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Friday Fun Link – The Tallest Building Between Winnipeg and Calgary

…and we were hanging out on top of it earlier tonight (though I know it’s hard to tell how high we are from the angle of this photo!)

¶ Posted 08 July 2016 § Family § FridayFunLink § Photo § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, cool, economics, parents, saskatchewan

Saturday Snap – Canada Day Picnic

Enjoying the Canada Day celebrations at Wascana Park…

¶ Posted 02 July 2016 § Canada § Family § Pace § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, holiday, saskatchewan, weather

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – There’s A Reason I Don’t Use Print Phonebooks Anymore

I haven’t used a regular phonebook in maybe a decade? But we still get one on our door every year and Shea happened to notice we’re still listed – which is weird since we also dropped our landline and only use our cells. Turns out the phone book still lists our phone number and address […]

¶ Posted 16 June 2016 § MemoryLane § Photo § Shea § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) °

~ Swirl ~ (A Poem About How The Orlando Shootings Gave Double Meanings To Everything This Weekend)

(I started writing this Sunday night but didn’t finish until Monday. I’m backdating it to be a Sunday post though as that seems most appropriate given Sunday’s incredibly tragic events.) ~ Swirl ~ Thursday My library staff do a tour of the local Muslim school. We observe prayers. We learn to say “library” in Arabic. […]

¶ Posted 12 June 2016 § Library § MemoryLane § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, health, history, language, music, unitedstates

Saturday Snap – Guess Who We Saw in The Lobby of the #yxe Bessborough Hotel This Afternoon?

Some random dude wearing a cowboy hat. But wouldn’t it have been cool if we happened to see Garth Brooks? 😉

¶ Posted 11 June 2016 § Humour § Photo § PopCulture § Randomness § SaturdaySnap § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Getting Excited For @GarthBrooks in Saskatoon! #yxe

I’m not going to post a picture of Sasha running around the house naked in a cowboy hat but I can tell you that she’s not even going to the concert yet her parents’ excitement must be contagious. Mommy was singing and dancing in the kitchen, daddy dug through his old CDs to find the various […]

¶ Posted 10 June 2016 § Family § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Sasha § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “Silent now but you used to laugh before”

In 1990, just before they got massive, The Tragically Hip played a small club in Regina called “The Venue”. Someone put a video camera on one of the balconies in the club and has now posted some of this historically valuable footage. Here’s a clip of an unreleased early song called “Night Comes Down” (or “Night […]

¶ Posted 06 June 2016 § Canada § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, music, saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Dad and His Classic Car (early 1960’s?)

Usually for Throwback Thursday, I find a photo from sometime between 2006 (when I got my first digital camera) and now. But just like last week when I found a pic of Shea and her mom when Shea was quite young, I stumbled upon another older photo in my archives – my dad with what […]

¶ Posted 02 June 2016 § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, history, parents, saskatchewan

Saturday Snap – Birds of a Feather…

Shea took a great photo at the lake today…

¶ Posted 28 May 2016 § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: science

Gord Downie Taught Me To Dance: Memories of A Band That Defined Me and My Country

So I woke up today to the very sad news that Gord Downie, lead singer of the Tragically Hip, has terminal brain cancer. Obviously, as you age, it’s natural that your own heroes and icons will age ahead of you. But 2016 has been a rough year where we lost some top-shelf music icons – […]