From the Owen Sound Sun Times, through the magic of e-mail, posted on the Internet by Rob Gowan,…
Bits and Pieces
Old Farts
I know my editors are going to no doubt do a double take and reach for their blue-leaded editing…
Evolution
A lifetime is but a moment in the history of evolution but hindsight is foresight, and to integrate…
Kitchen gardens I
If your seed catalogue has not already arrived, now is the time that you get on the phone and ask…
Kitchen gardens II
The first veggies that I think most important in any garden, kitchen or otherwise are the hardy…
Kitchen gardens III
The first on my list of annual food plants to be tucked into the soils of your garden would be, by…
Kitchen gardens IV
Coming up soon to the third anniversary of the loss of my Little Lady, the love of my life, as most…
The barn dance
It was a brand new, Mennonite-constructed two storey barn with second floor dormers and an…
Amusing
Recently, the number of letters to the editor numbered greater than ever before. Is this an…
It’s here
Yes Sir. And all other characters before, aft’ and in between; spring is here. I have just…
Change is needed
As I sit here prettily poised with nimble fingers gently tapping my computer keyboard, the digital…
Mad house
My house is a mad house. There is no getting around the fact that it looks like someone has gone…
Planting time
Hey, hey folks; it’s planting time again, so get up and get at it. I jumped the gun a little…
Downsizing
If I were to tell you that I have not been busy lately it would be a gigantic fib, with the memory…
Renegade gardner
The little folding table that stands stock stiff beside my favourite perching place is stacked…