I was reading over Christmas columns I’ve written over the years. It’s no surprise that the message is sometimes similar, if not often similar, maybe even always. I can’t help myself. I overheard someone in the grocery store the other day asking a child what she wanted for Christmas. We […]
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The Emo Knox United Church with the generous support of New Gold is providing Turkey Dinners with all the trimmings. This takes place December 23 between 12:30 and 1 p.m. Take outs and delivery are available from Emo Knox Church at 3 Roy Street. If you would like a Christmas […]
In what seems like a couple of hundred sports years ago, Pete Rose announced he loved baseball so much he’d play for nothing. A short time later, he held out for $200,000 a season. And now Shohei Ohtani is going to be paid what the late Jimmy Buffett would’ve called […]
While the mild fall has been welcomed by most of us, it’s nice to see some colder weather creeping in this week, if for nothing more than to freeze everything up so we can enjoy some of our usual winter activities. For ice anglers, we’re getting more options each week […]
I was off to Dryden on Saturday to spend the night celebrating Linda Zimmerman’s surprise 40th birthday! Of course, after a lot of good weather it changed on us, and some had troubles getting to Dryden. For those who made it, a great time was had! We celebrated in the […]
I wake up in darkness. For the third consecutive day the sky is clouded over and in late afternoon, we all will return to darkness. December leading to the winter solstice is a dismal time of year. After the invasion by Hamas and the slaughter of 1400 Jewish children, women […]
Seems it happens every year. This year I decided to solve the issue. I’ve been putting it off for too long but moving into a Senior’s apartment necessitated the move… and it was all the fault of the Pearl of the Orient, my late wife, Norma. I spent a week […]
I partook (an entry on my list of favourite whimsical words) in a community turkey dinner last Sunday, not far from my home. The dinner event has become a holiday tradition for the “Forties” community that is well-supported by local residents and beyond. This small community pulls together, most of […]
Tiger Woods has been a “distant replay” for quite a while now and that’s not really expected to change. He turns 48 this month. To escape being the Distant Replay he now is on these pages, Tiger would have to win his 16th major. His 15th was almost five years […]
In last week’s column I wrote about the first week of the fishing adventure that Bryan Gustafson and I took over to Australia to compete some barramundi tournaments. Barramundi are one of Australia’s most popular fish species and the ABT tournament series were having a run of four events over […]
The Christmas cactus makes a great holiday plant gift and are starting to see it available at local nurseries and floral shops. The Schlumbergera spp. family is not a desert cactus but a species that is found attached to trees in moist woodlands and jungles. The typical forest cacti have […]
Well, I am close to finishing my outside light display! I have something in mind that I would like to make for the barn, but it might be an all-winter project. I didn’t work on it full time this weekend as I wanted to check out Emo Holly Days and […]
