• About Bailing Bucket

    Bailing Bucket is the creative blog of Rhett Soveran.

    Rhett lives in Calgary, AB, works as the Web Editor of WestJet's up! magazine and is married to Leah... More about Rhett Soveran.

    Each post has at least two lies (that's probably a lie).

Monthly Archives: November 2009

Site problems?

Is anyone experiencing this site in a super-zoomed in form? Adam apparently is when he comes in from his Google Reader feed, but I cannot recreate the error.
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Your favourite posts

Well, I have tallied the results (from comments, emails, Twitter) and here are—after three and a bit years of blogging—your favourite posts so far. Couple Dating Leah’s News
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Antisemitism ruined this blog post

It’s true. Duke’s poop slowed it down. But antisemitism ruined it. I wanted to title the post Knowing Jews. A post where I could explore the transition from hearing all about the trials and tribulations of the Jewish people to actually meeting and befriending Jewish people. However, saying “Jews” when you aren’t [...]
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Duke’s poop

Sorry that I haven’t posted in so long. I had this great plan to post regularly and then we got Duke. I was thinking I shouldn’t post about Duke too much because you’ll get sick of him. I’m sick of him (not really)—just his poop. That dog can crap. I [...]
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Duke: Shorn

Here’s the before picture. Duke’s hair hadn’t been cared for at the pound so he had to be shaved because it was matted and knotted. It couldn’t be saved, I was told. So now he’s naked.
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Can I ask a favour?

Hey, look another News post! Two in two weeks. How exciting. I would like to ask you a favour. One of the troubles with blogging is that, once and a while, I write something relatively brilliant (that might be too much hyperbole) and it only lasts for a couple days and then I [...]
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