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Music Monday – “Put out my lawn chair/Watching the sun arising/Evening comes/I’m watching the sun go down” #saskatchewan #sask #camping #provincialparks #summer #echovalley #fortquappelle

I’ve finally had time to go through all the pictures (2000+!) that I took over the course of the entire summer and winnow them down to a handful of favourites. That’s still more than most people should have to sit through at a single sitting so what I did was create a long slideshow with […]

Music Monday – “I spent my days working, spent my nights drinking, howling at the moon/Screaming for the days when you were coming back, no couldn’t come too soon/Couldn’t come too soon”

Another thing that made our summer so amazing was the non-stop music… …that we played from morning to night (okay, Shea’s not as big of a music fan as I am and occasionally asked for some peace and quiet to read her book!) Above is a graph of how many individual songs I played each […]

¶ Posted 11 September 2017 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Sad § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: camping, music, travel

10 Reasons Why Taking A Seasonal Camp Site Led To Me Having One of the Best Summers of My Life!

It could’ve easily gone the other way. If we’d had a rainy summer, if we had neighbours who played loud rap until all hours of the morning (nothing against rap – just not my idea of campground music), if we hadn’t been able to get out to our site as much as we did, if […]

¶ Posted 10 September 2017 § List § MemoryLane § Pace § Sasha § Shea § Travel § Work ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: camping, holiday, saskatchewan, travel

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Bridge Between Katepwa and Mission Lakes (Aug 30, 2009)

I’ve always liked this photo taken from a boat in the channel between Katepwa and Mission Lakes in the Qu’Appelle Valley. Not bad for an iPhone 3G camera…

¶ Posted 07 September 2017 § MemoryLane § Photo § Technology § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: saskatchewan, travel

Music Monday – “All summer long we’ve both been free/Won’t be long til summer time is through/Summer time is through”

One of the most poignant episodes of The Simpsons is “Season of 4 ft 2” which tells the story of the Simpsons family taking a summer vacation to the lake. Lisa, who’s usually an outcast nerd, ends up befriending a group of cool kids while Bart, who normally has a large circle of friends, is […]

¶ Posted 04 September 2017 § Family § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Pace § PopCulture § Sad § Sasha § Shea § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, cute, holiday, music, saskatchewan, travel

Saturday Snap – Autumn Falls

Fun to play in but fallen leaves are also a sad reminder the summer’s coming to an end. 🙁

¶ Posted 02 September 2017 § MemoryLane § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, holiday, saskatchewan, travel

My Son’s First Major Concert Is @gunsnroses #gnrregina #yqr #notinthislifetime #WishesItWasEminem

(I didn’t get a good picture of my son at the GnR concert tonight but here’s one of us camping which is fitting since that’s where this story begins…) When Guns n’ Roses was announced for the first “big” concert at the new Mosaic Stadium, I wanted to go but decided not to buy tickets […]

¶ Posted 28 August 2017 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § PopCulture § Travel ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: camping, economics, music, parents, saskatchewan, travel

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Heading To Our Seasonal Site (May 2017)

This one doesn’t reach too far back but given that summer’s (too) quickly coming to an end, I thought I’d post a selfie Shea took of us on our way out to our seasonal campsite in mid-May (and yes, I think our daughter might’ve been buried under some pillows since our van was so full!)