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Camping Injury Report

Camping is a strange thing – you pay a lot of money to basically live in the wilderness with all the attendant dangers and risks. This summer, we’ve had a few… Pace hit himself in the face with a metal scooter while attempting a trick, cutting his face, giving himself a fat lip and loosening […]

Posted 08 August 2017 § Family § List § Pace § Sad § Saskatchewan § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – 39 s’Mores Hacks That Will Change Your Life

  Of course Buzzfeed has the perfect listicle for this topic. We’ve tried a few s’mores variations ourselves with a current favourite being “Exploding s’moreos” where we not only use an Oreo instead of a graham cracker but also the limited edition Fireworks Oreos that have pop rocks candy mixed in!

Posted 04 August 2017 § Family § FridayFunLink § List § Pace § Photo § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

A Good Recurring Camping Injury To Have?

Every single weekend when we get back from our seasonal site on Sunday night, I feel like my legs are on fire from all the walking, biking, hiking, swimming and assorted heavy lifting I’ve done over the weekend (and no, I’m not just counting all the beer cans I’ve lifted to my mouth as “heavy […]

Posted 16 July 2017 § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Saskatchewan § Shea ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,

Saturday Snap – Happy Canada Day!

Posted 01 July 2017 § Canada § Family § Photo § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

End of Year Track Meet

One of the things that seems like a downside of my current job at a branch is that I have to do some evening and weekend work. But sometimes that turns out to be an advantage. Because I worked this past weekend, I had Monday and Tuesday off.  And so I was able to go […]

Posted 27 June 2017 § Family § Humour § Pace § Photo § Sports § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Twitter Just Learned Sasha Obama’s Real Name (And That The Obamas Have Lied About Another Birth Certificate Issue!)

Although it’s shocked the online world to find out that Sasha Obama’s parents have lied about another birth certificate issue, I’m happy to report that our Sasha remains who we say she is.  😉

Posted 23 June 2017 § FridayFunLink § Humour § News § Politics § Randomness § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – Some Random Thoughts on the Last Day (?) of STC #skpoli

Yesterday was the last day of the Saskatchewan Transportation Company which was shuttered as part of the Sask Party’s extreme cuts in their last budget. Founded in 1946 by Tommy Douglas’ CCF government as a way to connect and serve a widely distributed and (at the time) mostly rural province, STC hit highs for ridership in the […]

Posted 01 June 2017 § Family § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § News § Pace § Photo § Politics § Sad § Saskatchewan § Travel ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Saturday Snap – Sasha in the Valley

Posted 27 May 2017 § Photo § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Some Random Thoughts From #rcmpmusicalride in #yqr

A group of eight of us were very excited to take in the “Canada 150” Edition of the RCMP Musical Ride last night, not least of which because Shea’s cousin’s husband is an RCMP member who has been training for the last couple years so that he could be riding in the Tattoo for this […]

Posted 24 May 2017 § Canada § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Saskatchewan § SecularSunday § Shea § Wisdom ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

10 Advantages of a Seasonal Camping Site

I didn’t post over the weekend as we were camping at our seasonal site at Echo Valley Provincial Park. We’ve had our camper for three years (two full summers since we bought it in August of our first year) but so far, we’ve only done quick hit trips – a week here, a weekend there. Shea’s folks […]

Posted 23 May 2017 § Family § List § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Saskatchewan § Shea § Travel § Wisdom ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: , , , ,