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Saturday Snap – A Different Kind of Barn Raising?

Our next door neighbour at the lake showed up with a barn-shaped shed that he said was his Covid project with his kids (much more ambitious than *my* Covid quarantine project which was eating my body weight in chips and beer!) 😉 Anyhow, it was a huge job to get it placed, taking about ten […]

¶ Posted 11 July 2020 § Photo § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: camping, Covid

Throwback Thursday – Family Portrait at the Library (June 2011)

¶ Posted 02 July 2020 § Family § Library § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: book, cute

Music Monday – “Time stand still/I’m not looking back/But I want to look around me now”

I’ve been into my branch a handful of times since it shut down three months ago. But as RPL has begun slowly reopening over the past couple weeks, today was my first day back in branch doing more traditional library work. This is because we’ve started having mid-sized and smaller branches in the RPL system […]

¶ Posted 22 June 2020 § Library § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Photo § Saskatchewan § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: Covid, music

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Our First Dine-In Restaurant Meal in Three Months! (March 2020-June 2020)

Usually my “Throwback Thursday” posts go at least a few years back. But this one has me thinking of the past three months – from our last dine-in meal at the Houston Pizza near our house on Friday March 13 after we picked up the kids from what would be their last day of school […]

¶ Posted 18 June 2020 § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: Covid, food

Saturday Snap – Our Oasis

Doing a lot of work in our new seasonal campsite (we were granted a move from a smaller site we were in other years to a bigger, better one) to make it relaxing and peaceful…

¶ Posted 13 June 2020 § Family § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: camping

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Sunset at Jan Lake

¶ Posted 11 June 2020 § Family § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: weather

Thinking About That One Time A Cop Threatened To Beat Up Me and My Friends in High School

It’s obviously *very* different for myself as a middle-class white kid who grew up in a small town on the Canadian prairies compared to what’s happening to black people of all ages over and over again in cities across the US. But I had one particular experience in high school that showed me how easy […]

¶ Posted 31 May 2020 § MemoryLane § News § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: holiday

Saturday Snap – Our New Camper (2018 Forest River Cherokee Grey Wolf)

Shea and I had been tossing around the idea of upgrading to a bigger camper for a couple years but Covid sort of forced our hand this year. The initial restrictions for campgrounds included the fact that bathrooms would be closed and people would only be allowed to use their own camper’s facilities. Our rPod […]

¶ Posted 30 May 2020 § Family § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: camping, economics, travel

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Coteau Books Board of Directors (January 2016)

I joined the board of Coteau Books in early 2012 but this photo of the board is from January 2016. Coteau entered bankruptcy earlier this year so this is from happier times and what happy times they were. During my many years on the Coteau board, I met such a wide range of great people […]

¶ Posted 28 May 2020 § Jobs § MemoryLane § Photo § PopCulture § Sad § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: book, economics, education