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 […]
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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 […]
Across Northwestern Ontario, it remains unclear what’s going to happen to our moose population. The southern part of the region has seen a major reduction in moose numbers over the past couple of decades while populations in the north seem to be hanging in there. Because of this uncertainty about […]
“When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder’s in the shock/And you hear the kyouck and gobble of the struttin turkey-cock . . . O, it’s then’s the times a feller is a-feelin’ at his best.” As a girl in upstate New York, I experienced James Whitcomb Riley’s […]
After wrapping up most of the “on the water” stuff that I needed to do before the end of October, I got to spend a good chunk of time in my office over the past week. It wasn’t because I wanted to be sitting inside while we were having the […]
On Sunday, my neighbour, Anna Carlson, was outside installing her brilliant white mini-lights in her yard and along the roof edge. I have plans to do the same at my home this coming weekend. It will take a full day to get the thousands of white lights on all the […]
