memories

Feb 08 2011

Remembering those Childhood TV Shows

For some reason this afternoon the Skinnamarink song came into my head. You know the one song by Sharon, Lois and Bram from back in the day. For some reason that I’m not going to understand it did, I was sing along in my head, Skinnamarinky dinky dink, shinnamarinky doo, and so on. So what did I do next, well I went to Twitter to ask if anyone else remembered them. The response was intense. I was recieving replies every 5 seconds, I couldn’t keep up.

Friends were singing along, reliving old memories. Then Brent broke out the Youtube videos of some of the old shows we all use to watch. Then the memories really started to come back. Sharon, Lois and Bram, The Polka Dotted Door, Today’s Special. Here are some of the videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu8wuyvl9Vc

It was nice to escape reality for a moment and relive some memories. I miss them. I also don’t think children’s shows today are anything like those ones.

What are some memories you have of tv shows from your childhood?

Nov 08 2010

It all started with a Outfitting Business

When I was 9,10, or 11, I can’t actually remember, my father changed jobs. At the time I didn’t realize how big of change it was, and well I still don’t think I really know how much of a change it was.

My dad was (still is) a fisheries biologist, for a the nation wide company Dillon Consulting. While the first diamond was being developed he did a lot of work with how the fish and water life were adapting to the new ecosystem. The mine was build on a lake, therefor the lake was moved.

His new job was in an entirely different industry. He went from the industrial/consulting industry to the tourism industry. He started managing an up and coming outfitting/ecotourism business. The business at the time owned a couple hunting camps and a ecotourism lodge on the arctic coast as well as doing several other things.

Like I said at the beginning I didn’t know how big this new job would change my growing up. That is why I’m starting with and as this portion of my memory will be the base point for a lot of memory posts to come.

Oh the memories I have.

Nov 07 2010

Journey Through My Memories

Something I have been wanting to do for the last couple months is start to recall memories. I know that sounds like a weird thing to do, but I have so many memories of my childhood, that I fear I will forget them.

I’m not talking about just writing little snippets of where I was and what I did. I intend to describe in detail the memories I have as best as I can.

I don’t know why I worry that I am going to lose these memories, but it just seems like I did so much, so many different things, that I don’t want to forget where I am coming from.

At a young age I traveled to a lodge on the Arctic Coast, I learned to drive at an hunting camp in the middle of the Canadian Arctic, work for 3 summers at a Old Gold Mine turned exploration camp, assisted in guiding both Caribou and Musk-ox hunts, got to walk with a thousand caribous, cruise around in a helicopter, travel to mexico twice and go on a cruise.

I have done an abundance of things at only 20 years old. I hope you’ll come along the journey of my memory.