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(Belated) Throwback Thursday – #tbt – That’s A Switch! (April 2008)

Pace used his saved up birthday/Christmas/babysitting money to buy himself a $500 Nintendo Switch the other day – a long ways from when he was a year old and having fun on the $50 desktop computer I bought from Southeast Regional Library after they decommissioned it.

¶ Posted 11 July 2019 § Baby § Family § Humour § Library § Pace § Photo § Technology § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, economics, education

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – I Miss America (March 2009)

Happy (?) Fourth of July. I think I’ve mentioned that Shea’s and my “mini protest’ after Trump was elected was deciding not to go to the USA – mostly because of him but also because I just found the USA to be increasingly at odds with my personal values in general – from the gun […]

¶ Posted 04 July 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § News § Photo § Politics § Travel § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, holiday, unitedstates

Music Monday – “Well, Canada’s been good to us/We’ve a living and a home/We’ve all got central heating air/And most are on the phone/I’m a citizen of both countries/And very proud to be/For the thistle and the maple leaf/Are the emblems of the free”

Happy Canada Day! I recently re-discovered this photo of myself and four other four Canadians on exchange to the University College of Ripon & York St. John (say that three times fast!) in 1995. I can’t remember the impetus for our fashion choice – maybe at a dance or for the new student orientation? – […]

¶ Posted 01 July 2019 § Canada § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, travel

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Nickle Lake (October 2015)

¶ Posted 20 June 2019 § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Go Raptors Go! (May 2017)

Pace and some of his friends trying out the new Raptors Junior Basketball Hoop that he got for his birthday a couple years ago…

¶ Posted 13 June 2019 § Canada § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sports ‡ Comments (0) °

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Farewell Aunt Sandi! (May 2008)

For the past few weeks, we’ve had another good visit with my Aunt Sandi who comes out from BC every spring to spend time with us. Here’s a shot from one of her first visits the year Pace turned one…

¶ Posted 06 June 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo ‡ Comments (0) °

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Multi-Year Fence Project Finally Finished? (May 2014, May 2017, May 2018, May 2019)

We’ve been replacing our forty year old original fence in a series of mini-projects over the past five years. We started with the back part of our yard in May 2014 which was a major job as the neighbour directly behind us (no back alley) is at the end of a crescent on a pie-shaped […]

¶ Posted 30 May 2019 § Family § Jobs § MemoryLane § Photo § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, parents, weather

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Tree of Tears (July 2015)

About four years ago, we came back from a camping trip to find that a neighbour’s tree had split and was being removed. One of the branches hung over the fence into our yard and Sasha had some tears when she realised she’d no longer have a swing. I had tears too but they were […]

¶ Posted 23 May 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – The Name Tag Makes It Official? (June 2006)

While i was doing my Master’s program in London, ON, I went in to Toronto to attend BookExpo Canada. I wasn’t done my program but this might have been the first time I was referred to as a “Librarian” in any sort of semi-official capacity.