I don’t know what to write about today. Okay, yes, maybe I do, although I’m not really sure which emotion to feed. Okay, yes, I do. I need to feed them both. I am content and melancholy, happy and yet somewhat sorrow-filled, mostly healed and yet reminded in a New […]
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I finally started to feel a bit better on Monday. I vacuumed and even though I feel like I ran a marathon, I got rid of a lot of dog hair. I’m getting further behind that I planned for 2016 but I’m not going to complain because at least my […]
After a mild start to the winter, we finally got a taste of what some real Canadian winter weather feels like over the past week or so. When wind chills dip the temperature below minus-30 C, outdoor activities really star to lose their fun. We have issues with everything freezing, […]
When I was nine or 10, our Canadian dollar was worth $1.02 compared to the U.S. dollar. Those two pennies were like gold when you exchanged your dollar into U.S. currency. During the 1962 election between Progressive Conservative John Diefenbaker and Liberal Lester Pearson, the dollar came under pressure and […]
The last three months before calving is a critical time for cows and heifers. Nutrition needs are high with a rapidly-growing calf, milk production coming on stream, and cold weather to overcome. Energy, protein, vitamins, and minerals are important. Cows on an adequate diet will produce a vigorous calf with […]
Somehow, I’m not sure whether I have a serious “sleep” problem or if I only have a long-time bad habit. Either way, I wake up wide-awake between 1:30 and 3:30 a.m. every day. And when I wake up, there’s no going back to sleep. But I really don’t mind. I […]
Growing up in New York state, I saw lots of interesting sights: Niagara Falls, Watkins Glen, the 1,000 Islands in the St. Lawrence River, the Adirondacks, and New York City. But one thing I missed seeing was the Chautauqua Institution. Although my daughter has spent summers at Chautauqua for years, […]
I haven’t worn long underwear on a regular basis in almost 50 years. Growing up and playing outside, we didn’t have today’s super-insulated parkas and snow pants. What we had were lined jeans, long underwear, and felt boots that were encased in rubber boots. We all had toques that kept […]
It was my life ambition to be a mermaid. I know what you’re going to ask: how did that turn out? Not well, I must confess. I am not the greatest swimmer and my hair is not long enough to do the mermaid thing properly. Oh, and my voice doesn’t […]
Birth date verification, or age verification of beef cattle–what is it? Age verification is the association of animal birth date data with an Animal Identification Number (single tag or tag group). There is an ever-increasing demand for accurate age determination in Canadian cattle. As such, there is a system in […]
The cold weather that’s been around for the past few days, uncomfortable as it is, has done wonders to fix the ice conditions on lakes across Sunset Country. After a mild December, most of the lakes across the region had very poor ice conditions heading into the new year. Heavy […]
As we all expected, the cold weather finally has found us—though it sounds like we still are better off than many other places, with heavy wind gusts hitting much of southern Ontario again. Northern Ontario did make the news with the failure of the bridge over the Nipigon River. I […]
