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    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.

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Category Archives: Featured

My back up plan: Goat farm in India

This is a hilarious video that Connor posted. It’s a real video about the real change that a goat can bring to an impoverished family. For $20 you can buy someone a goat. But this got me thinking about a back up plan. Everyone needs a back up. What if some serious [...]
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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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The smell of marriage

I think there are a lot of smells you might associate with marriage and family. Cooking a turkey at Thanksgiving. Gingerbread cookies at Christmas. The smell of a new TV or car. And there are the close smells like the smell of hair or how Leah’s side of the bed smells [...]
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Couple dating

As many of our couple friends have left the city over the last year or so, Leah and I have been put in the position of either becoming suburban hermits or making some new couple friends. Frankly, suburban hermits isn’t as fun as you’d think. It’s actually kind of depressing. So we’ve [...]
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