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Saturday Snap – A Versatile Sign @officialRPL Regent Place Branch #yqr #ReadAboutWeed #GuideToGanja #MaryJaneMonographs #GetBuzzedonBooks

Usually, the “Homegrown” sign at my library helps identify a display of Saskatchewan books or perhaps a display of books about gardening or agriculture or something along those lines. But with the legalization of marijuana this week, we found another way to use this sign… 🙂

¶ Posted 20 October 2018 § Canada § Humour § Library § News § Politics § PopCulture § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, education, health, history, science

Thanksgiving Closing Hours for Canadian Public Libraries

A few years back, I did a post where I researched the closing times for various Canadian libraries on Christmas Eve day. Of course Christmas Eve is not an “official” stat holiday but it’s still a day that many workplaces (not just libraries) recognize as a slow time and/or a good time to close early […]

¶ Posted 08 October 2018 § Canada § Jobs § Library § LibrarySchool § List § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, economics, holiday, ontario, orgdevl, saskatchewan

Reunion at a Funeral

There was a mini-IHHS Class of ’91 reunion at the funeral of Kyle Raaf today. Our classmate, Erin, gave a moving eulogy for someone she described as “not just my big brother but my hero” and her stories of how Kyle had such a positive impact on so many people during his too-short 46 years […]

¶ Posted 26 September 2018 § Family § Jobs § MemoryLane § Sad ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: saskatchewan

Saturday Snap – My Christmas List (on the First Day of Fall)

Yesterday was the first day of fall but much of Saskatchewan had already received a heavy snowfall and Regina got a sleety-snowy rain that didn’t stick around but definitely felt more like winter than fall. There were other signs that it felt more like winter than fall as well. When I turned on the “Flow” […]

¶ Posted 22 September 2018 § Family § Humour § Sasha § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: saskatchewan, weather, xmas

Throwback Thursday – Image Cable Installer (Summer 1991)

A bit of a different Throwback Thursday this week. I recently posted about how death was a dark cloud this summer with a handful of people we know and/or were connected to having died. Unfortunately, that trend has continued into September with my parents letting me know that the father of one of my best […]

¶ Posted 20 September 2018 § Jobs § MemoryLane § Photo § Randomness § Sad § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education

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 § Sad ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: camping, health, music, saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – Congrats Yens Pedersen! (June 2009) #skpoli

Longtime NDP member, former Sask NDP party president and candidate for office and party leader, Yens Pedersen, won the byelection in Regina Northeast yesterday to boost the number of Saskatchewan NDP MLAs to 13. My first introduction to Pedersen was when he competed against Ryan Meili for Leader of the Saskatchewan NDP in 2009. At […]

¶ Posted 13 September 2018 § MemoryLane § News § Politics § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “You give me love I didn’t earn/Love I’m learning that I’m worth/As it turns out, love just don’t care who we were”

Congrats to Saskatchewan’s own, Jess Moskaluke, who won the Canadian Country Music Association “Album of the Year” award last night… “Past The Past” – Jess Moskaluke

¶ Posted 10 September 2018 § MusicMonday § News § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music, saskatchewan

Saturday Snap – One of the Saddest Days of the Year

Packing up our seasonal camp site for the final time this summer and pulling out our camper from the spot that’s been its home for the last five months…