Category Archives: Saskatchewan

Friday Fun Link – Only in the Prairies (Record High and Record Low, Same Day, One Year Apart)

This graphic showed up on Reddit as a perfect snapshot of what you can expect in Alberta – a record high and record low only one year apart.  (It showed up earlier this week and I didn’t bookmark it but assume it was a shot from around this time of the year – late September […]

Saturday Snap – Autumn Falls

Saturday Snap – Filipino Grocer Opens in #yqr

Saskatchewan’s increasing diversity continues to change the landscape of the city as another new specialty store has opened – this one a Filipino grocer called Mang Gerry’s which adds to specialized grocery stores we already have which specialize in foods from Korea, East India and more. Here’s a few of my purchases after my first […]

Help My Wife Win A Contest While Promoting Breastfeeding Awareness for #yqr

Shea’s currently involved in a contest on Facebook where the top vote getters will receive free photo shoots and then be featured in a calendar promoting breastfeeding awareness and raising funds for a badly needed breast milk depot for Regina. If you want to help her out, click on this link and Like the photo […]

Our New rPod 182g Ultralight RV

Shea and I had a pretty expensive visit to Indian Head earlier this summer. We went to the splash park and happened to bump into some friends who were back from Calgary for a few days.  In the course of talking to them, they told us they’d just bought a new rPod camper. We’d seen one […]

Saturday Snap – Hiking at Willow Bunch Campground

Friday Fun Link – GasRun.ca

GasRun. ca is a pretty cool site that uses your location to estimate the day’s gas price then allows you to enter two destination points and the type of vehicle you drive to estimate how much it would cost for you to travel one-way or return between those two points. So, as an example, I typed […]

Holiday Weekend Catch-Up

I took a couple days off on Monday and Tuesday to have an extended long weekend to go camping with Shea’s and my folks and to attend Shea’s cousin’s wedding.  Which means I need to do another extended weekend catch-up of missed blog posts… Saturday Snap As mentioned, we went to Shea’s cousin’s wedding at […]

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – “On the Read Again: Southeast Regional Library Bookmobile”

It wasn’t in service when I worked at Southeast Regional Library but one day coming back from a branch, I noticed this parked in the compound of a local auto wrecker and snapped a picture (and yes, briefly considered making an offer on it!) Man, how much of the public library’s history across North America […]

Journey to the Grey Cup: The 2013 Saskatchewan Roughriders

Great TSN documentary (that I feel like I’ve posted already but if so, it’s worth watching again!)