Daily Life in the Country
May 17, 2008: The Garden. Renewing The Human Spirit; A Place To Contemplate Mother NatureComments: 0 | Categories: Daily Life in the Country , Gardening , Huron County
perhaps we ought to pause and give thanks for the gifts of soil, rain and sun and remember to be humble before Mother Nature’s goodness.
May 16, 2008: Spring in Huron County
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Maybe my memory of springtime in Ontario is wrong, distorted by 7 years in France. In my mind spring is 2 weeks of mud between winter and summer. Or maybe this is an unusual spring. It's perfect, all that spring...
May 16, 2008: The Beer Store
Comments: 1 | Categories: Daily Life in the Country , Shopping
Maybe a lawn tractor is an agricultural vehicle.
May 5, 2008: HICK Tech 2008 in Owen Sound
Comments: 0 | Categories: Daily Life in the Country , Grey County , Internet , Web Design
I'm not really a conference person so for me to recommend a conference is a really big deal. Last week I was at the HICK Tech conference in Owen Sound. It was terrific. I'm definitely planning to go in 2009....
April 23, 2008: Spring in Dungannon - Huron County
Comments: 0 | Categories: Daily Life in the Country , Gardening , Huron County
Spring always means work in the garden. Cleaning up the winter detritus, turning beds to get ready to plant, planting seeds if you're brave and didn't get around to starting them inside, and being rewarded by spring flowers. It helps...
April 17, 2008: It's Spring - I'm sure it's spring
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I really shouldn't complain about winter, I missed two months of it, but I'm so happy to see spring. To be able to go outside and not look like the Michelin man, to be able to sit in the sun...
March 10, 2008: Bruce County, The International Plowing Match, and The Girl From Holyrood
Comments: 2 | Categories: Bruce County , Daily Life in the Country , Intgernational Plowing Match , Towns and Villages in Ontario
This is going to be a very big year for Bruce County. There's the Lucknow Reunion, the Southampton and Kincardine anniversaries and then there's the big one!
January 31, 2008: Lucknow Library Renovation to start in March
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The Lucknow Public Library has received a grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation for renovations. Construction will start in March 2008. from the Lucknow Sentinel: The Ontario Trillium Foundation was pleased to award the library a $45,000 grant to make...
January 6, 2008: Tobagganing in Grey County
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Winter fun in Priceville I'll probably regret posting this but .... Our house is across the street from the best tobogganing ever. There's a berm between us and highway # 4 and it's the absolute perfect tobogganing hill. Yes, it...
December 22, 2007: A Child's Christmas In Huron County
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I remember that Christmas, because a few months earlier, my uncle Robert had left for his last tour of duty in World War Two, never to return.
December 20, 2007: Making a Fire in a Wood Stove
Comments: 0 | Categories: Daily Life in the Country , Grey County , Huron County , The challenges of semi-rural Life
Learning how to make a fire and keep it burning in a wood stove You'd think that making a fire would be making a fire and that it wouldn't matter whether it was in a fireplace or in a wood...
December 6, 2007: The Beauty of Winter
Comments: 0 | Categories: Daily Life in the Country , Huron County
Snow in the country is more beautiful than snow in the city Of course it's still snow, and still cold, and you have to bundle up a lot more than in Toronto but the expanses of pristine snow make up...
December 4, 2007: Snow in Huron County
Comments: 1 | Categories: Daily Life in the Country , Huron County
More winter - just in case you need to be reminded It doesn't matter where you are in Ontario right now, you're probably doing a lot of snow shoveling. The biggest challenge is clearing the driveway. In the country we...
December 4, 2007: Winter in Priceville
Comments: 0 | Categories: Daily Life in the Country , Grey County , Towns and Villages in Ontario
It's winter with a vengeance in Grey County - and in the rest of Ontario Winter arrived with little warning and a lot of snow this weekend. It took me 5 hours to get from Toronto to Priceville. It usually...
November 20, 2007: Americans Celebrate Thanksgiving Canadians Prepare For Christmas
Comments: 0 | Categories: Bruce County , Daily Life in the Country , Grey County , Huron County
Thanksgiving time is a time to remind ourselves of just how good we have it.
November 5, 2007: My Huron County Upbringing Makes Me Sad For My Country
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Remembrance Day Is Coming And This Week I Remember What They Fought For They fought for our Freedom. For decency and fairness and goodness. And in the years and decades following their sacrifice Canada has grown ever more tolerant; gradually,...
October 31, 2007: Electricity And Life In Huron, Bruce And Grey Counties
Comments: 0 | Categories: Bruce County , Daily Life in the Country , Grey County , Huron County
"Stray Voltage" is an Important Issue Affecting Farmers in Huron, Bruce, Grey and other counties in southwestern Ontario. This is something that Living in the Country will be following closely over the next several months. We are establishing a "stray...
October 21, 2007: Butter Tarts - a Recipe
Comments: 1 | Categories: Daily Life in the Country
I made butter tarts! I had to. I couldn't stop thinking about them. The pastry is nothing to celebrate, it's ready-made, but the filling is perfect. Still a little bit runny, a little crunch on the top, so sweet they...
October 20, 2007: Monarch Butterflies in Huron County
Comments: 1 | Categories: Daily Life in the Country , Huron County
When you live in the country nature comes to you. Jim's post about the migrating blackbirds reminded me about the monarch butterflies. In September thousands of them arrived just ahead of a big storm. They swirled and swooped like an...
October 19, 2007: The Last of Huron County's Migrants
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Blackbirds Gather to Prepare to Fly Out. It was an amazing sight. Right there in my back yard! My Pics of the day. The birds are a bit hard to see...you have to look closely or click the pic. It...
October 11, 2007: High Speed Internet Access in Rural Grey County
Comments: 0 | Categories: Daily Life in the Country , Grey County , The challenges of semi-rural Life , Things We Miss About the City
I didn't know that the internet could go that slowly!!! I rely on the internet to earn a living. In Priceville there is no high speed internet access available. In fact, I think that the dial-up access is possibly the...
October 10, 2007: Life in a Small Town
Comments: 0 | Categories: Daily Life in the Country , Grey County
If you're wondering what it would be like to live in a small town read Carmi Levy's post on Written Inc, "Life in a Northern Town". and read the comments. In 2002 I moved from Toronto to a tiny village...
October 9, 2007: Meaford - 100-Mile Market
Comments: 1 | Categories: Daily Life in the Country , Grey County , Shopping
100-mile diet encourages 100-mile market in Meaford An interesting story in the Star about the new 100-mile market in Meaford. Everything available at the market is produced within 100 miles of Meaford. It's open all year on Thursday, Friday, and...
October 2, 2007: Care and Respite in Huron County
Comments: 0 | Categories: Daily Life in the Country , Grey County
Looking After Each Other Country people are often very independent and stubborn and don't like to admit they might need some help. It used to be that our family, friends and neighbours kept an eye out for us...but that's changing....
September 30, 2007: Country Life
Comments: 2 | Categories: Bruce County , Daily Life in the Country , Grey County , Huron County , The challenges of semi-rural Life
Country Life is not all Peaches and Cream This summer, as I drove around Grey, Bruce, and Huron County one of the things that struck me was the lack of abject poverty. In fact, the lack of anything that looked...
September 26, 2007: Puffballs and Country Delights
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Living in the country and being retired means that one has the time to take nice leisurely walks. My home is surrounded by fields...and my neighbours grow things like corn and soybeans, wheat and barley. From time to time there's...
September 24, 2007: Ontario election - October 10
Comments: 0 | Categories: Daily Life in the Country , Huron County , Ontario Politics
This morning, I'm setting off across country for the town of Kincardine in Bruce County , about 50 kilometers north of here.It's sunny and the forecast is for a high of 27 degrees celsius...so it promises to be a good...
September 12, 2007: No Electricity? Cook supper on the Woodstove
Comments: 0 | Categories: Daily Life in the Country , The challenges of semi-rural Life
It could be my imagination but it seems to me that the electricity goes off more often in the country and that it stays off for longer than in the city. It makes sense that it would stay off longer....
September 4, 2007: Living in the Country
Comments: 0 | Categories: Bruce County , Daily Life in the Country , Grey County , Huron County
I suppose we could have called this blog “Living in the Country in Southwestern Ontario near the Bruce Peninsula and Lake Huron, in Grey County and Huron County and Bruce County, about 2 ½ hours from Toronto” but by the...
