For the pure joy of it
As people get older, the things that bring them joy seem to change— and it’s harder to determine what that is. For our grandson, Gauge, we know right away when he’s happy. We’re on a “big trip” at this time—several weeks vacation in the RV—and when Gauge approaches a beach he literally skips, all the […]
That ain’t hay
Yesterday’s idioms are in serious need of an update. In childhood days, often I heard my parents observe that the price of a cheap item was “just peanuts” or “chicken feed”. Today, it costs serious change to supply peanuts to the blue jays and chicken feed has become relatively expensive. My personal favourite, based on […]
Fresh vegetables
I went to Onestsa for dinner last week and enjoyed a lovely meal outside on the patio with some friends. The braised rabbit pasta was delicious, and I can’t get enough of the chocolate budino. It is my favourite dessert. My girlfriend ordered a side of rapini and I have to say that it was […]
Chance encounters
Sitting beside a woman named Irene, we struck up a conversation. She had been one of the first to purchase a condo at The Villas of Quinte Gardens some 16 years prior, moving from a big house in Prince Edward County. This was a similar scenario to what my mom did six years ago. We […]
Walter Renwick Knox
Margaret Haylock Capon Declared “the World’s Greatest Athlete” and also recognized as a notorious sports hustler, Walter Renwick Knox (1878- 1951) is buried in Wellington Cemetery. Born in Listowel. Ontario, he later moved to Orillia where he worked on his father’s farm. Small in stature, through manual labour he developed considerable strength and by 1896 […]
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 […]