This past few weeks have been exciting times for me. I have baby chicks, of several fancy show…
Bits and Pieces
Beta’s return
Not too many readers will have met Beta. Beta is a blue and gold macaw. I first met Beta well…
Chickery chick
“Chickery chick, cha-la, cha-la Check-a-la romey in a bananika Bollika, wollika, can’t…
May days
“The 24th of May is the Queen’s Birthday. If we don’t get a holiday, we’ll…
Gold laced cochins II
I have always been in the habit of collecting junk. Not junk, junk, that is obviously something…
Hoar frost
Hoar frost greeted me when I first looked out of my window this past morning. What a beautiful…
Chi-Chemaun
Blaaough-blugh-blugh! There just ain’t no way, any how, any place, that one can…
Creaking crickets
On a late August evening as I sat watching darkness fall while the sun slipped out of sight beyond…
Happy New Year
By the time you unfold the paper you’re now reading, 2013 will have come and gone and 2014…
Olive Cox
At 11am on April 7, 2014, at Speedside United Church, we gather to give thanks to God for the life…
Summer
Those crazy, hazy, lazy days of summer are slipping fast away. I don’t think there is anyone,…
Shopping
Shopping is something that I have grown to dislike. It once was a sort of social thing, as most…
SOAR
I’ll bet you dollars to doughnuts there are fewer than 10 per cent of readers, of the over…
Jenney and I
It turns out that Jenney, my scooter, and I are both addicted to bird watching. This past morning,…
Canada 2015
From a far-western reader come comments quite frequently, and with the federal election cresting…