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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 […]

¶ Posted 22 December 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § News § Randomness § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, economics, xmas

Good-bye House!

Possession day for our old house is Friday so Shea and I spent a few hours tonight making sure we had completely cleared it out of all our stuff, did a final bit of cleaning, and having a few tears as we locked the door for the final time. I’m usually pretty sentimental about stuff […]

¶ Posted 18 December 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § Photo ‡ Comments (0) °

Five Things We’ll Miss About Our House

Our realtor had a photographer come to our old/current house today to take photos in preparation for our house being listed later this week and it brought home, perhaps more than any other step, that soon, the house we’ve called a home for fifteen years will likely soon no longer be ours. As excited as […]

¶ Posted 26 November 2019 § Family § List § MemoryLane § Pace § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (0) °

RIP John Mann (1964-2019)

It was a long, inevitable farewell. After announcing his Early Onset Alzheimer’s diagnosis in 2014, John Mann, lead singer and frontman of the seminal 90’s Canadiana band, Spirit of the West, embarked on a farewell tour with the band in 2014. Shea and I got to see this show and it reminded me of why, […]