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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Coteau Books Board of Directors (January 2016)

I joined the board of Coteau Books in early 2012 but this photo of the board is from January 2016. Coteau entered bankruptcy earlier this year so this is from happier times and what happy times they were. During my many years on the Coteau board, I met such a wide range of great people […]

Saturday Snap – Drive-Thru (Our Grille) [Content May Disturb Some Viewers]

I don’t do warnings on this blog very often but I know the photo shows a dead animal and so may bother some people. You’ve been warned. So anyhow, we went out to Weyburn all day yesterday. Last fall, we applied for and received a transfer to a new seasonal campsite – bigger, closer to […]

¶ Posted 16 May 2020 § Family § Photo § Randomness § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping

Coteau Books Auction – May 20, 2020 #yqr #sasked #saskedchat #yxe #sask #sk

This had been a shitty year for me, even before the COVID pandemic hit. Coteau Books, which was a long-standing literary press in Canada for nearly half a century, and which I’d served on the board of directors of for nearly a decade, entered bankruptcy protection in late February. I’ll likely do a longer post […]

¶ Posted 12 May 2020 § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, economics, education, history, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “Oh come back love, Oh come back love/The sun and moon refuse to shine/Since I’ve gone love, gone away love/This lonely girl has had no peace of mind”

“Fare Thee Well Love” – The Rankin Family

¶ Posted 20 April 2020 § Canada § MusicMonday § News § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, music

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Crowded Concourse Before COVID (October 2016)

So weird to scroll through old pictures and see crowds of people in any of them. This was at the new Mosaic Stadium soon after it opened when they hosted a Rams game as a “test” event…

¶ Posted 09 April 2020 § MemoryLane § News § Photo § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Sports § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health, saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Three Month Anniversary in Our New House (November 2019)

Hard to believe it’s been three months in our new house. This is a shot of me leaving our old house for the last time…

¶ Posted 20 February 2020 § Family § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “It’s over/You don’t need to tell me/I hope you’re with someone who makes you feel/Safe in your sleep, being tonight/I won’t kill myself trying to stay in your life/I’ve got no distance left to run.”

“No Distance Left To Run” – Blur

¶ Posted 10 February 2020 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °

Great Article (But I Still Wish We Had A Film Industry in Saskatchewan!)

Layton Burton was one of the few who didn’t have to leave the province when the government cut the Film Tax Credit but he did have to go back to school in his 50’s and completely reinvent himself.

¶ Posted 03 February 2020 § Jobs § MemoryLane § Politics § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, movies, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “I was takin’ everything they had to give/It wasn’t all that bad a way to live/Well I’m in this desert town and it’s hot as hell/But no one’s buyin’ what I got to sell”

“Jerusalem Tomorrow” – David Olney

¶ Posted 20 January 2020 § MusicMonday § News ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

An Extra Emotional Day in “Hammond Housing”-Related News

Friday turned into an even more emotional housing-news related day then we expected. In addition to being the possession day of our old house for the new owners, we heard that the condo complex where we lived for a couple years during our time in Calgary was engulfed in flames displacing numerous residents only a […]