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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 2/2021

Good Morning! It’s a sunny day here in Port Loring Ontario, It is a bit cool though with the temperature sitting at -6.3 C | 20.66 F. It will warm up a wee bit as the day moves forward. And by the looks of things now, it will start to warm up a lot come Sunday, and all next week is looking pretty nice too. I am thinking my wife and I will be doing some front porch sittin in the coming days. We … also have a big job to do outside getting ready for an outside shower and things, so I might get into that if I feel up to it. I would like to get a lot of it done before the blackflies enter into the picture. Then when they arrive I will work on installing a new wood stove we bought in the cottage, where I can get away from them blood sucking parasites. So lots to do. Highway 522 is bare and dry this morning, which will make travelling good, but it’s best if you stay home. I see they have a lock-down for all of Ontario starting tomorrow. Which is a good thing, and I have been saying it all along. IN doing so it will give folks time to get the vaccine, along with bringing down the numbers, as it is getting real bad with folks getting sick, and the death rate is rising a lot too. The problem was that if you close one town down, and not the rest, people just up and go to the towns or cities that aren’t locked down, which in turn spreads it even more. I also feel that they should have closed down a lot more stores like all the churches along with the schools. The Bottom line is, that a lot of people don’t care, and they won’t care … until they become sick, or someone in their family becomes sick or? What a shame that is. At any rate … I don’t want to get to thinking on them things today. Why? Well … it’s my birthday, and all I want to think on today is good things. You know … I had a feller call me yesterday to wish me a Happy Birthday, and he went on to say. You don’t look that old! I thanked him, and then I got to thinking about that statement. And you know what? I am still thinking about that statement LOL Have a great day and stay safe. GW

Happy Birthday, George!!

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Episode 67: Cowboy Hats

Episode 67: Hi folks. Boy time sure fly’s by. Here it is again Friday and time for another Podcast. Lately being so cold outside I have been working on a few different Podcasts. Reason being I don’t want to be stuck in the house when the nice weather arrives. Which by the looks of things isn’t that far off. With that … I hope you enjoy today’s story. Cowboy Hats. Take care and stay safe, there is a light at the end of the tunnel beginning to show itself with these new vaccines arriving daily. GW

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Chain of Love Great Video

Here is a great song sent to me by my Cousin John. I think it is a song that everyone should listen to. Especially with what is going on in the world today. Listen closely, especially the ending. It is sung by Mike Denver. Thanks, John.

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Morning Chat March 31/2021

Good Morning! Last day of the month, and it’s a cloudy morning here in Port Loring, Ontario. It is a touch cool with the temperature sitting at 3.1 C | 37.58 F. It will remain cool for another couple of days, and then things will start to warm up to where a feller or gal would enjoy being outside. If lucky these clouds should start to move out of our area around lunch, and maybe, we might see some sunshine. Got my fingers crossed. Highway 522 is bare and dry this morning in-spite of the showers we had overnight. Yesterday I stayed in for most of the day with the weather being so windy and things. I was planning on some front porch sittin’ but that wind kind of changed our minds. So we had our afternoon coffee inside chatting. If there is one thing my wife and I enjoy, and do well … it’s chatting. We always seem to have an endless supply of topics. And you know! They are all interesting too LOL LOL. I chalk it up to being married for 50 Years. Actually … we both just had our 50th year anniversary of being married, the day before yesterday. We sure have been a through a lot together. I did finish up another Podcast and will work on another today. I enjoy doing them for folks, and it does keep the old mind off things that are upsetting. Especially these days. On another note, we have still been burning wood in our wood furnace. I suspect I will light it again this morning. When not burning wood we burn oil. I have to admit … that I am getting a touch lazy in that department, as this winter I burned wood all day, and then I let the oil furnace come on through the night. Kind of nice, as we don’t have to get up. On the real cold nights I do. So with that bit of information out in the open, I am off for my morning bowl of cereal with my lovely wife, and will then see what develops. You just never know. Take care of yourselves and stay safe. GW

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Close the damn Schools

And this isn’t enough information to close the schools. Man I have to shake my head in disbelief.

The Ministry of Education reported another 518 school-related cases confirmed between last Friday and yesterday afternoon, including 440 students, 77 staff members and one person who was not identified. A total of 58, or about 1.2 per cent of Ontario’s 4,828 publicly-funded schools, are closed due to the illness.

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