A couple weeks ago on my birthday weekend, we went camping at Nickle Lake which is a regional park just outside of Weyburn where Shea's parents have a seasonal camping site. My parents came down with their camper as well (surprising Shea's folks which is an ongoing back and forth contest between them.) On the […]
The controversial traveling show “Our Bodies” is at Regina's Science Centre right now and they're offering a lecture series each week to go with the topic. This week's subject was “Kids As Couch Potatoes” and that seemed fairly relevant to our lives these days so we decided to go check it out.Some random thoughts on […]
It's World Breastfeeding Week so here's a song, written by a nursing student, about the subject. I don't usually do a long narrative for my Music Monday posts but I'm got to say that I'm so amazingly proud of Shea for the dedication she put into breastfeeding Pace for over two and a half years […]
Recurring feature alert! I've done this before where I do five quick hits on my five most common topics on this blog and why not, let's do it again.Here's a few quick hits on my most popular topics… HockeyUhm, it's July 28. This does not bode well for this aspect of the Pop Topics recurring […]
Went to my hometown this weekend for the grand re-opening of the historic Bell Farm Round Barn , a reconstruction of the original building which had been near collapse only a few short years ago which would've been a shame, both for the loss of history and also, on a more personal note, as this […]
4400 km. 20 days. 9 stops. 3 provinces. One really awesome trip! And a super-long post to vent all the built-up thoughts after three weeks without blogging!Here are some random thoughts about our trip…1. “It’s the journey, not the destination”Shea’s a “destination” person and I’m a “journey” person and though neither is right or wrong, […]
We're off for a few weeks' holidays, planning to hit Calgary, Kelowna and Vancouver as our main ports of call. Here's a shot from somewhere near Brooks, Alberta. “When you gotta go” and all that – glad we decided to throw the potty in the van with us! The funniest/scariest part of this was the […]
Stupid YouTube blocked the audio on this stupid video because I used a stupid Oasis song as the backing track. So there was a bit of a delay (which you might not even notice since I'm backdating this post to May 19 when the video was supposed to go up, dagnabit!) so I could get […]
Interesting theory on why names come in and go out of fashion – it's tied to generational rebellion. The names of your own generation sound too ordinary, your parents' too boring, your grandparents' too old. But by the time you make it back to your great-grandparents' names, things start to perk up. You've never known […]
I rediscovered this this box in the garage recently and Pace was *very* excited to get so many “new” toys all at once! For Pace, it's new but for me, this box contains so many childhood memories. I used to spend hours, not just re-enacting Star Wars & GI Joe scenes but using the figures […]
