When my world gets heavy, when I struggle to make sense of things, when it feels as though the Earth has lost its orbit, I try to find something I can control in a world out of control, something that makes me happy, makes me feel safe. When I was […]
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Survived the 2nd or was it the 3rd Day in Beijing. The food and the company remained great, but the volume of things to absorb was enough to overwhelm the senses. Simply too much to see and do. The weather was cooler and a bit overcast. It threatened to rain […]
I hope that everyone had a great Easter, despite the different times. I know many of you were missing your family and friends. If you are all safe and healthy those are the most important things. We must be thankful that most of us live where we can get outside […]
Earth Week begins and runs for a full seven days. Throughout the world “Earth Day” which has been celebrated for the past 49 years, has gone digital for the first time. Visit www.earthday.org for a whole world of digital events to join in on. Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish environmentalist […]
Robin McCormick
Devlin correspondent
Devlin correspondent
The Alberton, Chappell, Emo And LaVallee Fire Departments are offering a service to brighten the day of a child’s birthday. All four departments are offering an “outside the box” idea for a child’s party. The Departments hate to see kids missing their birthday parties with family and friends during these […]
So how is that social isolation going with all? I sure miss the Debating Table at the Bakery in Rainy River but still make it in once a week to pick up supplies and a couple of fritters. Added a package of Cinnamon Buns to the larder the other day […]
With the popularity of social media these days, I get questions from people quite often with all kinds of fishing related questions. Some of the most common questions I get from people are “do you eat fish” and “how do you like to cook your fish?” Over the years, while […]
Well I am officially finished calving! It ended with a boom; one of my cows gave me a set of twins. The first one was a bouncing baby bull and the second one was backwards, so a quick pull brought a little heifer safely into this world. The little bull […]
When starting seeds indoors, you must be concerned with a disease called damping-off as it can quickly turn your young seedlings into a complete crop failure almost overnight, setting your gardening schedule back by weeks. Damping-off can be caused by any one of the many types of soil fungus. Pre-emergence […]
I am trying to figure out what my new normal routine is. Retirement came and I very much continued my old schedule dropping into the newspaper almost daily. I would write this column over the weekend and then put it into the que Monday sometime from the desk that was […]
One Well we have completed our first day of touring and our second night of trying to sleep. The jet lag is subsiding and we can just about think clearly now. We arrived in Beijing in mid-afternoon Sunday the 13 after a long but decent flight on Air Canada and […]
I heard a retort several weeks ago, probably months ago now, during an argument, or a vigorous discussion, which I couldn’t help but overhear as I unloaded my groceries into the back of my car. “Oh, grow up,” one contender spat at the other, and it got me thinking about […]
