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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – My Grandma at the Golden Prairie Nursing Home, Indian Head, SK (April 2004) #skpoli

As rumours spread that at least two dozen people in the community have Covid, my hometown of Indian Head, Saskatchewan is facing a jump in Covid cases that has affected the nursing home, local businesses and now both the elementary and high schools which are going to be closed for two weeks. WATCH: Over the […]

¶ Posted 12 November 2020 § Family § MemoryLane § News § Sad § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, education, health, saskatchewan, science

Music Monday – “Oh beautiful, for spacious skies/For amber waves of grain/For purple mountain majesties/Above the fruited plain”

“America The Beautiful” – Ray Charles

¶ Posted 09 November 2020 § News § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, unitedstates

Saturday Snap – “Day Five of Election Night” Dance Party

It was a bit delayed while the counts come in slowly over the past few days. But Tuesday night’s light show has reappeared in our living room as backdrop for a very enthusiastic dance party now that Joe Biden has been annouced as President-Elect of the United States.

¶ Posted 07 November 2020 § Family § MemoryLane § News § Sasha § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, economics, history, television, unitedstates

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Indoctrination Begins Early (April 2011)

¶ Posted 05 November 2020 § Family § Humour § News § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) °

Bernie Called It

Pretty much word-for-word… https://twitter.com/onikasgivenchy/status/1323857811734933504 (via)

¶ Posted 04 November 2020 § News § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, language, unitedstates

Red, White and Trump Better Be Blue When This Is Over

Putting the smart lights to good use for a US election theme tonight…

¶ Posted 03 November 2020 § News § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, health, history, unitedstates

Music Monday – “2020, 24 hours to go/I Wanna Be Sedated”

I saw this clever play on words from the lyrics of a Ramones song on Twitter and had to steal it for today’s Music Monday post with 2020 being the craziest year in a century and twenty-fours until we’re watching election returns in the United States… “I Wanna Be Sedated” – The Ramones

¶ Posted 02 November 2020 § Humour § MusicMonday § News § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, language, music, unitedstates

Reviewing Ryan #skpoli #skvotes

Okay, a week has passed, most of the races potentially impacted by mail-in ballots have been decided, and since we just celebrated Halloween, what better time to assess a very scary election result for the NDP? I was going to do a more general post with my random election thoughts but since at least four […]

¶ Posted 01 November 2020 § News § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, health, saskatchewan

What If Saskatchewan Had Proportional Representation? #skpoli #skvotes

With at least eight ridings still to be decided, I’ll likely do a longer post with some thoughts on the Sask Election once the mail-in ballots are counted and we know what the final count is. But after a conversation on Twitter with a former high school classmate who felt the BC election didn’t represent […]