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Everything Wrong With The National Day for Truth & Reconciliation (A Partial & Incomplete List)

Hudson’s Bay Company selling orange shirts. Provincial governments such as Saskatchewan who don’t declare it a holiday (even as some cities within those provinces do). Catholic schools putting the Christian cross on their orange shirts. Businesses, organizations & people that don’t buy their orange shirts from Indigenous companies. Our federal government and its representatives continuing […]

Posted 30 September 2021 § Canada § Jobs § List § News § Politics § Saskatchewan § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Five Highlights of Camping (August Version)

Between Shea and I, we camped a personal record of 62 nights this summer from May to September including two 2-week stretches, every weekend, every long weekend and probably a few extra nights we managed to squeeze in here and there. Here’s some highlights from the month we just wrapped up… 1. Cornhole Tournament My […]

Posted 05 September 2021 § Family § Humour § List § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – Hanging It Up For Another Camping Season

I may do a few entries about our summer but, for now, just sad that another great summer of camping is coming to a close…

Posted 04 September 2021 § Family § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Back From Camping (and Five “Redneck” Moments)

Eternal optimist that I am, I keep saying that Covid has had some unintended benefits. One of those is because we couldn’t do a winter trip this year, it also meant we had more holidays to take in the summer – two weeks in July but also two weeks in August which we don’t usually […]

Posted 22 August 2021 § Family § Humour § List § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Gone Camping

We’re off camping for a couple weeks so blog posts will likely be rare to non-existent during that time.  

Posted 09 July 2021 § Family § Photo § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – Happy Father’s Day!

Everybody in this photo has two doses of vaccine (except our teen who has one and our kid who isn’t eligible yet.) Feels really good to get close together on the couch for a family picture before a delicious steak supper!

Posted 19 June 2021 § Family § Pace § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Eric Carle, Author of “The Hungry Caterpillar” Among Many Other Classics, Has Died

Very sad news. We had a “Hungry Caterpillar” themed birthday when Sasha turned one that was a huge hit – great decorations (mostly homemade or from the Dollar Store), a “Hungry Caterpillar” dress ordered off Etsy, and her (at the time) five year old brother even did a reading of “The Hungry Caterpillar” using a […]

Posted 26 May 2021 § Baby § Family § Library § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture § Sad § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – The Camping Issue (June 2018)

Posted 20 May 2021 § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Happy 14th Birthday Pace!

Posted 19 May 2021 § Family § Pace § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Summer’s Getting Closer!

We knew my in-laws were going to pull out our camper to our seasonal site as soon as the park was open to campers today to get a head start on the coming weekend rush. We did not know they were going to dewinterize it for us, get the power going, put the slides out, […]

Posted 12 May 2021 § Family § Photo § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,