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 […]
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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 […]
As any young person will tell you, Christmas takes a long time to arrive. Parents, on the other hand, will tell you that even with all the planning and work, Christmas arrives too quickly. Those preparations take a long time. For the past two weeks, I’ve been putting up our […]
Since I started writing this column way back in 2007, I’ve always put together a Christmas gift-buying guide for the outdoors person but I’ve usually waited until a week or two before Christmas to do it. For the last-minute buyer, this probably helped but most people likely already were finished […]
I guess my hopes of having a surprise “Indian summer” has past. And for some reason, this transition period to winter is difficult. It seems like you just cannot put on enough clothes (I’m certain I won’t feel this cold in the middle of January or February). The sun was […]
I’m sitting in the Pearson International Airport in Toronto. My flight was to depart at 10 a.m. bound for Halifax. Warnings popped up on the radio this morning advising travellers to get to the airport early as they had “system” crashes during the evening and there would be backlogs. They […]
