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Saturday Snap – Our Summer Family

When we were at Echo a few years back, we met, befriended and hung out with (and got hungover with!) a few other young couples. (I know “young” is relative for me these days but Shea’s a lot younger than me so I follow her lead on that!) When we got our seasonal site at […]

¶ Posted 07 September 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, holiday, saskatchewan, travel

Music Monday – “This tiny space is all I need to live in/A simple life’s good for the soul/And I think I’m going to live in a boler/Tow it behind me wherever I go”

I used this song as part of a longer end-of-season montage after our first summer seasonal site three years ago but it deserves a post of its own. (Make sure you read the story about the singer from the Ovarian Cancer “Walk of Hope” page below – very tragic story for such a joyful song.) “Living […]

¶ Posted 02 September 2019 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, holiday, music, saskatchewan

10 Reasons We Love Camping

As we begin the sad process of closing up our seasonal site for another year, it feels like a good time to do a list of the reasons Shea and I enjoy camping so much: We both camped lots with our own parents growing up so we know how it can create amazing memories for […]

¶ Posted 01 September 2019 § Family § List § Saskatchewan § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, education, health, holiday, parents, saskatchewan, science

Saturday Snap – A Glimpse of Our Future?

Shea and I really enjoying the camping lifestyle and, although it’s still a few years away, have begun talking about what it would be like to downsize our house and buy a small camper/motorhome/camper van and just travel around in that once we retire. We got a glimpse of what it might be like this […]

¶ Posted 31 August 2019 § Family § Shea § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: camping, travel

Eating With The World’s Most Isolated Tribe

We live in a pretty amazing world where I can use some of the world’s most advanced technology – the Internet, YouTube, wifi – to watch a video clip about one of the world’s most primitive societies.

¶ Posted 28 August 2019 § Internet § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: food, health, history, language, travel, youtube

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: alberta, parents

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: alberta, cool, economics, education, history, holiday, science, travel

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: alberta

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 […]