Saturday Snap – Ramping Up The Friendships

Pace set up a bike ramp in front of our campsite and suddenly six kids showed up to ride on it with him (I managed to catch four of them in this photo.)

Friday Fun Link – Camping Hifi

Bluetooth speaker in a bucket…

Throwback Thursday – Birthday Cake with Baby Pace (July 18, 2007)

Pace and I sharing some cake on my birthday ten years ago…

Europe’s Top Things To Do According to Trip Advisor

(via Reddit)

Birthday Blogging or Birthday Clogging?

Last night, I looked back through all 10+ years of July 18 posts on this blog and I realised that I rarely post on my birthday.

That’s probably a good thing – it shows I’m likely doing stuff in the real world instead of staring at a screen. ๐Ÿ˜‰

For example, today I was out doing important stuff like claiming my free birthday poutine…twice! ย I had free poutine once at lunch and again at supper! ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

It’s a long story how that happened this year but the main point is next year’s birthday entry might be from the cardiac ward!

Lunch…

Supper…

Music Monday – “Pancho was a bandit boys/His horse was fast as polished steel/He wore his gun outside his pants/For all the honest world to feel”

“Pancho and Lefty” – Townes Van Zandt

A Good Recurring Camping Injury To Have?

Every single weekend when we get back from our seasonal site on Sunday night, I feel like my legs are on fire from all the walking, biking, hiking, swimming and assorted heavy lifting I’ve done over the weekend (and no, I’m not just counting all the beer cans I’ve lifted to my mouth as “heavy lifting”.) ๐Ÿ™‚

This weekend I added to my pain by using a foot pump to fill a pool we’d bought after realising that the plug-in charger we brought wasn’t actually charged but needed to be for a few hours before it could be used.

With a couple melting kids waiting to try their new pool, waiting for that plug-in charger to be ready was definitely not an option!

Saturday Snap – Wood Pile at Echo Valley Provincial Park

Friday Fun Link – Kids From The 1970’s Are Parenting Differently Today

Lots of truth in this article.

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Our New (To Us) rPod 182g (August 5, 2014)

Funny, just realised that I posted a similar Throwback Thursday post almost a year ago to the day. ย Must be mid-summer when I realise how glad I am that we bought our rPod! ๐Ÿ™‚

Anyhow, above is a picture of Shea as she went with my parents to pick up our rPod three summers ago in Davidson, halfway between Saskatoon (where the owner lived) and Regina (where we live.)

I think I’ve told the story of how we came to buy our rPod before so won’t rehash here. But I’d go so far as to say it’s one of the best purchases we’ve ever made!