The Emo Agricultural Research Station is officially open for the 2012 season. I’ve been working on files, trial plans, and organizing, with seed to be arriving shortly. Often when I get back to work at EARS, there is still snow on the ground. So I feel like I am behind […]
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I love this time of year. The weather keeps getting better, the days are getting longer, and with open water, we have plenty to look forward to. Since ice fishing wrapped up a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been spending some time in the woods scouting around some of my […]
Has it really only been five months since that insane World Series which the St. Louis Cardinals won over the Texas Rangers in seven games? Other than a two-game sojourn in Tokyo last week between the Oakland A’s and Seattle Mariners that marked the official start of the season, the […]
The announcement that the province was closing the tourism information centres in Fort Frances, Rainy River, and Kenora caught everyone by surprise. In the past 12 months, the province had expanded its budget to promote fishing and hunting in the northwest. The money was targeted at major markets throughout the […]
The frogs and robins are back. I’m not suggesting the frogs hopped their way to Florida for the winter, but suffice to say they’ve wakened and crawled out of their muddy beds. The robins, meanwhile, bounce around on my lawn and I apologize to them for the cold weather we […]
It’s Monday morning and I have a hell of a lot to write about; and a whole lot of it that I really don’t want to write about, some of it that I do, and some of it that I am compelled to write about. So in lies my dilemma. […]
It seemed that March wanted to go out like a lion with that miserable dump of snow we saw at the end of last week. The barnyard had been decent up until that point but now it’s a sloppy mess. For me it’s the worst time of the year to […]
After the summer workouts, the training camps, the exhibition contests, the regular-season affairs, and the playoff rounds, here we are. This Sunday night in Spooner, the SIJHL season will begin its final chapter as the best-of-seven series to determine this year’s Bill Salonen Cup champ gets underway between the Wisconsin […]
After many months of hard water on our lakes and rivers, things finally are starting to bust loose—and slowly but surely, we’ll all be in boats sooner than later. By the looks of things, we are going to break all kinds of records on ice-out dates for the big lakes […]
Another summer-like week here in Rainy River District! I had a big list of inside jobs (i.e., income tax) but I found myself not so interested in being inside. So “Roxee” and I pretty much walked around all our fences and replaced staples and wires as needed. I was hoping […]
By Melanie Mathieson
The Gardening Guru
The Gardening Guru
With the unusual warm weather, all of the snow gone, and the lake ice starting to break up, many people are itching to get outside and start gardening. I also share the enthusiasm for the extraordinary weather, but you have to be careful not to get ahead of yourself with […]
The writing tide has gone out and it’s not flowing back in a timely fashion in my neck of the woods this week. Today my “write” mind is as the rusty burn barrel that’s sitting upside down on the south side of the old red barn in my farmyard. There’s […]
