Childhood Memories – Inside Blumenort

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Oddbits Youtube Channel

December 19, 2025December 23, 2025 Jason Toews0Tagged audio drama, boy inside the man, cap guns, CBS Radio Mystery Theatre, Childhood Memories, crystal radio, family heritage, grandfather stories, Grunthal Manitoba, immigration stories, Mennonite history, model trains, Nostalgia, old time radio, Pavlodar Kazakhstan, preserving the past, Radio Shack memories, retro vibes, suspense stories, vintage toys

I created a YouTube channel about a year ago called Oddbits, its a collection of personal video’s & couple of playlists. We had a retro video game channel before that with a really good subscriber count but the impossible happened, (and I don’t even know why) but I lost a large part of my taste […]

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Small Town Living

October 30, 2025November 21, 2025 Jason Toews0Tagged Arcade Games, Blumenort, Blumenort Community Church, Burying Parents, Childhood Memories, Community, Dairy Capital, DOS, Emotional Walls, Family Loss, Floppy Disks, Gravel Pit, Greasy Spoon, Grief, Grunthal, Hometown Grill, Introversion, Looking Out For Each Other, Manitoba, Nostalgia, Optimism, Payloader, Rural Life, Small Town Living, Small Town Values

I grew up just outside Grunthal, so I’m used to living in (or near) a small town. As I get older, I don’t think I’d have it any other way. Small towns are beautiful – the image on this post is from the edge of town. I’m not a relationship person the way some people […]