All posts by George Walters

George Walters is a Canadian columnist and author with more than forty years of writing experience. For over twenty years he has written a weekly column for Postmedia Network — Canada's largest newspaper chain — never missing a single week, publishing fifty-two stories a year. Combined with his work in Reader's Digest Community Voices, World News, Country Living, The Country Register, and farm and rural lifestyle magazines across Canada, he has published well over two thousand stories drawn from everyday life. He writes about farm work, fishing, old trucks, and the kind of people you only find in small towns — but just as likely he'll hand a voice to a weathered telephone pole, or turn his eye on something happening in the world today and tell you exactly what he thinks about it. No subject is off limits. If there's a story in it, George will find it. He has been called a philosopher of everyday life, a description that came up more than once during his television appearances over the years — and it's not hard to see why. His writing has a way of making the ordinary feel worth sitting with. He is the author of eleven books, including yearly short story collections and the Clay Moretti Files mystery series. Clay is a fifty-year-old private investigator who drives a 1967 Ford Galaxie, smokes cigars, and operates by a code the modern world gave up on a long time ago. The cases are present day. The man handling them is not. All titles are available in paperback and eBook on Amazon. Together, George and his wife Ruth have also created Elmer Finds His Way, the first in what he hopes will be a long series of children's books. Ruth did all the illustrations, as she has for every one of George's books — and beyond that she designed and painted the covers as well. Her work is woven into every page of everything he has published. A few words from readers: "I pulled up a kitchen chair and read your story three times." "You have a way of making a person homesick for a place they haven't been to." "Thank you for writing things that make old people and kids feel the same way at the same time." All my titles are available in paperback and eBook on Amazon.ca here.

The Best Way To Make Banana Bread

Hi folks, my lovely wife made me some Banana Bread today. You know, a lot of people today are making Banana Bread the wrong way. For years now, these so-called experts are saying that you can use the Old Black Bananas to make the bread. Makes me laugh a bit, as years ago the lady that raised me used to say. “When Bananas are Black, they are Rotten.” And she would throw them out for the chickens to eat. Truth be told, she was right. The best bananas to use are when they are just starting to turn yellow, with a touch of green still in them. Also, they are much healthier for you, and a lot easier on the stomach. Give it a try sometime, you will be glad you did. Here is a picture of a loaf my wife made for me this morning. GW

Banana Bread

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What’s Happening In Port Loring, Ontario, Canada on Oct12/2022

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Red Pepper Jelly, Homemade From Our Peppers

Good Morning!

Starting things off it is a rainy, windy cool morning here in Port Loring. Outside doesn’t look inviting one bit. But it is that time of year when you can expect just about anything. We could see some strong wind gusts of 70 to 90 km/h throughout the day, accompanied by some thunder and lightning. So all in all not that nice of a day. Highway 522 is or has been busy with lots of hunters moving into our area. Not so good news for the hunters, but good news for the critters. It seems nature has her ways of looking after their own occasionally.

On another note, my lovely wife and I did take a trip yesterday, taking in the leaves. I have to tell you they were sure nice. Couldn’t have picked a better day. Lots of sunshine along with the temperature being quite nice too. We took some pictures, stopping here and there, and then later on picked a nice spot overlooking a lake and enjoyed a danish and coffee that my wife brought along with us. We enjoy doing things like that. The only thing is we don’t do it enough.

With that I am off for some breakfast and will then see what the day has in store. Oh … I will post a few pictures here on my Blog a bit later that we took of the leaves yesterday. Have a great day.

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What’s Happening In Port Loring Ontario, Canada on Oct11/2022

It looks like a real nice day is shaping up for us here in Port Loring. It is cool with the temperature sitting at 0 C | 32 F getting out of bed. It will warm up a lot as the day moves forward. If you want to take in the colour of the leaves, today would be the day to do so. After today the weather is going to be rainy and cooler which will cause the leaves to drop. Highway 522 was busy yesterday with folks moving around trying to find things that were open. We had a few drops by our store. Today, my lovely wife and I will finish closing up our cottage, and might put in one more row of garlic. I did plant a few rows already, but I found some garlic I missed this summer, so I will plant it, better than just letting it go to waste. We did have a great crop this summer. Actually, everything grew well this year.

With that I am off for a bite to eat and will then see how I am feeling. I take things one day at a time these days. Enjoy your day.

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What’s Happening in Port Loring, Ontario, Canada on October10/2022

Happy Thanksgiving

Good Morning!

Starting things off, I hope you all are having a great Thanksgiving. We had our Turkey dinner on Saturday as our one son had to leave for home yesterday, so he would be back for work. He said the Highways weren’t all that bad till he hit the QEW. Other than that, he had a good trip up and back. Yesterday we took it easy chatting to our other son who is leaving today. All in all, we have had a great time.

On another note, it is a touch cool out there, waking up with the temperature sitting at -0.6 C | 30.92 F. It will warm up a bit as the day moves forward with some sunshine, too. Which will make Thanksgiving Day quite nice. Highway 522 hasn’t been all that busy for the past couple days, but that is to be expected being a Holiday weekend. The leaves however are sure nice right now, and I am thinking we will be taking a drive to take some pictures in the coming days, before it’s too late. With this cold wet weather they have been dropping a lot. They sure look pretty right now though. Even nicer when the sun is shinning on them.

With that I am off for a cup of fresh perked coffee my lovely wife is making for us and will then have some sausage and eggs for a change. Occasionally we enjoy something different.

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What’s Happening In Port Loring, Ontario, Canada on Oct 7/2022

It’s a cloudy, cool morning here in Port Loring. The temperature getting out of bed was sitting at 2.4 C | 36.32 F. It will warm up a bit, but not much as the day moves forward. We are also having some rain, which will ease off after lunch. The long weekend isn’t looking all that good weather wise. But you never know, all we can do is hope for the best. We have our oldest son driving up from St Catharines for Thanksgiving and will go back home on Sunday. We were hoping for nice sunny weather, so they could take in the nice colours on their way up. It is also windy out, which is knocking down the leaves. I did get the mowing done yesterday, but with the leaves falling, you would never know I did it. Highway 522 is wet this morning and quiet. I suspect the highways will be busy today and into the night with folks travelling for Thanksgiving. We are still having a lot of hunters moving into our area, which will continue until the end of December, that’s when hunting season is over.

I also got our shower-house outside closed up for winter yesterday and will close up the cottage after Thanksgiving. After that, we should be all set for winter. I still have to move my snowblower to where I can get at it, but there is lots of time to do that.

With that, I am off for a bowl of cereal and will then turn on some heat in our cottage, getting it nice and toasty in there for our son and his family.

In Closing, I Would Like To Wish You Well.

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In Closing, I Would Like to Wish You Well!

George Walters | [email protected]