“I laughed so hard my water broke . . . and I’m not even pregnant.” A story goes with those words—words I recently found inside a card at a card shop, but not just any card shop. Let me explain. Le Tablier Blanc was a card shop on College Street […]
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Emo once again hosted a wonderful weekend of “Holly Daze!” The parade was just awesome! Maddie and Marlee each brought a friend along and this year with our “dog” theme, we not only tossed out candy canes but milk bones for all the dogs watching the parade! Marlee’s friend, Ella, […]
Ice-fishing really has evolved over the past couple of decades when you consider that we’ve gone from sitting on a bucket using tree branches for strike indicators to having insulated portable shelters, power augers, and high-end graphite rods. The annual St. Paul Ice Show took place this past weekend and […]
The Ontario government must believe that we all have better bladders in winter than in the summer. I make this comment having travelled numerous times to Thunder Bay and noticed all the pull-off rest stops are now blocked and marked as closed. The gates are across the entrances and even […]
Do you know Yo-Yo Ma? He doesn’t call me at home to ask advice, nor do we meet for coffee to exchange stories, but I do consider Yo-Yo Ma my friend. I’m not sure he is aware of that fact but I don’t think he would mind me saying so. […]
There is that frozen moment in time between this second and the next when all possible scenarios play out as a movie in which I’m in a long, long hallway and being sucked toward an inevitable fate. . . . I was on a reconnaissance mission of sorts in my […]
Over the past weekend, I was invited out to Shoal Lake #39 to participate in its second-annual fisheries conference. Headed by band councillor Karen Kejick, there’s a push being made by Shoal Lake #39 to open the walleye fishery on Shoal Lake for both sport-fishing and commercial fishing activities to […]
I’m back in “Boot Camp,” where most of the food is green, protein is lean, and exercise takes a sweaty, heart-pumping front seat to an evening of good TV and a glass of wine (or two). Leave it to me to procrastinate until just four weeks before Christmas before putting […]
Everyone needs to get a ’flu shot. I know we can find many reasons to avoid the shot, such as “It takes too much time,” “I don’t like needles,” or “Often it really isn’t effective.” The excuses are easy to come by. However, let’s just debunk some of the excuses. […]
I find myself travelling again. I was aboard a flight last week—doing my impression of a sardine. The man sitting next to me was typing on his laptop and his elbows were spilling over into my seat, though he tried to contain them. His legs are twice as long as […]
Other than a three-month stint working for a contractor friend of mine just out of university, and a couple of years on the supply teacher list in Kenora, the only jobs I’ve ever had have been related to the fishing and outdoor industry in some manner. My first guide trip […]
Winter has arrived in parts of Rainy River District but we still have bare ground here in Emo. No complaints, though, as it will be great if our farm yards get some frost into them before the snow falls. I did have to spend most of Saturday getting all the […]
