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The NHL Season Begins Tonight! (Moves Like Jagr)

He wasn’t in the lineup for the Flames opening night loss to the Oilers (well, to Connor McDavid who had a hat trick in a 3-0 victory). But I’m pretty excited to see Jaromir Jagr in a Flames jersey! Watch this first if you don’t know why I’m excited… Then watch this to have a […]

¶ Posted 04 October 2017 § Canada § Humour ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: economics, hockey

Trump Loves NASCAR

¶ Posted 26 September 2017 § Humour § Meme § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, unitedstates

Trump On Protesters

Trump supporters on protests (and what’s offensive)…

¶ Posted 24 September 2017 § Humour § Meme § News § Photo § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, unitedstates

Saturday Snap – Ramping Up The Friendships

Pace set up a bike ramp in front of our campsite and suddenly six kids showed up to ride on it with him (I managed to catch four of them in this photo.)

¶ Posted 22 July 2017 § Family § Pace § Photo § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, holiday

Why Pro Wrestling Is A Perfect Metaphor For Trump’s Presidency (And Ten Things Donald Trump Learned From ‘rasslin)

Trump continues to do things that no President has ever done before. As a lifelong fan of wrestling, I agree with much of what this commentator says (and have said it myself as well – scroll down to “American Idol” in this post from right after he won the Presidency.) Basically, in my view, Trump is […]

¶ Posted 02 July 2017 § List § News § Politics § United States § Wisdom § Wrestling ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, television

End of Year Track Meet

One of the things that seems like a downside of my current job at a branch is that I have to do some evening and weekend work. But sometimes that turns out to be an advantage. Because I worked this past weekend, I had Monday and Tuesday off. And so I was able to go […]

¶ Posted 27 June 2017 § Family § Humour § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, health

Saturday Snap – The Exact Opposite of Us Pulling an rPod With A Minivan?

Pulling a giant fifth wheel RV with a semi – something I’ve never seen before! The family happened to be around when I snapped this pic so I stopped and chatted for a minute – the dad said they had their big rig to pull a semi trailer that had been customized as living quarters […]

¶ Posted 24 June 2017 § Humour § Photo § SaturdaySnap § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, travel

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Sk8r Boi (April 2012)

Pace is really into skateboarding now so it was interesting to come across this picture from when he was five which is probably the first time he ever tried out a skateboard. This was taken in the backyard of one of Shea’s friends whose husband is also really into skateboarding and other extreme sports.

¶ Posted 22 June 2017 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: sports

“Spelling” – NHL 2017 Stanley Cup Ad (and some previous kick ass ones)

Man, the NHL really kicks ass with their annual Stanley Cup ads. Here are a few I could find… 2017 – Spelling 2015 – Name 2013 – Handshake 2012 – Boys 2010 – No Words 2008 – Cup Raise

¶ Posted 11 June 2017 § Meme § MemoryLane § News ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, history, hockey

Mike Bossy: Letter To My Younger Self

The Player’s Tribute site has some brilliant writing by famous athletes. Today’s post is by my favourite hockey player of all-time. Dear 14-year-old Mike, I write to you today as a 60-year-old man, and I have some news from the future that you probably aren’t going to believe. There are 30 teams in the NHL […]