Sunday teased us that spring actually might be happening. The rain gutters melted out. The downspouts were shooting water across my sidewalks into the banks of snow that were ready to soak up all that moisture. I suspect that the water eventually worked its way across the yard and onto […]
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We had a pretty good turnout at our abattoir general meeting last week. Still, it does make me wonder about some of the producers that didn’t bother to come. Do they not care? Not see the value? Would they not like input? What will they say if we close? We […]
Every day I have choice to make. Happy. Not happy. The happiness balance is tedious, constant work. Sometimes I do it well; sometimes I do appallingly. Today was one of those “not-do-it-so-well” days. My Monday got turned around like the weather and I found myself in the linger of thoughts […]
Heading into the third FLW Tour stop of the season this past weekend at the Sam Rayburn Reservoir in Texas, I have to admit I was feeling a little bit of pressure to put up a good finish. My results in the first two events were not good—finishing in the […]
Did you know you can’t believe everything you read online? If so, then at least you are one step ahead of Stephen Harper’s Conservative government. We learned last week that to save a few bucks, the Harper government has been using the help wanted ads on www.kijiji.ca to build our […]
Unlike my good friend, Nancy, I never had a “hankering” for travel. Nancy has floated down the Amazon, toured the pyramids, and visited friends in Japan. She creates fascinating scrapbooks of her journeys, which she then shares with her friends. As for me, I’ve always preferred staying at home when […]
Sheila was in a blue funk. Her office recently had the lighting updated—the chief result being her radio no longer could pull in our local hog-rastlin’ music station. What to do? “Why don’t you take your satellite radio into work? You know I never listen to it at home during […]
Growing up in Kenora, one place that I always got really excited to visit when I was a kid was the Lake of the Woods Museum, located at the south end of Main Street. When I was in school, I always liked history class, especially Canadian history and how people […]
The resignations of two prominent Conservative politicians last week—Alberta Premier Alison Redford and federal Finance minister Jim Flaherty—were long overdue as the two have left a slew of economic problems for Canadians in their wake. How Alison Redford and her government stayed in power for so long is really a […]
A 100-year-old does yoga daily. An 85-year-old runs two miles a day. A 70-year-old writes weekly news notes for her local paper. A 93-year-old climbs Mount Fuji. An 85-year-old plays the piano at area nursing homes. A 65-year-old starts a new business. These are the new elderly. Forget the stereotypes […]
I’m starting to wonder if I will ever stop writing about this crazy long winter! We had more than a foot of snow here Friday and then it was minus-33 C when I left the house Sunday morning. Wow—and it’s the end of March! Of course, I was lucky to […]
We must be gearing up for a provincial election. Even with the chills of winter still storming around us, Premier Kathleen Wynne appears to have rallied her troops this past weekend to be ready to pound on doors and wear out shoe leather on the sidewalks. She pummelled the Harper […]
