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Music Monday – “Everything is better with some cows around/Living in town sometimes brings me down/Let me bestow this western blessing and share what I have found/May you always have cows around”

According to last.fm, this was my most played song of the summer. Having camped with a farming/ranching family on one side and a guy who was not only a farmer/rancher but a cattle buyer at a livestock exchange on our other side, I can understand why! šŸ˜‰ “Cows Around” – Corb Lund

Posted 03 September 2018 § Family § MusicMonday § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Future Tag Team Champions? (August 2012)

Pace and a buddy at the free Stampede Wrestling show during the Regina Exhibition a few years back…

Posted 30 August 2018 § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Saskatchewan § Sports § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Summer’s end around the bend just flyin’/The swimmin’ suits are on the line just dryin’/I’ll meet you there for our conversation/I hope I didn’t ruin your whole vacation”

“Summer’s End” – John Prine

Posted 27 August 2018 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Trump Prison Montage

Great editing – anybody recognize which show/movie this is from?Ā  So familiar but I can’t place it…The Wire? The Departed?Ā  Something else?    

Posted 24 August 2018 § FridayFunLink § Humour § News § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

SF Books That Didn’t Belong in the Kid’s Section of the Library

I’ve always believed that science fiction is the single best type of writing to teach us about our own lives and society. So I’m absolutely fine when I think about sci-fi books with “inappropriate” content being put into the hands of kidsĀ even though the author of this article seems to think librarians put some books […]

Posted 22 August 2018 § Censorship § Library § MemoryLane § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

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 § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Retro Friday Fun Link – Fred Armisen Does Accents To The City Level

A Netflix interview between Jerry Seinfeld and David Letterman led me to this…

Posted 17 August 2018 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Travel § UK § United States ‡ 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 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Retro Friday Fun Link – The Cognitive Biases Tricking Your Brain

This article should be mandatory reading before someone is allowed to use the Internet!

Posted 10 August 2018 § Infographic § Internet § List § News § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

My Five “Go To” Camping Albums

Here are my default listening choices when camping… “Coyote” – Blake Berglund – our default summer album continues to be a fave this summer “Six Volts” – Fred Eaglesmith– my (current) favourite Fred Eaglesmith album Ā “Traveller” – Chris StapletonĀ – last.fm says I listened to “From A Room Vol. 2” more but “Traveller” would’ve been my […]

Posted 07 August 2018 § List § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: