Ask any hunter that makes the yearly trip to hunt. The first training for a hunter is “if you are lost, fire three shots in the air.” If no response, then fire three more shots shortly after. This is a

Some 70 years ago after our family had built the new loose housing dairy barn on the hill behind the house, but kept the dry cows and heifers in the old red barn across the road (#8 highway) and the

Maybe this is what this old world needs right now, an extra hour for mankind to reflect on what’s going on. There seem to be too many people who think that they, their religion, their culture, their language are superior

Mom said ”Don’t pick the scab.” How many times did you get that warning the day after you scraped you knee or cut your shin bumping into the old hay mower? Mom usually put a little ointment on before covering

When I looked out the window this morning through the dense fog, I didn’t have to check The Weather Channel to get the forecast. Dad had taught me 70 years ago that if there is a heavy-dew or a dense

Many years ago, I received from an old doctor friend an article that was mentioned in a medical journal, something that had been added to the diet of cattle that, when they were slaughtered, would make the carcass weigh more.

Last week an old farmer friend of mine told me that he didn’t believe that sixty per cent of the food we produce, never gets eaten. This was a wake-up call to me because if a farmer doesn’t believe that

The average house selling price in 2023 is $750,000, according to what we are told by Stats-Can. A hundred years ago, in 1923, you could order a “house kit” with NO frills, out of the Sears catalogue for a thousand

Sixteen years ago, when our granddaughter was born with red hair, there was a little whispering in the background because both her parents and grandparents had dark hair. At this year’s Shawville Fair opening (as this year’s Shawville Fair Ambassador)

Every bit of communities in our country were built on people helping each other. Today, too many of us are dependent upon some other authority helping us out when we think that we are not as well looked after as