I just had the great fortune of spending time with Aimee, daughter #1, and my wee grandson, Linden, who is three. The moments we spend with family are far too rare these days but when it happens, I ask the cells of my heart to take it all in; to […]
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I hope everyone is enjoying the heat wave we’ve been experiencing this past week. It won’t last (it never does so I get frustrated when people complain about it). Meanwhile, what a crazy busy week it was last week. Our soil and crop tour on Thursday was very successful and […]
After a day or two of relaxing early last week following a week of fishing hard on Rainy Lake during the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, it seemed like it would be just another stretch of normal summer days. I was enjoying the quiet time around home when I got […]
It was a busy weekend for bass anglers across Northwestern Ontario with the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship going on at Rainy Lake and the Bronzeback Classic taking place on Lake of the Woods in Kenora. I fished the Fort Frances event for the 18th time this year and we […]
Our bay on Turtle Island of Rainy Lake traditionally has had some thick aquatic plant growth. It harboured northern pike and bass, and was a great growing ground for the schools of young bass that were hatched on beds in early summer. Most of those weeds have disappeared this summer–much […]
Wow, here we are at the end of July and into our crop tour/open house week. It honestly makes me a little sad. Time goes so fast and summer is much too short. I hope some of you are thinking about attending our crop tour this Thursday (July 27) and/or […]
A cat is a home’s visible soul, said Jean Cocteau. If that is the case my home’s soul is visibly in need of vacuuming. I have moments when I am sweeping up pet hair from my floors and from my furniture for the fourth time on any given day, moments […]
Have you ever been asked the question: “Do you have a hobby?” It is an easy question as most of us probably do have such a hobby. I know that I do. So do my wife, my brother and my sister, and many of the employees here at the Times. […]
The 23rd-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship is set to kick off tomorrow morning (July 20) on Rainy Lake and almost 100 boats are expected to blast off from the Sorting Gap Marina. This is always a special week for me and one that I look forward to every year. […]
By now I doubt I have to write how I feel about this weather: rain nearly every day. And truthfully, when people say to me, “Oh, we need a good rain” or “Farmers should be happy with this,” I want to lose it! Making dry hay seems to be becoming […]
The lakes of Northwestern Ontario have the power to restore a soul. And if scientists should test that hypothesis, they would concur–and it would be documented and written up in medical journals and the like, and everyone would know what Fort Frances residents (and those in surrounding communities) have known […]
We don’t have a television at the cabin. The radio, which is tuned to CBC, seldom is on. Yes, we do have the Internet. iPads and cellphones are logged in, but the search of news seldom is happening. Instead, in our quiet way, time often is spent reading hardcover and […]
