The obituary read: HOPKINS, Irvine Edgar (Ted) – of Guelph, passed away peacefully, at Groves…
Bits and Pieces
Hydrogen peroxide I
Although this article won’t appear in your paper until weeks down the road from the day of…
Memories
On the wings of an angel she left me, Death has a tendency to rip couples apart. Though we knew…
Butterfly time
My memory is quite often short-lived but right now, at this moment, I cannot recall a summer that…
GST and PST: Ouch
Over the course of any month, through the magic of e-mail, I get a great number of interesting and…
Renegade gardner
The little folding table that stands stock stiff beside my favourite perching place is stacked…
Summers gone
This past morning as I sipped my second cup of coffee while sitting on the front porch, watching…
2011
The year 2011 is already here and we have now gestated half of the first month. Which leads to the…
Bragging
Well, folks, here I am, sooner than I thought, aching a lot and bragging a bit. It just so happens…
Barn owls
This past week has been a rather interesting one for me. Apart from the interrupting interaction of…
January 2012
Christmas comes and Christmas goes and the New Year is now upon us. It happens each and every year…
Easter Bunnies
You are not going to believe this, but the Easter Bunny came to our house Easter Sunday. It has…
Butterflies
Butterflies, and I’m not talking about butterflies in my stomach. The three score years and…
Hunting season
Bang, bang and sometimes bang again, at the crack of dawn, quite often is the first thing I hear up…
Spring
By the time this paper was slogged off at your mailbox, the calendar equinox dated as the first day…