Snuggly Blankets and January Fun
Ah January! I remember being a kid on Sunset Trail waking up to an ice-covered world. Overnight the fluffy snow in our yard, and the park next to our house, became a great big skating rink. It never occurred to me an ice storm would be a nightmare for the adults in my life; mostly […]
The great Trenton butter theft
The Quinte area is becoming a breeding ground for high stakes theft. The booty? Not diamonds. Not art. Not gold bullion. Instead, we’re talking about butter. And a large quantity of it. Some 20,000 kilos of the stuff—worth about $200,000—have gone missing. Quinte West OPP report that on the evening of Christmas Day, two trucks […]
Just the way I am
Over the years, I have known oodles of people who start their New Year a bit hungover and a with a very long list of resolutions. Most definitely, I was one of those people, back in the day. It was genetic. I came from a long line of hungover people who were resolution list makers. […]
Bad Pandemic Poetry
At this point in the pandemic, as we hunker down for more isolation at home, the mind gets desperate for entertainment: there are only so many reruns of Seinfeld that you can sit through. So my solution is to make up poetry about the pandemic. But not just any poetry; no, this calls for bad […]
Ringing out the old year
I find it hard to believe this will be my last column for 2021! In spite of all the drudgery of Pandemic Life, 2021 has flown by. My mom used to say time will fly when I got older. Well, I’m a whole lot older and she was right, time flies. Now it’s time to […]
A Thrilling Week
I knew last week was going to be a tough one when I was shorted on my box of Timbiebs at Tim Hortons in Bancroft. I discovered only when I was half an hour out of town that my box of 10 only contained eight of the tasty treats. So I made up for it […]
Write it Right
Well, wasn’t that a night! As I write this on Sunday morning, many County folks are still sitting in the dark. Just when I was thinking things couldn’t possibly be any worse, or more exciting, we were hit with an epic wind storm. Every once in a while, during the last two years, I’ve wondered […]
Handmade Holidays
Like a lot of you, I really and truly thought the COVID- 19 pandemic would be over and done now. Seriously, I kinda snorted when we were told it would be around until May or June of 2020, then it would vanish. I couldn’t believe it would last “that long” all the way to May […]
Manners 101
I had confidently predicted that the COVID-19 pandemic would be over by January 31, 2022. That’s because my wife and I bought tickets this past summer to see Emmylou Harris at the refurbished Massey Hall in Toronto on that date. Surely the gods of disease would arrange it so that we were clear of any […]
Be the Santa You Know You Are
December. It’s Wednesday. It’s cold outside. The snow, comes and goes. The local parades are sorrily missed by our family (and yours too, I’m sure) but the lists are being made and people are shopping or crafting and baking or shopping a bit more. The Sally Ann bells are ringing, here and there, and the […]