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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Grand Palladium, Dominican Republic (February 2015)

Posted 08 February 2018 § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Happy Anniversary Shea!

Technically, a better husband would do a better blog post for his wife on their 15th wedding anniversary. But since this is the anniversary of us doing the legal paperwork in jeans in our living room in Calgary while the anniversary of the day we had our wedding ceremony on the beach in Mexico fifteen […]

Posted 06 February 2018 § Humour § MemoryLane § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “Border guards they waved us through/’Andele ninos’ they cried/Love was a Mexican pony/You and I would ride”

Happy (legal) wedding anniversary one day early, Shea! I look forward to celebrating our (ceremonial) wedding anniversary with you in a month in Mexico and then our reception/party wedding anniversary later this summer! This song has a lot of religious imagery and considering we specifically requested a non-religious officiate who only slipped up once at […]

Posted 05 February 2018 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Shea § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – 10 Things I’m Looking Forward To On Our #MoonPalace #Cancun Vacation @palaceresorts #ThePalaceLife

This will be the first time we’ve done a two-week all-inclusive and I think it’ll be very luxurious considering a typical one-week vacation often only feels like much less than that since the first day is a travel day, the second day is a decompress/orientation day and then the second last day (for me anyhow) […]

Posted 02 February 2018 § FridayFunLink § List § MemoryLane § Travel § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “Down through Durango, Colima, Almiera/Then in the Manzanillo/Where I slept in the sunshine on the seashores of old Mexico” #ThePalaceLife

Less than a month to Mexico… (And it’s like a time machine working through the versions of this song – from the original Hank Snow to the 80’s era Haggard-Willie duet to the more modern George Straight version with a video shot in Tulum – aka the only place that I have ever got really […]

Posted 29 January 2018 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – One Month (and A Couple Days) Until Mexico (February 2017) #ThePalaceLife

Here’s a few random pics from our trip last year…

Posted 25 January 2018 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Playing Giant Jenga? Better Break Out The Protective Gear!

As a precaution, Sasha put on her boots and brother’s skateboarding helmet at New Year’s to play the lifesize Jenga game that Grandpa Dennis made for us. I’d upload the video of the game finally toppling when Grandma Joan tried a difficult move but I jumped pretty high myself when it toppled over! 😉

Posted 06 January 2018 § Family § Humour § Sasha § Sports § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “My life’s a bit more colder/Dead wife is what I told her/Brass knife sinks into my shoulder/Oh babe don’t know what I’m gonna do”

It was a great way to kick off the New Year last night with Shea and I seeing a show at Casino Regina featuring Blake Berglund & Belle Plaine opening for The Dead South. All are great Saskatchewan artists but The Dead South are really hitting the big time – they’ve toured in Europe, won […]

Posted 01 January 2018 § Meme § MusicMonday § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Pace Sees The *Real* Santa!

Pace has seen the *real* Santa (not those fake mall ones!) three times – once when Santa came to Grandpa and Grandma Hammond’s on Christmas Eve when Pace was probably around two or three years old.  (Coincidentally, that Santa had the same eyeglass frames as a neighbour down the street.) 😉 Once at our house […]

Posted 28 December 2017 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § ThrowbackThursday § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

A Few Post-Christmas Thoughts

I can’t find it now but I have a memory that in December 2011, I posted a screen grab of a weather forecast showing +4 for Dec 24, Dec 25 & Dec. 26.  (Here’s one from around the same time on the same subject.)  At any rate, it’s been brutally cold this week and I’m […]

Posted 26 December 2017 § Family § Humour § List § MemoryLane § Pace § Sasha § Shea § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,