I Have Fat
In the name of hitting “my” weight goals, I have done my whole self a great disservice. First of all, I think weight goals are absolutely baloney, as is the BMI chart. I have, like a lot of all y’all, invited all of the fad diets and programmes into my life. In the earliest days […]
This time in wine
I went to my friend Debbie Phillips for dinner. We hadn’t seen each other in over 20 years; she and her husband had moved out of the city and so we got together last week. She made BBQ chicken and some salads. Now, I have never been a fan of macaroni salad; to be fair […]
Just ask Terry
There’s a lot of wildlife where I live in the County. Green Point has apparently been known for water snakes over the years. When we first moved here almost 40 years ago there were large black ones with the circumference of a small child’s wrist. They’d sun themselves on the flat rocks at the shoreline […]
Kaná:ta
Canada Day! In twenty years of writing for The Times, writing about Canada Day has always been difficult for me. The County always puts on a great show of Canada Day Love. For about a decade, LOML and his ukulele-playing friends have been invited to be a musical part of the parade in Wellington. Wellington […]
Restaurant favourites
Whenever we go to a restaurant that has artichoke and spinach dip on the menu, my son will always order it. He loves it, and it is a great sharing appetizer. So when he wanted to buy a frozen product to have at a home, I told him I would show him how to make […]
Another door opens
When I received the email from Editor Tim Meeks that the County Weekly News newspaper (and other local weeklies) would no longer be published and that my County Seniors column was therefore no longer needed, I was devastated. I felt even worse later on when I learned that Postmedia was laying off both full-time and […]
Us and them
Well, Sunday was officially the first day of summer! Ain’t it a treat? Right now it’s not too hot and it’s not too cold. Just about as lovely as it could be out there. LOML and I decided to head over to the Picton Market and see “what’s what”. He and I aren’t really social […]
In my garden this week
French breakfast radishes all in a row. My husband says they are a pleasure to grow because they come up so fast it is instant gratification. I thinly sliced some radishes and ate them on fresh buttered baguette. A simple but delicious snack. Since this is the time of year when asparagus and strawberries are […]
Spring berries
I picked up my first strawberries last week at Van Grootheest farm stand. Thanks for the heads up Reg. They were delicious, of course. So sweet and yummy. I don’t know why I expect the first strawberries to be tart and not quite ripe. I didn’t expect any strawberries to be ready so soon, especially […]
Wineries
Imagine for a moment that provincial governments controlled grocery stores and decided to stock mostly imported beef because it generated higher margins than beef raised by Canadian ranchers. Most Canadians would probably be outraged. After all, we grow cattle here. We have farmers, processors, distributors, and rural communities that depend on that industry. While consumers […]