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.

Groundhogs Predict 6 More Weeks Of Winter

Lovers of snow, sleet and freezing temperatures, rejoice: according to Ontario’s best-known groundhog and his U.S. and Atlantic Canada counterparts, winter will stick around for six more weeks.

“My shadow I see beside me,” it was read. “Six more weeks of winter it will be!”

If no shadow was s seen, legend says, spring will come early.

Oh well what can you do. Can’t argue with Mother Nature.  Guess I will go and bring in a bit more firewood.

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Onions And What To Remember

All commercially-made Mayo is completely safe.

“It doesn’t even have to be refrigerated. No harm in refrigerating it, but it’s not really necessary.” The pH in mayonnaise is set at a point that bacteria could not survive in that environment.  What about the quint essential picnic, with the bowl of potato salad  sitting on the table and how everyone blames the mayonnaise when someone gets sick.

When food poisoning is reported, the first thing the officials look for is when the ‘victim’ last ate ONIONS and where those onions came from (in the potato salad?). It’s not the mayonnaise (as long as it’s not home made Mayo) that spoils in the outdoors. It’s probably the onions, and if  not the onions, it’s the POTATOES. Onions are a huge magnet for  bacteria, especially uncooked onions.

You should never plan to keep a portion of a sliced onion. It’s not even safe if you put it in a zip-lock bag and put it in your refrigerator. It’s already contaminated enough just by being cut open and out for a bit, that it can be a danger to you (and doubly watch out for those onions you put in your hot-dogs at the baseball park!)

Finally, if you take the leftover onion and cook it like crazy you’ll probably be okay, but if you slice that leftover onion and put it on your sandwich, you’re asking for trouble. Both the onions and the moist
potato in a potato salad, will attract and grow bacteria faster than any commercial mayonnaise will even begin to break down.

So, how’s that for news?

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Add On For Port Loring Weather, Week Coming Up Forecast

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Today
A few flurries ending late this afternoon then cloudy with sunny periods. High -9C(15F).
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Tonight
Cloudy. Becoming cloudy periods this evening. Low -22C(-8F).
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Monday
Cloudy with sunny periods. A few flurries beginning in the morning and ending in the afternoon. Clearing later in the afternoon. High -10C(14F).
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Tuesday
Sunny. High -7C(19F).
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Wednesday
A mix of sun and cloud. Low -13C(8F). High -7C(19F).
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Thursday
A mix of sun and cloud. Low -17C(1F). High -6C(21F).
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Friday
Sunny. Low -15C(5F). High -6C(21F).
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Saturday
A mix of sun and cloud. Low -15C(5F). High -7C(19F). Normals for the period low -18C(0F). High -6C(21F

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Port Loring Weather Station Up Date

My weather station is currently having some problems uploading to our personal web site.  In order to compensate for the problem all the data is taken directly from our home here in Port Loring and directed to Weather Underground.  Just click on the Port Loring Link On the Left of the screen down near the bottom and you will be directed to our data.  Until the problem if corrected this will be our official site for the weather here in Port Loring and a surrounding area of around fifty miles.  All sensors still working.  Or this link will take you there also. Just copy and paste.

http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=IONTARIO8

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Old Ice House, Port Loring Ontario, Last Of Its Kind

Here is the old ice house today at our home here in Port Loring.  Still standing and looking good. Well………maybe a bit for wear, but after fifty years I am thinking it is in pretty good shape.  Imagine the stories it could tell. Click to enlarge.

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