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 […]
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 […]