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Music Monday – “You shut your mouth/How can you say/I go about things the wrong way?/I am human and I need to be loved/Just like everybody else does”

¶ Posted 08 November 2021 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Secular Sunday – We Are All Born Atheists…

¶ Posted 07 November 2021 § Meme § SecularSunday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, education, language, philosophy

Saturday Snap – Swimming Lessons in the Age of Covid

Sasha missed her first week while we were waiting for a Covid test result (luckily negative!)

Then when we arrive for this week, it’s a very different experience than ever before – proof of vaccination to enter a city facility, get a stamp to confirm to any other staff that we were screened by their security guard, required to wear a mask in the pool area (I usually don’t mind wearing a mask for extended periods but 30 minutes in a muggy pool area was tough!)

I almost wondered if we’d see a kid with a full-face snorkel mask on!?! 😉

¶ Posted 06 November 2021 § Family § Humour § Photo § Sasha § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health, science

Friday Fun Link – The Literature Clock

This site is pretty cool – it tells you the time by showing a quote from a book that happens to reference whatever time it is at the moment…

¶ Posted 05 November 2021 § FridayFunLink § Internet § Library § PopCulture § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, cool, education, language

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Birthday Cake (May 2016)

Pace’s ninth birthday…

¶ Posted 04 November 2021 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday

“Indian Head is super nice…it’s not like any other small prairie town I’ve been too”

My hometown gets a couple nice compliments in a Reddit thread about best Saskatchewan towns/cities…

¶ Posted 03 November 2021 § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: reddit, saskatchewan

Funeral for a Family Friend

It was being used a bit before Covid but the pandemic definitely made livestreaming a more common option for all sorts of major life events including birthdays, holidays, weddings and especially funerals.

This has come in handy a few times recently – over the summer when a former coworker died of stage four breast cancer, we were camping in Weyburn but I was able to “attend” the funeral from there instead of making a 2.5 hour round trip into the city.

Then again, when a guy I graduated high school died of Covid in Medicine Hat about a month ago, I was able to see an online archive of his funeral after a friend sent it to me.

And most recently, just this past Monday, when a family friend who farmed very near our farm, whose wife nursed with my mom for years, and whose kids I even babysat occasionally, died of cancer. Even though I wasn’t able to attend in person or even watch live, I was again able to watch the archived livestream after the fact which was nice given I couldn’t be there in person.

¶ Posted 02 November 2021 § Family § Internet § MemoryLane § Sad § Saskatchewan § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health

Music Monday – “When I’m in the shower/I’m afraid to wash my hair/’Cause I might open my eyes and find someone standing there”

Halloween’s over but this was our song of the year as Sasha kept singing it over and over after hearing it on my Halloween playlist…

“Somebody’s Watching Me” – Rockwell (featuring Michael Jackson)

¶ Posted 01 November 2021 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, music

Scary Science Facts – Even If It’s Halloween, Don’t Read This Thread If You Have Anxiety/Depression!

This thread probably isn’t a good one to read ever, let alone on the scariest day of the year!

“Scientists of Reddit, what’s a scary science fact the public is generally unaware of?”

Happy Halloween everyone!

This one is of particular interest to Saskatchewan…

If you think the pandemic was bad, this is possibly the single scariest one for me in the entire thread in terms of chaos and disruption to all human life (not counting the asteroid strikes or accidental nuclear wars that would end all life fairly instantly.)

So hard to pick a few that are particularly horrific but this one jumped out at me for some reason. The idea that millions could die because their sweat couldn’t keep them cool just seems unbelievable…

¶ Posted 31 October 2021 § Internet § List § Meme § News § Politics § Sad § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, health, holiday, science

Saturday Snap – All I Want For Christmas…

…is an $18,000 piece of art!

But I should back up…

After picking up Sasha for her art class (she’s decided she wants to be an artist or art teacher when she grows up), we all went to Pile of Bones Brewery intending to have a Saturday afternoon beer/soda. But it was packed so we headed to the other end of the list in terms of beverage options – the Excalipur Cat Cafe but same thing – very busy on a beautiful Saturday afternoon.

Right beside the Cat Cafe, there’s the Nouveau Gallery and so we decided to go in and let our budding artist have a look around, having never been before.

They had a Wilf Perreault exhibit on and it was of extra interest to me since this one had a Beatles theme to it (I’m a “super fan”, don’t you know!)

The gallery is operated by Mr. Perreault’s daughter and she was very engaging – telling us about the art, offering to take our picture, and even letting Sasha play with their resident cat which was a bonus having missed out at Excalipur.

I was particularly taken with this piece, titled “Abbey Road”, which she showed us even has a hidden detail of the Beatles crossing Abbey Road!

(Can you spot The Beatles? Look right above the fence…)

Anyhow, it pays sometimes to be pretty spontaneous – we wouldn’t have likely ended up going into this gallery if the other places we’d stopped hadn’t been so busy and/or Sasha hadn’t just came from art class.

But we turned out having a great experience, talking about art, arts funding, book publishing (Coteau Books had published a book of Mr. Perrault’s art on behalf of the MacKenzie Art Gallery) and even our respective close encounters with different Beatles!