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Saturday Snap – Our Oasis

Doing a lot of work in our new seasonal campsite (we were granted a move from a smaller site we were in other years to a bigger, better one) to make it relaxing and peaceful…

Posted 13 June 2020 § Family § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – King of Staten Island Trailer

Everything’s changing due to Covid and Hollywood is no different.

This is a movie that would’ve had a fairly traditional release – film festival then widely in theatres then to video-on-demand – but it is now being released today directly to various video streaming services where you can “rent” it for $20 USD (more expensive than the old $5 movie rentals at the corner video store but still *way* cheaper than the ~$100 or so it costs for a couple adults to go out to a movie in the theatre these days!)

This one was already wrapped before Covid hit but it will also be interesting to see how film and television production moves forward in our Covid-world.

 

Posted 12 June 2020 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Sunset at Jan Lake

Posted 11 June 2020 § Family § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

“Coronavirus Is FAKE NEWS!”

 

Released on March 6, I think this was the first video that I came across by this guy, maybe a week or two later.

And like many people, I initially thought it was a real guy sharing his views rather than a comedian doing satire (Poe’s Law states “without a clear indicator of the author’s intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the views being parodied.

He’s continued to release short videos on Twitter throughout quarantine and every single one is spot-on and hilarious!

I honestly think that if Netflix created a special that was just these clips strung together it would be bigger than Tiger King! 🙂

Posted 10 June 2020 § Humour § Meme § News § Politics § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Nashville Public Library “Curb Side, Baby” Promotional Video

This is amazing…

Posted 09 June 2020 § Humour § Library § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Blackbird singing in the dead of night/Take these broken wings and learn to fly/All your life/You were only waiting for this moment to arise”

 

“Blackbird” – Paul McCartney

Posted 08 June 2020 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Five Reasons We’re Happy to Be Camping During COVID

As mentioned previously, Shea and I are looking forward to camping this summer as much as possible.  Thinking about the Covid world we live in, there are a few reasons why we’re happy this is our hobby!

  1. If our summer plans included a trip to BC or Alberta or other out-of-province destinations, we’d have all kinds of worries about higher Covid case volumes in most destinations to attractions and other places we wanted to visit being closed to possibly having to quarantine when we return.  We have none of those worries going to what is basically a self-contained camp site an hour outside Regina.
  2. Camping makes it really easy to socially distance.  We’ve said multiple times how we’re physically closer to our next-door neighbours’ houses in Regina than we are at our campsite.  We can still visit with people but just make a point of not getting too close (though I chuckled when I introduced myself to one of our new neighbours and she came right over and shook my hand.  What are you going to do?)
  3. Not all services are available at our regional park but we can compensate for everything that’s not available – we can use the bathroom and shower in our camper instead of the communal facilities, we can play games and do activities in our site instead of at the playground or craft shack, we can order takeout from the restaurant instead of dining in.
  4. Your Covid mask can come in handy for other purposes – whether you’re emptying your sewer tank or spray painting a beer fridge (both things I did this weekend!)
  5. And god forbid that I did still manage to be exposed to Covid-19 while camping, depending how bad it is, it still might be a toss-up if that’s the worst health-related emergency I had while camping! 🙂
Posted 07 June 2020 § Family § List § Photo § Saskatchewan § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – Camper Underwater?

The RV that Shea and I recently upgraded to has some sexy blue interior lights that make it seem more like you’re in a deep diving submarine than an above-ground vessel!

Posted 06 June 2020 § Family § Humour § Photo § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – You About To Lose Yo Job (Remix)

The situation in the US with the blatant police brutality and absence of any restraint or empathy in the actions of many police officers.

But there are moments of levity including this “dance remix” of a protester who informed a police officer that he was about to lose his job because he was illegally detaining her.

https://twitter.com/Remixgodsuede/status/1268373310410240001

 

Posted 05 June 2020 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Jobs § Meme § News § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – Locked in The Camper (August 2015)

I told this story soon after it happened but now, five years later, it also qualifies to be a “Throwback Thursday” post as well.

At the time, we were at Shea’s parents’ campsite getting ready for supper and no one was paying much attention to Sasha in the camper as people bustled in and out.

Except somehow, our darling angel managed to time it *perfectly* so that she flipped the lock on the camper door when no one else was inside!  Worse, this was the bright red deadbolt lock they never used so we didn’t have a key for it either.

We could see Sasha through the window but couldn’t figure out how to make her understand how to re-open the lock she’d engaged.  So we watched as she smiled and waved and soon after, happily started chugging a bottle of chocolate syrup that had been left on the table into her mouth!

A crowd of neighbhours gathered, all with ideas on how to get into the locked camper – pop out a window?  Send Pace through the roof vent?  Could we get in through one of the storage pass-throughs?

We called everyone we could think of that might have a key that worked – the local RV dealer.  Someone who had the same model of trailer.  A locksmith.  But no one was around and/or had anything to help us.

Finally, after about an hour of trying to figure out a less destructive way in, Grandpa got out his drill and drilled right through the lock to get in.

Sasha was happy as could be but we realised it couldn’t been very dangerous – if she started flipping switches on the slide-outs or got into the knife drawer or who knows what (at that point, I think we would’ve broke a window and dealt with it later!)

Anyhow, it’s become a pretty legendary story and as we head into another summer of camping, delayed by a few weeks from when we normally start, here’s hoping for another memorable (but not *too* memorable) summer! 😉

Posted 04 June 2020 § Baby § Family § FridayFunLink § Humour § MemoryLane § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,