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Category Archives: Saskatchewan

Saturday Snap – Old-Fashioned #Saskatchewan Saturday Night

My daughter doesn’t realise that when her dad was growing up, before the Internet and the 500-channel universe, TV bingo and polka parties were literally the only forms of entertainment available (no wonder I became such a big reader!) 😉 We re-created a small-town Saskatchewan Saturday night at our house tonight: Playing (fake) TV Bingo… […]

Posted 11 January 2020 § Humour § MemoryLane § Sasha § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Some Thoughts On Buying And Selling Houses in December

Shea and I made the offer on our new house on October 5 and took possession on November 22. For a variety of reasons, we were in a fortunate position where we didn’t have to make the purchase conditional on the sale of our old house and, in fact, we were fully prepared to float […]

Posted 10 December 2019 § Canada § Family § Jobs § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – So…What’d You Do Today?

Nothing much, just bought a house! 😉 (Er, obviously this is a story months and really, years, in the making but I’m sure I’ll get to the full story soon.  For now, I’m heading to bed after a *very* long day!)

Posted 22 November 2019 § Family § FridayFunLink § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Secular Sunday – I’d Prefer A Sprinkle of Success in the Red Zone

As an atheist, I always chuckle at athletes who inject their religion into the game or somehow seem to believe that god is helping them win or have success or whatever. I have no idea how much the Riders’ new quarterback, Cody Fajardo, thinks god’s helping him have success but given his “sprinkle of Jesus” […]

Posted 17 November 2019 § News § SecularSunday § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – #officialRPL Annual Report 1996 #yqr

One of the ladies in my branches’ “Celebrate Seniors!” program (she’s a model on page 2!) showed me an RPL annual report she recently rediscovered. Amazing stuff…

Posted 31 October 2019 § Library § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

NHL #HeritageClassic Highlights

Wrong team won but with a few days to think about it, probably worth it to see a 3-on-3 overtime outdoors (pond hockey!) and would’ve been even better if it had gone to shootout too!  

Posted 30 October 2019 § Canada § MemoryLane § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

2019 Edition of “First Snow of the Year” – Hawksley Workman

It created a pretty magical “snow globe” effect at the Heritage Classic last night, continued to fall through the night and it’s always a bit of a judgement call but it feels like it’s time to do my annual post of this song as it feels like the snow is here to stay again for […]

Posted 27 October 2019 § Blog § Canada § MemoryLane § Pace § PopCulture § Sad ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – Ready To Head Out to the Heritage Classic!

Pretty cool experience to go to the Flames Heritage Classic game in Regina with my Calgary cousins and our dads.

Posted 26 October 2019 § Canada § Family § MemoryLane § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Go Flames Go (April 2004 Stanley Cup Run)

I’m super excited for the Heritage Classic outdoor NHL game (first regular season NHL game in a non-NHL city ever!) on Saturday night at Mosaic Stadium. I’ve always been a Flames fan since I have a lot of family in Calgary but they were my second favourite team, at least until we moved to Calgary […]

Posted 24 October 2019 § Canada § Humour § MemoryLane § Photo § Sports § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

The Fundamental Choice This Election #elxn43 #canpoli

I’m not sure if it was something I learned in a political science class or read in a book or when exactly I figured it out. But I don’t think it’s especially profound to realise that, at its core, the biggest difference between people on the left and people on the right is that people […]

Posted 20 October 2019 § News § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,