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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – This One Time, In Scotland…

I know I just posted some old pictures in a post about the Scottish referendum but since the actual referendum is today AND it’s Throwback Thursday, I realise I should’ve held off on that post until today. So , even though you just saw them, here they are again along with a bit more of the […]

Posted 18 September 2014 § Canada § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § UK ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

A White Paper for Scotland (Guest Blog Post)

So I haven’t paid too much attention to the Scottish Independence referendum (I think my first real glimmer of awareness is when Ryan Meili picked “Better Together” as a campaign slogan a couple years ago and a team member pointed out we’d be working with the “No” side in the Scottish referendum in the world […]

Posted 16 September 2014 § Canada § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § UK § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

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 […]

Posted 04 September 2014 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § Shea ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Music Monday – Fur Elise in Different Tastes

A man sits down to play a piano that’s been put at one of the gates at an airport in Prague.  Other passengers who are waiting get a pretty good performance…

Posted 01 September 2014 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – Hiking at Willow Bunch Campground

Posted 30 August 2014 § Pace § Photo § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun LInk – “The Coolest” Cooler Breaks Pebble’s Kickstarter Record

The Coolest – a modern cooler integrating all kinds of cool technology and gimzos has unseated Pebble’s over two year long record for highest earning Kickstarter offering, earning $10.7 million to Pebble’s $10.3 million. The Kickstarter has closed now so you can’t get in, even if you wanted to (I did for Pebble but not […]

Posted 29 August 2014 § FridayFunLink § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

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 […]

Posted 22 August 2014 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

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 […]

Posted 19 August 2014 § Family § MusicMonday § Pace § Photo § Politics § PopCulture § Sasha § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap § Shea § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Parenting Around The World

Very interesting…

Posted 15 August 2014 § Baby § FridayFunLink § Humour § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “Ouzo!”

I remember seeing the New Zealand band, Hobnail Boots (now known as “Hobnail“) when they played the Ness Creek Festival during a cross-Canada tour, maybe in the mid-1990’s? Funny how hearing the opening notes of this song immediately brought back great memories of their entire performance… “Ouzo” – Hobnail Boots

Posted 14 July 2014 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,