Category Archives: Sad

Saturday Snap – Our Only Visit To Mexico During Covid…

Buy a six pack of Sol at the liquor store, some limes at the grocery store, and put beach videos on the TV. 🙁 (But hey, at least we’re being safer than overly entitled snowbirds!)

FutureMe: Letters To The Future

I recently heard about this site that lets you write letters to yourself at some point in the future. The idea is for teachers to use it with students, grandparents with grandkids, spouses to each other or pretty much any combination you can think of. You have the option to make your letter public but […]

The Covid Continuum

As Saskatchewan adds more restrictions, mostly on retailers in the post-Christmas period, I’m thinking a lot about how everyone is somewhere different on what I think of as the “Covid Continuum”. I’d say the range for this starts with anyone who’s absolutely minimized their outings since March – maybe only leaving the house to buy […]

“I told him I strongly recommend wearing it but…”

Anti-Maskers Throw Tantrums Nationwide

It’s so weird that the kids who used to cheat off the smart kids to pass science classes now yell “Do your own research!” as they claim to be experts in infectious diseases based on some Facebook memes, YouTube videos and reading a bunch of  unreliable web sites.

Beyond The Statistics: Prairie Woman Creates Facebook Page to Humanize Covid Stories

The creator of a FB page promoting the honest, non-partisan sharing of Covid experiences was a couple years behind me in school and I know her dad and family as well. It’s tragic that the reason she created this page was because her dad is one of many people in Indian Head affected by Covid […]

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – My Grandma at the Golden Prairie Nursing Home, Indian Head, SK (April 2004) #skpoli

As rumours spread that at least two dozen people in the community have Covid, my hometown of Indian Head, Saskatchewan is facing a jump in Covid cases that has affected the nursing home, local businesses and now both the elementary and high schools which are going to be closed for two weeks. WATCH: Over the […]

Friday Fun Link – Ruth Bader-Ginsburg On Not Retiring

From happier times…  

Friday Fun Link – Inside The World Trade Center (1999)

Saturday Snap – Camping Wrap-Up

Technically I took this photo yesterday but we spent most of the weekend at our seasonal campsite cleaning up after another great year so I’m counting it as my “Saturday Snap” photo this week…