Wednesday, 15 July 2026

Hello, Blogging Buddies!


Well, my recent blogging break
has concluded, so here I am again!

I did lots of things on my break
which you will learn about in due course
via various posts to come over the summer.

I did take a road trip for part of that time --
can you guess where?



Yes, that's right -- my home province and old stomping grounds
where I used to live until moving to Edmonton 30 years ago!

The provincial sign is located at the Saskatchewan/Manitoba border.
It depicts the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg
which is one of the places I went to in the city.

And of course, the Bison is the symbol of Manitoba.
This sign comes from a Tim Horton's en route,
so that's why it says "Always Fresh" in the breezy sky.
They mean the donuts, not the bison!

I visited some old friends, went to some
new attractions built since I last lived in Winnipeg,
revisited some of my former neighbourhoods
and favourite spots, and had a very good time!

And boy, do I know when to get outta town --
the day I left there was a tornado a few hours later
in a small community near Winnipeg.

Luckily, no fatalities but here's a look
at the ominous clouds gathering --


[Photos #2 and #3 © Debra She Who Seeks;
photos #1 and #4 courtesy of the Internet]

45 comments:

  1. I dropped by just in time to welcome you back. Looks like your time away was very well spent.
    Amalia
    xo

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  2. ...it GREAT to have you back, I've missed your wit!

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  3. Welcome back, you were missed. Now tell us all about your adventures.

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  4. Welcome back! Sounds like you had fun.

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  5. Welcome back! So glad to see your blog pop up on my reading list this morning!

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  6. Welcome back!
    Glad you dodged the tornado, and other than that it sounds like a good time away!

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  7. I thought you were the tornado? Seems like an age since we all been here. I sure hope blogger issues are fixed with the damn readers.

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  8. Welcome back! Looks like you almost had a Wizard of Oz moment at the end! Glad you had a gret holiday. -Jenn

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  9. Well, hello there!
    Glad to read you again! Missed your posts.
    And I so want to do a short road trip in Canada!

    XOXO

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  10. Hi, you've had very interesting holidays, thanks for telling of even the exciting tornado...
    Welcome back to the funny blogging world 🎭😍

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  11. welcome back!!
    Good timing 😳🌀

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  12. I'm glad you're back. I've missed you:)

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  13. Welcome home. Welcome back to blogging. We missed you!
    Glad that tornado didn't cause any fatalities. haven't experienced one of those since leaving Nebraska 46 years ago.

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  14. Missed you 💖

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  15. So happy to know you’re back. Can’t wait to read all your stories. That is an incredible (and frightening) photo.

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  16. Welcome home!! I was just thinking of you y'day, and hoped your vacay was going well ~ I'm happy you are back, and looking forward to hearing about your adventures!!
    Hugs ~ bobbie

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  17. Welcome back, hope your time away was good, glad you got to go back home. The last picture sure does remind us of what mother nature is capable of, glad there were no fatalities.

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  18. Welcome back! That last picture ... YIKES! I would have skedaddled out of there, too!

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  19. Welcome back. As for, “can you guess where?” … I’m gonna take a wild guess here and say “Manitoba” though it looked like you almost landed in Kansas.

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  20. We all need an occasional break. When we were towing an RV through Manitoba, we found ourselves in the middle of a buffalo herd. We cut off the truck engine, sat very still - it freaked our cat out.
    happy trails
    the Ol'Buzzard.

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  21. Oh, I totally forgot!
    I want you to give us your opinions on Madonna’s Confessions II The Film.
    DYING to read what you think about it!

    XOXO

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  22. Hi Sixpence Notthewiser -- I'll try to watch it this month if I can!

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    1. Yay!
      It's giving me some very specific vibes, but I want to know what you think!

      XOXO

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  23. Welcome back. I'm glad that you had a nice break, Debra.

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  24. Welcome back...looking forward to reading your insights about travel. I've visited Manitoba several times but only once to Winnipeg...we visited Flin Flon several times when I was a kid. Looking forward to hearing about the museum (and more)...would love to see it someday.

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  25. She's baaaack! Great. I'm glad you had a good trip and no doubt we'll learn about Manitoba soon.

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  26. Welcome home! Glad you missed the tornado!

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  27. Image 2- is that Manitoba welcome sign giving Trump and maga the finger ? :)
    CA jock

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    1. @ Anonymous (CA jock) -- If it's not, it should be!

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  28. Welcome back to the blogging world. Glad you had a good time on your trip. The photo of the sky is pretty scary, you timed your departure perfectly.

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  29. Wow. That is quite a picture. Luckily, I have never seen/been in a tornado. Strange enough, I was just reading about a Mansion in Houston that had flooded during Hurricane Harvey and was still sitting, deteriorating so many years later. I wish that act of Climate Change had happened to a certain Florida location so someone might realize there is such a thing.

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  30. Hope you brought us back some nice souvenirs from your trip down Memory Lane -- and they better not be crappy T-shirts!

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  31. Wow, that photo should win a prize! So glad to have you back, life is just NOT the same without you!

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  32. Holy mackerel-- that tornado looks scary as hell. Very scary indeed!
    Sounds like you had a fun and busy time! Welcome back.

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  33. Welcome back, Blogging Buddy! I have missed you! That tornado shot looks terrifying! I'm glad that you had a chance to visit your old stomping grounds. I look forward to hearing about your adventures!

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  34. Welcome back! Churchill or anywhere on Hudson Bay is on my bucket list. Lucky you for getting to visit Manitoba!

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  35. Welcome back, Debra! You've been missed.

    And do I feel for the people in that farmhouse.

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  36. Welcome back. That is a very impressive cloud formation, one I hope never to see in real life, because we don't have basements to shelter in!

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  37. I’m looking forward to reading all about what you did on your hols!

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  38. Glad to see you're back and had a nice time away. I haven't been to Manitoba. But that is a cool sign. I hope you show back up on my feed, so I'm glad you stopped and left a comment because I didn't see you there.

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  39. Hello Debra, Well, now life can go on for the rest of us. You are back just in time--it was only hours ago that I came across another weird pineapple reference, and who else am I supposed to torture with it? Anne Spencer Lindbergh wrote "The People in Pineapple Place", a children's book (involving innocent children!). Anne was the daughter of that ultra rat, Charles Lindbergh. Before yesterday, I did not know about his THREE secret families in Germany--apparently an attempt to repopulate the fatherland: https://www.mnhs.org/lindbergh/learn/family/double-life

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