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Music Monday – “Can you break the horse, can you light the fire, what’s that I beg your pardon?/You best start thinking where food comes from and I hope you tend a good garden.”

“Gettin’ Down on the Mountain” – Corb Lund

Posted 20 August 2018 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “Five mile an hour with aluminum side/Wood panelin’ with a water slide/Can’t beat the heat, so let’s take a ride”

“Pontoon” – Little Big Town

Posted 13 August 2018 § Family § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Everybody chasing something/I don’t know why they’re running/I take my time to the finish line/‘Cause we all end up with nothing”

“Trailer Hitch” – Kristian Bush

Posted 06 August 2018 § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “I used to spend my nights out in a barroom/Liquor was the only love I’ve known/But you rescued me from reachin’ for the bottom/And brought me back from being too far gone”

“Tennessee Whiskey” – Chris Stapleton

Posted 30 July 2018 § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Nothing lasts forever/And your best efforts don’t always pay/Sometimes you get sick/And you don’t get better/That’s when life is short/Even in its longest days”

I’ve always loved John Mellencamp but mostly as a rocker. So this song off his latest album caught me a bit by surprise (though I do hear echoes of “My Best Was Never Good Enough” by Bruce Springsteen on his “Ghost of Tom Joad” album.) “Longest Days” – John Mellencamp

Posted 16 July 2018 § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “We’re just two lost souls/Swimming in a fish bowl/Year after year”

Not sure if they’ll upload it or not but if they do, I’ll replace this clip with the slideshow they showed at my cousin’s funeral on Saturday… “Wish You Were Here” – Pink Floyd

Posted 09 July 2018 § Family § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “We get to see the maple trees/Maple sugar on the maple leaves/We get the biggest wheat fields growing tall”

“CA-NA-DA (Cross Canada)” – Stomping Tom Connors w/ kd lang

Posted 03 July 2018 § Canada § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Floatin’ on the wind, until I find you/I bury myself deep inside your heart/You won’t feel a change/We’ll just become the same thing/And never spend a single day apart”

“Angel of Death” – Honeyhoney

Posted 25 June 2018 § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “Well they walked that day/The next/And the next/And the water it ran out one by one/Ay mijitos/They looked like dried leaves/Scattered in the sun”

“Migrants” – Sam Baker One of the best managers I’ve known (at least measured by how many quotes of theirs I regularly regurgitate) once said something to this effect: One important thing to remember – those rules, policies, guidelines we have?  They’re all just words on paper.  They’re arbitrary.  And they can be changed completely […]

Posted 18 June 2018 § News § Politics § PopCulture § Travel § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Music Monday – “Seeing traces/Of the stars that came before/Hitting the pavement/Still asking for more”

I’ve got a bit of an informal Americana “camping music” theme going this month with Jason Isbell last week and now Son Volt this week… “Tear Stained Eye” – Son Volt

Posted 11 June 2018 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,