Category Archives: Photo

Shea and I have been married for over a decade…

… I thought this long- unopened tub in the basement needed updating! 😉

Saturday Snap – Ca$h Money

Pace looked rather “gangsta” on the way to the bank to deposit a bunch of money we’d accumulated as people paid us for fishing trips, birthday gifts, garage sale items and a few other things recently.

Throwback Thursday – RPL Outreach Unit “Book Club for the Blind & Visually Impaired”

It was a highlight of my young career as a librarian to get to spend a year and a half working in RPL’s Outreach Unit serving visually impaired, homebound, and other special needs patrons across Regina. Here’s a pic I snapped when our monthly book club (the group listened to audio books but otherwise operated […]

Five Things You Don’t Want To See When You Take Your Kids To The Splash Park

5. Your son saying “Hey dad, try to keep this bottle standing up!” then looking over to see he’s left his bottle of root beer standing precariously on the edge of the picnic blanket without a lid.  (Needless to say, it didn’t stay standing up.) 4. Your daughter wandering into the running water of the various […]

Saturday Snap – New Bunk Beds in Our Garage?

Grandpa Dennis built us some new shelving for our garage. Once we got it in place, Pace and his buddy from down the street, Jeffrey, decided that the shelves would actually work better as bunk beds. They even convinced Grandpa to try them out!

A Fun Day at the Office

Usually it’s the Library Assistants who do this type of thing but today, I got to pitch in to play host to a visit from a school group. It was a great chance to exercise some “librarian muscles” I don’t get many opportunities to use and many of the things I learned in my Children’s Librarianship […]

Artistic Impressions

The branch I work at is the newest in the Regina Public Library system.  Since it opened just about two years ago it has had the following two pieces of art hanging in the YA area… These pieces have provoked a mixed reaction to say the least. Some staff and patrons felt that these pieces […]

Saturday Snap – Sunset Swing

Friday Fun Link – 29 Photos That Show The True Meaning of Playing With Death

Some very scary photos here…

#tbt Throwback Thursday – Summer Reading Program (July 17, 2009)

The TD Summer Reading Program is once again in full swing at libraries across Canada.  Here’s a pic of Pace and I with one of the entertainers (Walden the Wizard?) I brought in when I worked at Southeast Regional Library. Pace seems a bit uncertain of this wizard’s powers! 😉