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Minor Milestones While Recovering From Breaking The Scaphoid Bone In My Wrist

It’s weird how much we take having two working hands for granted. Since breaking my wrist at the end of July, it’s been a series of minor milestones – from my first appointment with my family doctor a few days after the surgery where he changed my dressing on through things like being told I […]

¶ Posted 19 September 2018 § MemoryLane § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, science

Music Monday – “Cause here on earth it feels like everything good is missing since you left/And here on earth everything thing’s different, there’s an emptiness”

Death was a dark cloud haunting our summer in a variety of ways. In August, I lost a great aunt who lived in Weyburn at age 86. Earlier in the summer, I drove up to Warman for the funeral of one of my favourite cousins who was only in his 50’s when cancer took his life. He […]

¶ Posted 17 September 2018 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: camping, health, music, saskatchewan

The History of the World Trade Center (Documentary)

¶ Posted 11 September 2018 § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, science, television, unitedstates

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Peet Family Reunion (July 2013)

Earlier this summer in my post about a cousin that passed away, I mentioned how I was fortunate to know the many members of the Hammond side of the family quite well because I grew up in the same town as the matriarch of our family. For a variety of reasons, I never got to […]

¶ Posted 23 August 2018 § Family § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: camping, holiday, saskatchewan

Cost of A Broken Wrist? USA = ~$10,000, Canada = $12

Doing a lot of reading about various aspects of the scaphoid bone I broke in my wrist and always shocked to see American sites talking about the cost of healthcare (~$6000 – $10,000 for the x-rays, hospital stay and surgery I had) or how they would forego treatment completely due to a lack of health […]

¶ Posted 01 August 2018 § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: unitedstates

Music Monday – “We’re just two lost souls/Swimming in a fish bowl/Year after year”

Not sure if they’ll upload it or not but if they do, I’ll replace this clip with the slideshow they showed at my cousin’s funeral on Saturday… “Wish You Were Here” – Pink Floyd

¶ Posted 09 July 2018 § Family § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Saturday Snap – Some Aunts & Uncles at Cousin’s Funeral

Did an eight-hour round trip from Weyburn to Warman, SK for my cousin’s funeral on Saturday and was very glad I did – not just to be there to celebrate the life of my cousin of course but also because the sad reality is that often, its only weddings, milestone birthdays and funerals where you […]

¶ Posted 07 July 2018 § Family § Photo § Saskatchewan § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: parents, travel

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – RIP Cousin

While camping a couple summers ago, we got word that, after years battling a variety of health issues, one of my dad’s ten siblings had started to fail and passed away soon after. Considering that dad was from a family of ten kids and all of his siblings had managed to reach their late 60s, […]

¶ Posted 05 July 2018 § Family § MemoryLane § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: parents

Friday Fun Link – @officialRPL Mother’s Day Video

This RPL Mother’s Day video is great! It makes me excited for RPL Father’s Day video next month where various dads who work for the system try not to get emotional while reading passages from “Fight Club” to our children. 😉 Just kidding – this video is great and I know I can’t get […]

¶ Posted 11 May 2018 § Family § FridayFunLink § Library § MemoryLane § Pace § Sasha § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, language, parents

Tragedy Fatigue

Other than both happening in Canada, both being unexpected, and both resulting in large losses of life, there aren’t many similarities between the tragedy in Humboldt earlier this month and the one in Toronto last night. But the fact that both happened only a couple weeks apart when it feels like events of this type […]