing’s different, there’s an emptiness”

Death was a dark cloud haunting our summer in a variety of ways. In August, I lost a great aunt who lived in Weyburn at age 86. Earlier in the summer, I drove up to Warman for the funeral of one of my favourite cousins who was only in his 50’s when cancer took his life. He […]

Mankind and Undertaker Discuss Their Iconic Hell in a Cell Match

WWE’s “Hell in a Cell” Pay Per View is tonight with multiple matches being held in the imposing, over-sized cage. But twenty years ago, HiaC matches were much more rare and that made them much more special. The third ever HiaC match between Undertaker and Mankind had not one, not two but three iconic spots […]

Throwback Thursday – Congrats Yens Pedersen! (June 2009) #skpoli

Longtime NDP member, former Sask NDP party president and candidate for office and party leader, Yens Pedersen, won the byelection in Regina Northeast yesterday to boost the number of Saskatchewan NDP MLAs to 13. My first introduction to Pedersen was when he competed against Ryan Meili for Leader of the Saskatchewan NDP in 2009. At […]