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Music Monday – “I saw a treehouse on the outskirts of the farm/The power lines have floaters so the airplanes won’t get snagged/The bells are ringing through the town again/The children look up, all they hear is sky-blue bells ringing”

Live music is slowly coming back including Jason Isbell covering R.E.M. at Red Rocks the other night. (Not to mention, that same night, I got to see a local artist covering an Isbell song at the Nickle Lake beer gardens which was just as enjoyable!) “Driver 8” – Jason Isbell (R.E.M. Cover)

¶ Posted 02 August 2021 § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, music

New Southeast Regional Library (@srlhq) “Little Library” at Nickle Lake Regional Park

Can’t wait to check out (er, pun intended?) this little library out this weekend (and on a related note, I was hanging out with the new Weyburn Library Branch Head last weekend too. Yep, I’m that cool!) 🙂 The “Beaver Den” is the park’s arts & craft shack but I’m still bitter that my entry […]

¶ Posted 28 July 2021 § Jobs § Library § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, camping, economics, education, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “Walking through town is quite scary/It’s not very sensible either/A friend of a friend he got beaten/He looked the wrong way at a policeman”

This song has been going through my head all day for some reason. (In completely unrelated news, Go Habs Go!) “I Predict A Riot” – Kaiser Chiefs

¶ Posted 05 July 2021 § MusicMonday § Sports § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: hockey

Saturday Snap – Campfire Reading

Love to see Sasha using a headlamp to keep reading by the campfire after the sun goes down…

¶ Posted 03 July 2021 § Family § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, camping

Friday Fun Link – Cristiano Ronaldo Is Not Human

¶ Posted 02 July 2021 § FridayFunLink § Sports § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics

Music Monday – “Every night, I say a prayer/In the hopes that’s there’s a Heaven.”

I don’t think Pace has a theme song for his grade eight grad today. In my hometown, I went to elementary school until grade six then to high school in grade seven and I didn’t have a grade six grad theme song either (that I remember.). But it’s got me thinking back to my own […]

¶ Posted 28 June 2021 § Humour § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Pace § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, parents

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Sask Book Awards/Alberta Book Awards (multiple years from 1997 to present)

Tonight was the 2021 Saskatchewan Book Awards and I also recently found the 2021 Alberta Book Awards on social media. I spent nearly a decade in the literary non-profit sector and both served on the board of the SBA for a few years (as well as a frequent volunteer doing everything from taking tickets to […]

¶ Posted 24 June 2021 § Library § MemoryLane § News § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, book, education, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “There’s a great hot desert/Down in Mexicali/And if you don’t have water/Boy, you’d better not go/Tequila won’t get you/Across that desert/To Evangelina/In old Mexico”

“Evangelina” – Colter Wall (Hoyt Axton Cover)

¶ Posted 21 June 2021 § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – “Trump Trips Up” (~May 1991?)

I was going through some old papers in a box under the stairs recently and came across a folder of articles I’d clipped and saved, long before most articles from popular magazines were available online from databases or from the magazine’s own web site like they are today. Had to chuckle for a couple reasons: […]

¶ Posted 17 June 2021 § Humour § Internet § Library § LibrarySchool § List § MemoryLane § News § Photo § Politics § Randomness § ThrowbackThursday § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, unitedstates

Why Bo Burnham’s “Inside” Is So Good

Maybe because, like “Nanette” by Hannah Gadsby, it totally deconstructs what a “comedy” special is? Or maybe because it’s one of only a handful of truly reflective, unique artworks created during Covid that capture what this past year has been like? Or maybe because I’m pretty sure he does this by not mentioning Covid once […]