Posts Tagged With "long weekend"
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September (and the labour day long weekend) arrived and we found ourselves making the six hour drive North to Grande Prairie, Alberta for some family-related adventures. As it turns out, last month Karin’s grandfather hit one of those epic age-link milestones …
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My country is one hundred and forty-five years young today. This means (a) long weekend, and (b) hanging out with the family at a few fun events.
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I don’t know that you’d call it a win, but it was definitely a finish.
The annual Melissa’s Road Race took place in Banff, Alberta this last weekend, and I went out for my third time running in the event.
In 2009 …
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A “reloaded” post is a quick-clipped summary of a bunch of small things from the past few days. I want to write them down, but I am either lacking in (a) details or (b) time. That’s just how it goes sometimes. …
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… and a roundup of the weekend events.
It’s been no secret around our house that those official daddy-days have been in quiet jeopardy for some time now. Between that little stint of unemployment last summer, and the uncertainty of a job …
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It’s not that the gas mower is broken, or anything. I figure the reason I went out an bought the cheapest (albeit brand new) rotary push mower I could find was this eclectic penchant for the anachronistic I tend to secretly …
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Double Jeopardy: Karin, away for a couple days of work retreat in Canmore, switched me flex days so my “Wednesday Daddy Day” promptly morphed into “Friday (Plus) Daddy Weekend.” Yes, a long weekend. But, a long weekend as a single …
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We spent the long weekend in Saskatoon. Now I’m trying to catch up. In the meantime, there are stacks of new pictures of both the trip and the post-sunny weekend garden growth in the gallery. Spring pictures are always …
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We’re all on the mend here after a few days of moderate (though merely annoying) head-colds, one of the souvenirs we brought back from Portland. (Alice will likely feel guilty ’cause I wrote that, but after her generous hospitality the least …
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