Today (Dec. 2) marks two months since my sailboat was pulled off the lake for the winter. It seems like a lifetime ago that I was on the water with that little blue-hulled beauty, yet memories of sailing her across the bay to meet up with friends at a favourite […]
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I’ve started my annual Christmas lights display. My new shed took a fair bit of time to get set up for lights but it turned out quite nicely. I’ll now work away for most of this week before I complete the “glow!” I couldn’t believe that earlier this week, while […]
Looks can be deceiving when you peek outside these days across Sunset Country. Unusually mild weather just keeps hanging around and it looks more like late March out there than December. It’s certainly pleasant, but it’s not convenient for those of us who enjoy outdoor activities at this time of […]
Now that Thanksgiving is past, it’s time to think about Christmas–happy, fun-filled, surprise-packed Christmas. And, sometimes later in life, nostalgic Christmas. Nostalgia: something from the past and wishing that you could experience it again. Yes, that’s nostalgia. But for children, Christmas always should be magic–part of the magic of childhood. […]
Well, it looks as though winter has arrived. And as much as I enjoyed the milder weather, it certainly would have been nice if we had some cooler temperatures before the snow arrived. It has created quite a mess! It really fools you, as well—thinking you can cruise along walking […]
While Canada has backtracked somewhat on the time frame, some 25,000 immigrants will win the lottery and become permanent residents of Canada by the end of February, including 10,000 by the original target date of Dec. 31. The refugees that Canada is choosing to welcome are women, children, and families. […]
It’s so difficult sometimes to stay in the present. The worries of the future and the sadness of the past always are fighting for our attention. Especially, the worries of the future! I still remember in the late 1950s when my father had a surprise heart attack. Of course, I […]
I fear I feel the sense of hopeless lurking nearby. I feel it every now and then, scratching at the screens; trying to pick the lock. But I hold it back, shout obscenities at its retreat, while I cling to the vision of people welcoming others, putting arms out and […]
Over the past few months, there’s been quite a bit of chatter through various forms of media that the spring bear hunting season is coming back in Ontario. Until this week, my perception was that a new spring season was coming back in 2016—until I caught wind of some heavy […]
As I walked through my front door Friday afternoon, my wife asked me if I was aware of what was unfolding in Paris. Earlier in the day, I had stopped following the news feed and was not aware of the attacks in the “City of Lights.” Afterwards, we discovered eight […]
If you want your problems to feel small and insignificant, walk outside on a dark, moonless night and become a star-gazer. Find Casseopia in her stretched out ‘W’ and be reminded of her wicked tale—of a mother’s love gone wrong, a mother banned to the night’s sky for all eternity […]
We are very pleased that all the plowing has been completed at the Emo Agricultural Research Station (EARS)! I’ve also finished all the data for the cereal trials but haven’t started on the forages yet. I have two project reports that I’m working on currently, so my time is pretty […]
