Ten years ago when I had cancer I would always go to the Cancer Centre in Hamilton by myself. I didn’t really feel that I needed a support person with me and there were always plenty of magazines to read anyway. But that’s just me. Most of the people there had someone with them and [...]
It’s December the 1st. While the onset of December is significant in itself, it also marks the day that 2 Toronto radio stations will commence playing only Christmas music and carols. The stations are 97.3 and 105.7. My choice is the former – 97.3. If memory serves me correctly, several years ago this station had [...]
As we break through the last of the snowstorms of March and into April, once again Canada’s name around the world is ‘Mudd’. The phrase, “his name is Mudd” refers to the doctor, Samuel Mudd who set the broken leg of John Wilkes Booth. A good man who, by one action, became an accomplice to one [...]
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Apparently this is our ninth snowstorm this winter. I believe that we have now surpassed the record snowfall for a winter in the late 1930s! I think it was 1937/38 and Toronto received about 81 1/2 inches of snow over the winter.Â
Above are a few photos that my nephew Adam took of Chaucer in the back [...]
Between the road work and construction in the urban sprawl of Ancaster, the wildlife is being forced into the populated neighborhoods and even into the houses.  In an effort to keep the raccoons out of the garbage, one of my friends’ husbands has found the perfect solution.  Since the raccoons will never come up to our intelligence level it seems [...]
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Kathryn