By now I’m sure you have heard of the keto diet–or at least have heard the term “keto.” But what is it and, more importantly, does it live up to all the attention it is getting? I am not one for diets, as I prefer to eat a healthy and […]
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The Arctic deep freeze that has camped out over much of Canada over the past week is pretty standard for January, especially here in Northwestern Ontario. Enjoying outdoor activities when it’s blistering cold like it has been recently is tough. But if you dress properly, you still can have some […]
My hands are sore today (Monday) as I spent the weekend in my wood shop beginning a new project which is made almost entirely of red oak. Beginning Saturday, on the coldest day of the year, I began planing the four oak boards and two ash boards to thickness. My […]
I regularly bemoan January’s negative qualities and whine about January to anyone who will listen. How January pulls my shoulders to my ears, my chin to my chest, and hunches my shoulders as I hurry in with wood and hurry “Gracie” as we walk–not to mention how difficult the struggle […]
I will tell you right from the start that I am a Type 2 diabetic who is insulin dependent. It has forced me to pay greater attention to what I eat for almost 25 years. Sometimes I have been more successful than at other times, and exercise certainly plays a […]
Across Sunset Country, we are blessed with more water than most places in North America. Minnesota boasts about having 10,000 lakes. Well, Sunset Country has more than 75,000 bodies of water! And all of that water means we have many options for places to fish on lakes both small and […]
The big news of the weekend is the fact that Richard Norman “caught” the ace of spade on Friday night to win a total of $21,711.20. Though we felt a bit disappointed that Round # 5 of the weekly draw was over, we had a goal that we wanted to […]
I am willing to bet that self-doubt is a common human affliction–and is even more of a hidden struggle for those who display a quality I find most offensive: hubris. I was at an art gallery in Halifax last year to visit an exhibition of an artist friend of mine. […]
Each Wednesday I travel between Fort Frances and Rainy River delivering the Fort Frances Times to our news dealers. Often in travelling the route with my wife, new ideas are floated about the crops that are being grown, fields that are being cleared, and the quality of herds that exist […]
And here we go . . . back to normal! The first full week of work for 2019. It was a snowy start to the week but it sounds like Thunder Bay was hit harder. No complaints on my end although the snow we did get was heavy so be […]
I am going to throw some facts at you. The United States is home to 4.4 percent of the world’s 7.53 billion population, whereas Canada represents only .5 percent of the world’s population. Some 22 percent of the world’s prisoners are behind bars in the U.S. In 2015, the Washington […]
When I was a kid, I was taught that you were to never get caught dead with a perch in your bucket or on your stringer. I learned this from my Dad and his fishing buddies. Perch were for the seagulls and eagles in the open water, and for the […]
