We put up our Christmas tree this past Friday and Saturday. When our boys were young, we would go out on a tree-finding afternoon–often at my cousin’s farm on the River Road. We would march through the bush, usually with one of the boys being pulled on a sleigh while […]
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I attended my first Christmas party of the season last week! It was a great night but certainly made me think that the time is ticking away. I also attended a Christmas concert in the Barwick Heritage Church and it was incredibly beautiful. As soon as you walked in, you […]
The holiday season is here and you know what that means: lists. I have lots of lists this time of year. My Christmas baking list is a good one, though it doesn’t always reach fruition. It’s a bit like buying a gym pass in January. It seems like a superb […]
Hunting season started a couple of months ago but for hunters who have yet to fill their deer or moose tags, they are running out of time because the season will come to an end on Dec. 15. It has not been a very successful season for me. I have […]
One of the more interesting issues facing young people today, whether they live in a large city or smaller rural community, is the cost of housing. Everyone is looking for affordable housing, but that means different things to different people and has different pricing whether in an urban or rural […]
I am shocking my drilled well. It’s winter and the cap of the well was buried in snow but I found it and dug it out. The nuts for the well cap bolts were a little rusted (okay, a lot rusted) and took some cranking–and my arthritic thumbs shouted back. […]
While we haven’t experienced a lot of super cold weather so far, it has been cold in general for well over a month so all of the smaller bodies of water across Sunset Country are covered with ice. The minimal amount of snow also has helped the ice to form […]
I may come off as rough and tough and hard to bluff but the truth is I worry about a lot. As soon as I start feeding hay, I worry I won’t have enough. As soon as there is snow on the ground, I worry the cows will lay down […]
Busy family life is bringing about huge changes in the food industry. Where once sitting down with the family for an evening meal was commonplace, today mothers and fathers and grandparents are running in multiple directions taking children to hockey, basketball, dance, Guides, Cubs, and all types of youth activities […]
One month from now, we will just be working on the leftovers from our Christmas meal. So I’d better get organized–and fast. Every year my intentions are to be organized and to have things all dialed in. Alas, once again, I am a long way from that. I partially can […]
I was thinking about the concept of aging. It’s subtle; tends to sneak up on us and if it weren’t for mirrors, most of us would take little notice of our changing bodies. But some days, Mother Nature, with her wicked side, likes to shout it out. “You’re old,” she […]
At this point of the year, the start of our long winter, it’s hard to believe that warm weather ever is going to come around. But every spring, the snow melts and we get to experience the beautiful Sunset Country summers year after year. For the angler on your Christmas […]
