“In a word, pleasure. It’s like my pleasure in other people’s leisure.”

 

Trump Loves NASCAR

Music Monday – “I been crying out, “How bad can a good time be?”/Shooting off my mouth, that’s another great thing about me/I have everything but I feel like nothing at all/There’s no risky thing for a man who’s determined to fall”

I’m never sure from day to day if I’m a fan of U2 or not.

But I do know I’ve always been a sucker for a creative music video…

You’re The Best Thing About Me” – U2

Trump On Protesters

 

Trump supporters on protests (and what’s offensive)…

Saturday Snap – Like Mother, Like Daughter #ndpldr @thejagmeetsingh

Shea’s mom meets with Jagmeet Singh in Weyburn (home of Tommy Douglas) Saturday afternoon…

Shea meets Jagmeet Singh in Regina Saturday evening…

Friday Fun Link – The Definitive Ranking of Every Tragically Hip Song

Lots to argue with here but points for even trying to make this list (the author strikes on an interesting conceit to make it work, grouping songs thematically to count them down.)

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Skunk Cabbage Boardwalk (June 2010)

Sounds like an appealing hiking spot…

 

Happy 80th Birthday Aunt Joan!

I had the honour of attending the 80th birthday of my Aunt Joan with various other family members at The Keg last night.

Aunt Joan is the fifth of my dad’s family of ten siblings to reach this milestone (unfortunately, the sibling who would be next in line to reach this milestone passed away last year so that ends an otherwise pretty remarkable longevity record for the family – though my Aunt Verna did reach 77 so that’s pretty amazing too!)

But here’s hoping to continued good health for all remaining nine siblings and that those who reached 80 will eventually reach 90+ (as my Grandma did!) and those that haven’t yet reached 80 will all make it to that milestone and beyond as well!

Pace made a punny card for his “great” aunt…

 

The birthday girl got two kinds of cake…

 

Sasha seems to be saying “I know you’re going to have your first baby soon but I just want to warn you that the baby will eventually turn into a four year old like me!” 😉

 

Redditor Tracks White House Chief of Staff Face Palm To the Exact Moment Trump Goes Off Script

Any shot of a person rubbing their forehead could be taken out of context.

But when it’s a photo of the White House Chief of Staff face palming with his watch clearly visible (ENHANCE!) while the President is going off script threatening to annihilate North Korea, you know the Internet’s going to be on the job.

Music Monday – “Put out my lawn chair/Watching the sun arising/Evening comes/I’m watching the sun go down” #saskatchewan #sask #camping #provincialparks #summer #echovalley #fortquappelle

I’ve finally had time to go through all the pictures (2000+!) that I took over the course of the entire summer and winnow them down to a handful of favourites.

That’s still more than most people should have to sit through at a single sitting so what I did was create a long slideshow with most of our favourites (~200 pics, 14 minutes) covering all aspects of our summer seasonal camp site, a medium one (~100 shots, 8 minutes) focused mostly on the people at our site without shots of “extras” (not as many sunset, campfire and other random photos), and a “highlights” reel (~50 photos, 3 minutes) with the “best of the best”.

So depending on how much time you have, feel free to enjoy one of the three following slideshows, posted from longest to shortest (and I’ll enjoy comparing the YouTube view counts in a couple weeks!) 😉

 

I put different songs as background music for each video (they’re listed on the description of each YouTube video) but the one I quoted in the subject of this blog post is “Living in a Boler” by Saskatchewan’s own, Mandy Ringdal.