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Music Monday – “But that world is gone/It’s all disappeared/It’s just me and the ponies/For Christmas this year”

With the announcement of stronger Covid restrictions for Saskatchewan, just in time for Christmas, this song has been going through my head non-stop… “Just Me and These Ponies (For Christmas This Year)” – Corb Lund

¶ Posted 14 December 2020 § Family § MusicMonday § News § Saskatchewan § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: Covid, health, holiday, saskatchewan, xmas

A Memorable Way to Decorate a 2020 Christmas Tree

Between the four of us, we’ve accumulated numerous masks over the last few months. Shea’s dad suggested we could use them to make a very memorable 2020 Christmas photo (and this doesn’t even include all the ones we have stored in vehicles and stuffed in jackets and left at work!)

¶ Posted 29 November 2020 § Family § Humour § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: Covid, health

Saturday Snap – Lessons From The Grandparents

Went out to Indian Head to help my parents celebrate their 49th anniversary and spend some time with them. Grandma Showing Sasha How To Make Waffles… Grandpa Teaching Pace How To Drive…

¶ Posted 24 October 2020 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Katepwa Lake (August 2011)

¶ Posted 01 October 2020 § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: saskatchewan

Saturday Snap – A Delayed Housewarming Gift

My parents dropped off a very cool housewarming gift the other day – a Century Family Farm plaque our family received on the 100th anniversary of my great-great grandfather homesteading our family farm in 1883 – framed in barn boards from that same farm. We got the plaque in 1983 (I think the same year […]

¶ Posted 19 September 2020 § Family § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, history

Five Thoughts As I Enter My Fourth Month of Quarantine

I did a list like this about a month ago and so I thought I’d do another one as I’m now a few days into my *fourth* month of quarantine to see what’s front of mind these days… 1. Public libraries *finally* have a date for permitted opening which will be Phase Four Stage Two […]

¶ Posted 23 June 2020 § Jobs § Library § List § Pace § Saskatchewan § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: Covid, economics, health, holiday, science

Happy Father’s Day!

Nice to enjoy the day with my father and my son (who is modeling the robe I got as a Father’s Day gift)…

¶ Posted 21 June 2020 § Family § Pace § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: camping, holiday

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. […]

¶ Posted 04 June 2020 § Baby § Family § FridayFunLink § Humour § MemoryLane § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: camping, cute

Throwback Thursday – Barn Board Accounting (April 1932)

This is pretty special – my dad was getting some barn boards from our farm to use in framing projects and found one where my grandfather had done some accounting as he sold grain to others (according to dad, he remembers the grain being sold by the five gallon pail.) My brother-in-law stained the board, […]