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.

What’s Happening On June 22/2022

Good Morning!

It’s a touch cloudy here this morning in Port Loring, Ontario. But the clouds are burning off fast, and I suspect the sunshine will be boring down on us shorty. There are heat warnings up once again for our area. It will cool down a wee bit tomorrow, but will still remain quite warm, staying in the high 80s F. Highway 522 is slowly getting busier and will continue that way for the next couple of months. The mosquitoes and black flies aren’t bothering anybody through the day, but the deer flies are with us and annoying anyone they come in contact with. My son bought me a hand bug sapper that I now use when sitting on my front porch. I have to admit they work pretty good.

On another note, I haven’t been doing all that much lately, as I am still not feeling all that good. So more rest is needed till I get well. I have bad days and fair days. At any rate, we are making good use of our front porch these days.

Today I will be taking it easy once again. With that, I am off for a bowl of oatmeal and then will open our small store that my lovely wife looks after. Take care and stay safe.

In Closing, I Would Like To Wish You Well

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What’s Happening On June 19/2022

Good Morning!

It’s another nice looking day here in Port Loring, Ontario, Canada. Hardly a cloud in the sky. The good news is the wind has died down, as it has been major windy for the past three days. It’s also been quite cool. The temperature here for Father’s Day is sitting at 10.7 C | 51.26 F. It will warm up a lot as the day moves forward. And we could see a shower later on in the day. The mosquitoes and black flies haven’t been all that bad, but the deer flies are sure annoying in places.

Highway 522 is getting busier with folks moving around more. Most are from our area, out and about checking out stores here in town. In spite of it being cool and windy, we had a fair turn out at our small store yesterday, with folks dropping by. I suspect the price of gas, groceries and taxes is kind of making people more cautious these days when it comes to travelling and spending. I can’t say I blame them, neither. Building has come to a grinding halt with the price of lumber and things. They think by raising the prices they will make more money, but they are wrong as people are starting to see what they are doing and will start to put things on hold, and stop spending. Which is the right thing to do, as it is the only way we the working man can make them change their ways. What goes around, comes around, I always say.

Yesterday my wife and I didn’t do too much as we both aren’t all that well yet. We are hoping things will change for the better sooner than later. Hard to predict with a couple old bodies. But we make the best of it when ever possible.

With that I am going to see if I can eat something and will then once it warms up retire to my rocking chair on our new front porch. I am glad I got that fixed up, as we both use it a lot, especially now.

In Closing, I Would Like To Wish You Well. And Happy Father’s Day to all them Fathers out there.

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What’s Happening On June 17/2022

Good Morning!

It’s a really nice day here in Port Loring, Ontario, Canada. The sun is shinning, things have cooled down some, and the humidity has left us. What could be better than that? Not much in my eyes. It will warm up a wee bit as the day moves forward. Nice weather for doing some outside work. Not that I can do much at the moment. And my lovely wife has been feeling poorly too, she has been overdoing things. So in all reality, we both have to take it a bit easy these days. Yesterday we both got the mowing of our property out of the way, but it took all we had to do it. Today we will open up our store and take things a bit easy. Chatting to customers that drop by for a visit. We have a real good selection of new items this year, which I am thinking will impress a lot of buyers and friends. As I have said in other posts … it is a small store, but it is loaded up with unique, one of a kind items and once I feel better I will get to making a lot more. We will see how that goes.

Highway 522 is getting busier every day in spite of the gas prices being so high. What will happen now after raising it up to $2.20 a Litre they will drop it down to around $2.00 a litre and everyone will be happy. That’s the way they do things in this country, and with so many folks having blinders on, they can’t see what these companies are doing. It was the same as bringing in the metric system, as it fools people into thinking they are getting a great deal, when they really honestly aren’t. Sign of the times, for sure.

So with that bit of info under your hat, I am off for a boiled egg and a piece of toast and will then ease my way into things. Take care and stay safe. GW

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