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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Grandpa Peet in Uniform (circa 1945?)

After missing the last couple years for obvious reasons, an aunt who visits us from Kelowna for a few weeks every spring is here now. One of her hobbies is genealogy and related, she likes to scan and catalogue old photos. She brought a thumb drive with hundreds of old family photos which means I’ll […]

Posted 26 May 2022 § Family § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Happy 15th Birthday Pace!

Hard to believe this video montage I made of pics from when Pace was born is from fifteen years ago! (Also hard to believe it’s my most viewed video of all-time with nearly 50,000 views but I attribute that more to using a Loretta Lynn song than people being interested in pics of Baby Pace!) […]

Posted 19 May 2022 § Baby § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Our Little Roughneck (August 2011)

I suspect I’m not the only person in Saskatchewan who has a complicated relationship with the oil and gas industry. I think even people who work in the industry and/or who are pro-oil know that there are environmental impacts (though they will argue about the extent of those impacts – anywhere from “oh, it’s just […]

Posted 12 May 2022 § Family § Jobs § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , ,

RIP Craig Smith (1972-2022)

I heard some shocking news from my parents a couple weeks ago and saw confirmation from his sister on Facebook a few days ago. Craig and I were only a couple grades apart but, in a small town, two years could feel more like twenty. So we weren’t particularly close in school but our parents […]

Posted 10 May 2022 § Family § Library § MemoryLane § Randomness § Sad § Saskatchewan § Sports § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – Supper With Friends (and Some Thoughts on the World We’re Living In)

Shea and I went for supper with some friends on Friday night and it was good to catch up, compare notes, and have a few laughs after not having done a restaurant meal with people who we’d normally go out with a few times per year before Covid. (We have done virtual happy hours/outside visits/potlucks […]

Posted 30 April 2022 § Family § Humour § Jobs § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Smile! (May 2014)

I love watching my kids grow but I miss when they were small too…mostly because you could dress them in ways that were as entertaining to you as a parent as anything!

Posted 28 April 2022 § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “It was late last night the other day/I thought I’d go up and see Ray So l went up and I saw Ray/There was only one thing Ray could say, was…”

Happy birthday to my dad, Ray, who showed up yesterday along with my mom after a weekend visiting my sister. We didn’t have a formal gift for him but did give him a steak supper and homemade Saskatoon pie! “Motorcycle Song” – Arlo Guthrie

Posted 11 April 2022 § Family § MusicMonday § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “It’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright/It’s your birthday, dear (Alright)”

“Birthday” – Lumineers 

Posted 28 February 2022 § Family § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “And we can still get information/Reading all about inflation/And you’re never gonna be out of reach/There’s a call-box on the beach”

Shea’s folks are in for appointments and staying at a hotel so we popped over for a swim and a visit. For some reason the song below kept running through my head (and that, in turn, bringing back fond memories of season-ending party at my hometown pool where all the lifeguards did a poolside dance […]

Posted 07 February 2022 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Photo § PopCulture § Sasha § Shea § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Kauai/Maui Trip (January 2012)

A co-worker recently told me she’s going to Kauai and I am incredibly jealous. Kauai might actually be the single most beautiful place I’ve been on this earth and Shea still says Anini Beach is one of her favourite beaches of all-time. Here’s a montage video I made of our trip which had eight days […]

Posted 03 February 2022 § MemoryLane § Pace § Shea § ThrowbackThursday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,