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Throwback Thursday – Elvis Has (Not) Left The Building (May 2011)

I think it’s been eight years since we were last in Calgary which happened to be a weekend visit which combined a 50th Wedding Anniversary for a Calgary-based aunt and uncle and a 50th birthday party (featuring an appearance by The King!) for a Calgary cousin. Here’s a picture of my dad with eight of […]

Posted 22 August 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Banff Gondola and Sulphur Mountain Summit

It’s hard to pick a favourite part of our quick trip to Calgary – seeing the pandas at the Calgary Zoo (though gorillas and hippos will always be my favourites), driving past so many of our old haunts (even tried to buzz a neighbour whose name is still on the board at our former condo […]

Posted 20 August 2019 § Canada § Family § Jobs § MemoryLane § Pace § Sasha § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , ,

This Is A Photo of Me On Top of A Mountain in Banff (How’s Your Day Going?)

Posted 18 August 2019 § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Pandas Adjusting Wonderfully to Calgary Zoo

We didn’t have many plans for our week off in August (ten days counting weekends on either end) but a chance conversation with a library patron has us heading to Calgary for a few days. We’d been talking about visiting the Calgary Zoo to see the pandas since they were announced as coming.  But we […]

Posted 14 August 2019 § Canada § Family § Library § MemoryLane § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Five Things I Love The Most About Our rPod 182G

Hard to believe we’ve had our 2012 rPod for five years now having bought it used during summer 2014. Through the first couple years of pulling it around the province, one year in a provincial seasonal site and the last couple in a regional park, I continue to feel like we made an awesome decision […]

Posted 06 August 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Gone Camping – “I Googled My Symptoms”

Posted 19 July 2019 § Family § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Flooded Campsite

When we got to Nickle Lake Regional Park last Friday, we could see that there’d been a big downpour and there was a lot of standing water in some of the lower lying areas of the campground. When we got to our site, there was a bit of water in our site but nothing major […]

Posted 17 July 2019 § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

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 § ThrowbackThursday § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Retro Saturday Snap – Feet to the Fire

Now that camping season has started, I’m into that part of my blog calendar where I’m less likely to keep my “daily post” streak alive but may also come back at the end of the weekend and do some “retro” posts backdated to the days I missed. For example, it’s Monday night as I type […]

Posted 18 May 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

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.

Posted 15 May 2019 § LibrarySchool § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,