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.

Woodworking Shop

Well been working in the shop the past few days on some projects for our small store come spring.  Keeps me busy and I enjoy it.  Gets me out of the house and keeps the old mind moving in the right direction.  For folks that sit around the house all day, find your self something that interests you and get out there and do it.  Keeps us older and younger folks healthy.  Nothing worse than to just sit around and do nothing.   I figure each day I wake up an look outside I am given another day so I make the most of it trying not to waste one minute, life is just to short for that.  Talk Soon.

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Snow Pretty Well All Gone

Well we had our January thaw. Some would say now that the Global Warming has hit but I say it’s nothing of the sort.  January thaws have been with us from the beginning of time. Some years are more pronounced than some but for most parts they are about the same.  One thing about this thaw was, I got rid of the ice build up on my roof.  I sure had a lot this year and it was my own fault.  I didn’t shut up the upstairs and the warmth got up there and well that is what causes the ice jams.  So now that it is melted I closed up the old trap door and it should be good for the next couple months till spring hits.  Today was sunny a first for a few days so that was nice to see for a change. Cooler but nice.  Talk Soon.

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Enjoying Them Summer Vegtables

Well with winter about half way through we sure have been enjoying our preserves we did up last summer. Nothing can be nicer that enjoying fresh fruit and veggies in the middle of winter.  Also nice knowing that we are eating health food too as growing them you know what’s in them or on them.  We put away lots of strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, apples, and just to many veggies to name. The wife freezes most of them but she does up a lot of tomatoes in jars.  One has to put a bit of work into a garden but the benefits out way the work.  Well thought I would say hello and hope you are all doing well in 2008, man where does the time go. Talk Soon

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Pretty Good Day

Well not a bad day here today but calling for a storm later on tonight. Up to around four or five inches of the white stuff is what they are calling for.  Talk Soon.

WX200 ff:            localhost:9753  28/12 18:14:38  
  1.3             Display:    Clock/0/0          Power: AC  Battery: ok 
             ---------- Outdoor -----------  ----------- Indoor -----------
Temperature: 27.7 F Hi 33.8 F 27/12 13:49    74.5 F Hi 74.8 F 27/12 19:21  
                    Lo 21.7 F 28/12  2:03           Lo 63.3 F 28/12  6:59  
   Humidity:   81 % Hi   91 % 27/12 22:50      33 % Hi   34 % 27/12  5:37  
                    Lo   57 % 28/12 11:33           Lo   31 % 26/12 21:57  
  Dew Point:   32 F Hi   32 F 26/12 17:01      45 F Hi   45 F 27/12 17:11  
                    Lo   32 F 26/12 17:01           Lo   34 F 28/12  3:23  
Wind Gust:078ENE@  3.1 mph    Wind Gust Hi:143SE @  8.7 mph   26/12 17:04  
      Avg:078ENE@  3.1 mph      Wind Chill:  28 F   Lo:  18 F 26/12 23:03  
Rain Rate: 0.00 in/h  Yesterday: 0.00 in Total:33.43 in since  1/ 1  0:00  
Barometer: Falling at 29.12 in  30.00 in  sea; 12-24hr forecast: Rain

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December Weather

DECEMBER 2007: temperature -5°C (avg.); precipitation 20mm (20mm below avg.); Dec 1-4: Periods of snow, cold; Dec 5-10: Sunny, then snow, cold; Dec 11-16: Rain and snow showers, mild; Dec 17-21: Flurries, cold; Dec 22-26: Rain and snow showers, mild, then sunny, cold; Dec 27-31: Flurries, mild.


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]