It used to be the return of the robin that signified spring to me, but now it’s the return of…
Bits and Pieces
Widowmakers
This past week, we had a strong wind that brought with it heavy thundershowers. I like…
Living and learning
What I knew about llamas when I entered the barn, after a three-day holiday away from the farm, I…
Leap year
“Thirty days have September, April, June and November; all the rest have 31 except February…
Bonnie and Bell
Never before have I been so pleased with any animal than I have been with Bonnie and Bell, our two…
Birthdays
Recently I had a birthday. It was brought to my attention by a Happy-Birthday phone call from a…
Good news
Not often do we get exceptionally good news from the bird world. But times are changing and…
Dawg
I don’t think there is a reader, within the hinterlands of the Wellington Advertiser’s…
Ted
The obituary read: HOPKINS, Irvine Edgar (Ted) – of Guelph, passed away peacefully, at Groves…
Hydrogen peroxide I
Although this article won’t appear in your paper until weeks down the road from the day of…
Memories
On the wings of an angel she left me, Death has a tendency to rip couples apart. Though we knew…
Butterfly time
My memory is quite often short-lived but right now, at this moment, I cannot recall a summer that…
GST and PST: Ouch
Over the course of any month, through the magic of e-mail, I get a great number of interesting and…
Renegade gardner
The little folding table that stands stock stiff beside my favourite perching place is stacked…
Summers gone
This past morning as I sipped my second cup of coffee while sitting on the front porch, watching…