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Happy Father’s Day! (Or is it Happy Twins Day?)

Some people use DNA tests to confirm their ancestry but the only thing I need to do to confirm my father and I are definitely related is to show up to a family event wearing the same clothes as my dad! Isn’t fashion sense genetically inherited??? 😉 All joking aside, Happy Father’s Day to the […]

¶ Posted 16 June 2019 § Family § Humour § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

The Best Part of the Blues Winning the Stanley Cup Tonight…

…is that I *finally* won the family hockey pool that a BC cousin has been running through regular season and playoffs for, what, ten years? You’d think that with twenty chances, I might have lucked into a win at least once, especially considering that probably more than half the entries are random picks by septuagenarian […]

¶ Posted 12 June 2019 § Humour § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: hockey

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Multi-Year Fence Project Finally Finished? (May 2014, May 2017, May 2018, May 2019)

We’ve been replacing our forty year old original fence in a series of mini-projects over the past five years. We started with the back part of our yard in May 2014 which was a major job as the neighbour directly behind us (no back alley) is at the end of a crescent on a pie-shaped […]

¶ Posted 30 May 2019 § Family § Jobs § MemoryLane § Photo § Shea § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, weather

Happy 12th Birthday Pace!

Mom and I are incredibly proud of the young man you’ve become!

¶ Posted 19 May 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

A Few Highlights/Lowlights as the 2019 Camping Season Begins

We spent the weekend in Weyburn getting our seasonal site ready which is why I didn’t post for the past few days. Here’s a few memorable moments from the weekend… Highlight: Sasha blurts out “This is the best day of my life!” as I push her on the swings. Then, the next day, she says […]

¶ Posted 12 May 2019 § Family § Humour § List § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: camping, holiday, saskatchewan, weather

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – How Did I Get Here? – #10 – Shea

Most couples meet through friends or dating sites or at church or the bar. The story of how Shea and I met is a bit more random. Her parents were at a funeral and happened to be talking to someone from my hometown. They mentioned their daughter was starting university in the fall and needed […]

¶ Posted 25 April 2019 § Family § Humour § List § MemoryLane § Shea § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: education

Bowling Birthday

Her actual birthday is on Tuesday but we had great fun at Sasha’s “bowling birthday” today. (And as an aside, as someone who dabbles in creative writing, I love studying the ebbs and flows in the popularity of names from generation to generation.)

¶ Posted 14 April 2019 § Family § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: health

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – How Did I Get Here? – #8 – Smalltown Saskatchewan

My standard line about farming is that, for whatever reason, I grew up more passionate about books than barley and more interested in computers than combines. With that said, I feel very fortunate that I grew up in a rural community as part of a farming family. I also managed to luck into getting the […]

¶ Posted 11 April 2019 § List § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: economics, education, history, saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – How Did I Get Here? – #6 – Comedy

After another week away from this series (honestly, I forgot I was doing this “How I Became Me” series last week after working a 1-9pm shift and, as I often do, whipping off a zero-effort post to keep my daily post streak alive instead of doing something a bit more in-depth and time-consuming.) Anyhow, […]