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 2/2022

Good Morning! It’s a cold, frosty morning here in Northern Ontario, Canada. The temperature climbing out of bed was sitting at-6.6 C | 20.12 F. A little colder than yesterday. Cold enough for me to get up through the night to feed our wood furnace. Not that I had to mind ya, but since I was up anyway I figured I might as well put a couple pieces, which in turn will save some oil. The price of gas, oil and Propane is ridiculous these days. And the worst part is our Powers That Be raised it another 2 cents for their green thing. Makes me shake my head. And you know what bothers me the most? They say, oh, don’t worry, we will give you a rebate. That’s a laugh, for sure. My way of looking at it is, if they are going to give us a rebate, why charge us to begin with. This what they are doing isn’t going to help our environment one bit. My opinion only, of course. It’s just someone wanting to be noticed. Well … they will and are being noticed.

Anyway, I had my say on the subject. Getting all in a huff before I even had my first cup of coffee. Sheesh!

Highway 522 is bare and dry this morning, which will make travelling good.

Have a great day, I am going to get myself a cup of coffee. GW

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What’s Happening April 1/2022

We had two feet of snow here in Northern Ontario, Canada, and more is coming down.

April fools. LOL However, we are having some snow coming down at the moment. I suspect we will get around an inch or so of new snow. Yesterday we got rid of a bunch more and all the ice we had the day before that. The temperatures aren’t as warm today, with it sitting at -3.3 C | 26.06 F. It will arm up a bit more as the day moves forward. We also had some real high winds yesterday that made a mess out on our lawn. But it will have to wait till it warms up some before we get to cleaning things up.

On another note, we are still burning wood in the house and shop. Not that cold, but cold enough to make it uncomfortable. Yesterday I started working on some projects in my woodworking shop and today will carry on. I am making a railing for the top of our stairs here in the house. Which will make things safer for those going up and down. Then after that I will make a banister to hang onto. That should keep me busy for most of the day.
With that, I am off for a bowl of cereal and will then get to work. Take care and stay safe, this virus is closing in on us here in Port Loring fast these days with a lot of folks being sick. I think it will only get worse before it gets better with the masks mandate being removed. My wife and I still wear ours and will continue to do so for the next year or so when going into stores and things. Why? They keep us on the safe side along with others. We couldn’t begin to imagine what it would be like to live with the thought of catching the virus and giving it to someone else. Have a great day.

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Episode98: The Great Depression Along With Other Things

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Episode 98: Good Morning! Well … here we are with my 98th episode. Boy, time sure flies by. Starting off, I would like to say that I appreciate you taking the time to listen to me here at my podcast. I would also like to say that … I know some episodes weren’t the best, reason being, I have been in training mode, you might say. Ha ha. But the more a person works at something, the better a person becomes. The hardest part was learning to use the audio recording and editing software. And a new mic and things helped a lot too. But mostly, it is a learning process. At any rate, thanks for hanging in there. It should also be noted that I have been getting a lot of emails from folks saying they are liking them. So … I guess I must be doing something right. I also appreciate you letting me know.

Have a great day!

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What’s Happening On March 30/2022

Good Morning. It’s another cool, cloudy morning here in Northern Ontario, Canada. Highway at the moment is bare and dry. In saying that we some not so good weather will be moving into our area later on today. Along with the not so good weather, we will be seeing some strong winds.

So knowing all that, I am thinking I will bring in a few wheel barrels of wood for our wood furnace as I am almost out. With the ice they are calling for and the high winds, we could have some power outages. That’s the nice thing about wood heat, we are always warm. No matter what weather Mother Nature throws at us.

On another note, my wife and I had a very busy day moving things around in our home here getting things ready for our new store. I am not sure about you, but we sure have a lot of stuffffff. We are thinking we might have a garage sale early this spring and see if we can unload a bit. Couple pack rats we are. Sheesh. It took us all day yesterday, and we still have more to do today to finish it up. Well it will never be finished, but at least we will know what we have and where things are. LOL.

With that, I am off for a bowl of cereal and will then get to work. I’m ready, but not sure about some parts of my body. Have a great day. 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.

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In Closing, I Would Like to Wish You Well!

George Walters | [email protected]