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Putting the garden to bed is only one of the fall chores around here, but it is by far the most important.  This morning I harvested the last of the green beans and tomorrow I will likely take down the two monsters (see the previous BLOG for a photo of them!) and clean out those

The only problem with promising to blog every week, is the list of subjects to blog about.  I don't have one, I must admit. I suppose I should start with a recap of the summer so far - gardening (what's new?), and more gardening!  And of course, The Belly-Fat Buster Cookbook that I wrote about

Hard to believe it's been two years since my last blog post - new website, new lifestyle, new ways of doing things have all happened - some hard to take, some not so much. But here I am, still kicking!  Two new books since my last blog post - A Book of Shorts - which

July 21, 2018 Dateline: Orillia We attended the 41st Annual Scottish Festival. We have been attending this festival for about 5 or 6 years now. The colour party, or part of it, from the Bowmanville  Legion Branch 178 marches with the Pipes and Drums of Canada, a mosaic of pipers and drummers pulled together from

Believe it or not, it is almost apple season! In just a few weeks the old Heritage summer apples will be ready. These include: Red Astrachan Early Joe Early Harvest Lowland Raspberry Primate Summer Rose Sweet Bough and... Yellow Transparent Throughout July and August these varieties will ripen and will be ready for picking, each

Here we are halfway through June and I'm just now getting around to posting another message on this blog. It's odd, really.... at the beginning of the year my calendar was absolutely empty, but I have been so busy these past few months that my head is spinning! This time of year the garden takes

Lots to talk about today..... an update on the evening with Peter Klose to start with... After Peter's presentation we were able to gather other information.  What was listed as the Ivory Woollen Mill turns out to have been the Wilmot Tannery - a close look at an old map gave us the correct information. 

Every now and then I have a couple of hours where I can get back to things like THE BLOG! Last time I told you about an up-coming speaker at the Historical Society, Peter Klose, who would tell us about the abandon cemeteries in the area and about the mysterious grave of Lovel and Aurilla

April 3rd, 2018 So much for a weekly blog!  Just so much going on in this area, and of course, I have to be in the thick of it! Much of my time is taken up with the Newcastle Village and District Historical Society.  We have a very vibrant board the last couple of years,