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.

Morning chat April 24/2021

Good Morning! It is a nice day with the sun showing off. The temperature getting out of bed was sitting at 6.4 C | 43.52 F. It will warm up a lot as the day progresses. Things are sure greening up these days and the trees are starting to show their buds. On another note my wife and I went to town yesterday to pick up our groceries that we order online. We had a good day and got back home around 2:00 PM. Today we will take it a bit easy and if I feel up to it, I might do some outside work I have planned. With that, have a great day and stay safe. GW

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Travellers from abroad

Canadians that live here in Canada are told to stay home, don’t travel. Visitors from other countries is another story, with our government saying ,,,, come on in.

And we wonder why a lot of people here in Canada are upset with the rules that are in place today.

It doesn’t make sense to me.

What we need to do, is look after our own people first. If we do that, we get better. Then we can help others!!

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!

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Morning Chat April 21/2021

Good Morning! We are having a wee bit of sunshine this morning. But in saying that, it is cold outside with the temperature getting out of bed sitting at -5.3 C | 22.46 F. It won’t warm up too much more than it is already. Tomorrow though the weather starts to be nicer. And by the weekend it looks as if we might be able to do some porch sittin’. That would be nice. Overnight everything froze solid, and there is about an inch of ice in my rain barrel. That tells you how cold it is outside. I was planning on installing some more under drainage pipe today, but at the moment the ground is a touch hard for digging. And I don’t feel like working in the cold at the moment. Reason being, the old body doesn’t move as fast when it gets this cold. You could say it rebels. So knowing that, I suspect I will write up a story or two for my newspaper columns. On another note, there has been a lot of new visitors at our bird feeder. Redwing black birds, nuthatches, sparrows, blue jays, even robins, and a few others I haven’t recognized yet. I might have to get out my bird book. Along with them, we have our two regular Crows that comes every day and one huge Raven. We call him Jumper as when he goes to pick up some food we put out there for him, he jumps constantly while he is eating. He puts a smile on our face every day, as do the other birds. Nature can sure be entertaining, if you take the time to watch them. With that I am off for my morning bowl of oatmeal with my lovely wife, and will then see what the day has in store, other than what I have planned. Stay safe. The numbers are dropping a bit now with this virus, but that is only because most people are doing what they should be doing. Staying home! 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!

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Facts of life

And some are still saying that this virus isn’t all that bad.

This is a picture of the Sunny brook field hospital that is being set up because our hospitals, here in Ontario … are overflowing with COVID-19 patients. Click on picture to enlarge.

All my books are available on my Amazon Author Page.

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In Closing, I Would Like to Wish You Well!

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