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 April 17/2022

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It’s a cold morning here in Port Loring, Ontario, Canada, The temperature feels more like winter than spring, sitting at -4 C | 24.8 F. However it will warm up a lot as the day moves forward. And on top of that, the sun should remain with us pretty well all day before the clouds roll in for tonight. Temperature wise it will now start to rise every day which is okay with us as we both are looking forward to some front porch sittin’ Highway 522 is bare and dry this morning. We did have a pretty good frost overnight, with everything being white this morning.

For the past three days, my wife and I have been enjoying the company of our oldest son and his fiancé. They are leaving to go back home this morning. We only get to see them once or twice a year. Hopefully this virus will mellow out for the summer, which I am sure it will, and we will get to see them more often.

Our cottage worked out nice for them, and the electric heater we bought awhile back kept them nice and warm. Today we will say our goodbyes for a spell and will then get things back to normal, getting things ready for our grand re-opening for our small gift shop around the end of May. We will see how things are working out with this virus.

With that I am off for a bacon and tomato sandwich my lovely wife is making for me and will then see what the day has in store other than what we have planned. Stay safe and have a great day. GW

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The Walters Post, always striving to bring out the truth.

A glass of wine.

To my friends who enjoy a glass of wine and those who don’t and are always seen with a bottle of water in their hand:

As Ben Franklin said:
In wine there is wisdom,
In beer there is freedom,
In water there is bacteria.
In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E. Coli) – bacteria found in feces. In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop annually.
However, we do NOT run that risk when drinking wine & beer (or rum, whiskey or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through a purification process of boiling, filtering and fermenting.
Remember:
Water = Poop,
Wine = Health
Therefore, it’s better to drink wine and talk stupid, than to drink water and be full of …..

There is no need to thank me for this valuable information: I’m doing it as a public service.

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It Pays to Listen to the whole story these days.

Little Johnny watched his daddy’s car pass by the school playground and go into the woods. Curious, he followed the car and saw Daddy and Aunt Jane in a passionate embrace.

Little Johnny found this so exciting that he could hardly contain himself as he ran home and started to tell his mother. ‘Mummy, I was at the playground and I saw Daddy’s car go into the woods with Aunt Jane. I
went back to look, and he was giving Aunt Jane a big kiss, and then he helped her take off her shirt. Then Aunt Jane helped Daddy take his pants off, then Aunt Jane…’>

At this point, Mummy cut him off and said, ‘Johnny, this is such an interesting story, let’s save the rest of it for supper time. I want to see the look on Daddy’s face when you tell it tonight.’>

At the dinner table that evening, Mummy asked little Johnny To tell his story
Johnny started his story, ‘I was at the playground and I saw Daddy’s car go into the woods with Aunt Jane. I went back to look, and he was giving Aunt Jane a big kiss, then he helped her take off her shirt. Then Aunt Jane helped Daddy take his pants off, then Aunt Jane and Daddy started doing the same thing that Mummy and Uncle Bill used to do when Daddy was away on the oil rigs.’

Mummy fainted!

Moral:

Sometimes you need to just shut up and listen to the whole story before you interrupt!

You can reach George Walters at: [email protected]

All my books are available on my Amazon Author Page.

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Old Friends Are Best

Good morning! Well … I have been thinking on what to say here this morning to all my friends that have gotten in touch with me over the years, liking my Blog and Podcasts. Then this song happened upon me. Sent to me by my cousin. So give it a listen, when you find a minute. Have a great Easter Weekend. GW

You can reach George Walters at: [email protected]

All my books are available on my Amazon Author Page.

If you purchase a book, a brief Amazon review really helps new readers discover my work—it means a lot.

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In Closing, I Would Like to Wish You Well!

George Walters | [email protected]

Episode 100: Starting Your Own Vegetable Garden

Episode 100: Good Morning! Happy Easter … and welcome to my 100th Podcast. Hard to believe I made it this far. But as anything in life, a little at a time gets things done. Today’s Podcast will be the last until Fall, when I will start it back up again. At the moment we have a lot on the go which will be taking most of our time. So with that. You all have a great summer, and I will see you all here on my Podcast come Fall.

It should be noted!! I will continue with, What’s Happening,every morning. Stay Safe! GW

All my books are available on my Amazon Author Page.

If you purchase a book, a brief Amazon review really helps new readers discover my work—it means a lot.

Support my writing: Support My Writing

In Closing, I Would Like to Wish You Well!

George Walters | [email protected]