I finally got around to cleaning up my living room coffee table the other day. It was piled high…
Bits and Pieces
Early spring
Spring came early within the four thick stone walls that are part and parcel of the urban …
Eat Local
Ever since The Advertiser started putting my column on the world wide web, I have received…
New book
Recently I’ve been holed up. It was not unlike working in a salt mine. The reason was not the…
Country music
I’m back to listening to country music again. In my younger days, eons and eons ago, it was…
Iggily Spiggily
You might experience a double take and wonder why I have picked such a fickle unfitting title…
Huskies
The sun shone brightly on the 12 acre hay field completely covered with well settled snow. It was a…
Good news
Not often do we get exceptionally good news from the bird world. But times are changing and…
Proud Canadian
Not often do I not find the time to do what I usually like to do, but this week happens to be one…
Early Easter facts
Just so you know why Easter was early this year. Easter is always the first Sunday after the first…
Tired of winter
This year, with I suppose good reason, I have become a little tired of winter. As I write this, a…
Purple martins
Wow. What an interest there is in bringing the purple martin back to Wellington County. Never…
They’re back
The phone rang quite early just the other morning. I’m an early morning riser, and I’d…
Mother’s Day
Seeing as I am suffering an attack of lazyitis, and a deadline is hovering over my head, I have…
Cock-a-doodle
Not often does a fellow columnist stir an interest in my literary line of thought. Not often do we…