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.

Brisk Morning Here In Port Loring

Well I got  to tell ya a feller might have to put on an extra tea-shirt this morning going outside, I know I had to getting the shop stove going. Got down to around 1 Degree old scale last night or I guess I will say it -17 C.  Hmm Now doesn’t 1 degree sound a lot better. That’s what I keep saying all this metric does is fool people into believing things that aren’t true.  Oh well their choice or should say the Powers to be choice as we didn’t have any say in it.  Got to go to town this morning so guess get things in order for the trip.  Talk soon and keep warm.

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Cold But Nice

Well compared to yesterday we got a cold day.  Picked up an old light which I put out back by my bird feeder.  A friend of ours have one out by theirs and it gave us the idea. As every night they get flying squirrels that come for a meal.  I didn’t even know they lived in this neck of the woods and we live in the woods. This way we will be able to have a look see.  It also gets pretty dark on the one side of the house that faces the bush so this will light up things a wee bit. Also might be able to get a glimpse of the deer as they come through during the night.  Things like this that don’t cost anything other than an hour of hydro each night makes for an interesting life.  Got the light hooked up and brought in some firewood for the shop so pretty well set for the day. Home made chicken noodle soup is on the old cook stove so one can’t ask for anything more than that. Pretty rough life huh? Talk Soon.

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Taxes

You know this is the only country in the world that I know of that if one cuts taxes folks get to complaining. I guess them folks has got so much money that it doesn’t matter to them.  If you look at Alberta there is no PST at all and hey guess what,  they do pretty well. It would be ok if the money that they got from taxes went to the places that needed it but it doesn’t and never will.  It’s like most all these charity things or sending money to poorer countries.  I bet if one could see the bottom figure of what really ends up getting to the poor countries you would find out about five cents out of ever dollar if that.  This Province is paying so much for tax that it’s getting hard for any one to make ends meat. I could go on here for an hour but for what good it will ever do, well it’s just a waste of time. The Powers to be of the world today has got folks so paranoid that they can’t look after them selves, that if it wasn’t for the Powers to be folks would not exist.  That is wrong, people have look after themselves and one day, remember this one day,  it will not be money that rules this old world it will be brains and being self efficient.  Talk Soon.

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Almost A Full Moon

Well we almost have a Full Moon out there,  will be here tomorrow.  Walking back from the shop tonight I spotted it up above and with that showing itself it will sure make for a cold night.  Usually one can tell what the months weather will be if he or she takes notes on what the weather is on a full moon.  As what ever it is then that’s what you will pretty well have for the coming month.  So that’s a pretty good  estimate in my eyes.  I have used that way of telling the weather for over 50 years now and well, most the time it’s right,  but you know,  Mother Nature has a way of sending us what ever she wants.  This morning the smoke from the chimney was just hanging in the air and heading towards the ground. One can sure tell when the smoke does that, that it’s going to be a cold day.  Also good way to tell us to put on an extra shirt.   The next full moon is two days before Christmas, the 23rd.  Talk Soon.

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Column Update For The Nugget

This Saturday in the North Bay Nugget my story is about my younger days on Go Home Lake which is located just off HWY 69 south of Perry Sound.  The folks that raised me along with myself put in a road back to the lake years ago a real job for sure.  The lake actually was named after me, well sort of. The way it came to being was one day Reg and Laura was sitting chatting on what to call the lake now that it was open for folks to see.  “Well said Reg after giving it a lot of thought, one of these days George here will be going back home with his real Dad, so lets call it…. Go Home Lake.  And well, that’s what they did and today if you happen by the lake along  HWY 69 and you  see the sign, you will have a heads up on how it all came about.  So don’t forget pick up a copy of the Saturdays North Bay Nugget. Talk soon.

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