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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.
Weather

Getting Colder

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Well started off with a nice day but ended up getting a bit cold.  But we live in the north so it’s expected.   Even got a bit of snow starting to fall out there now.  Worked in the shop most the day on some Flutes and that will be the case I suspect for the next month or so.  Old wood stove in the shop is doing its job along with the one in the house.  Nothing to complain about here tonight.  Talk Soon

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Weather

Warm Day Here In Port Loring

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Well a pretty nice day here again. Sunshine and temperatures got up to around 50 or so. Can’t beat that for this time of the year. Worked in the shop today on some Flutes and things. Darn old cedar still bugging me though. Oh well if that is all I have to complain about I am no to bad off. Tomorrow colder weather heading out way. Talk Soon.

WX200 ff:            localhost:9753  14/11 21:44:42
  1.3             Display:    Clock/0/0          Power: AC  Battery: ok
             ---------- Outdoor -----------  ----------- Indoor -----------
Temperature: 38.3 F Hi 61.5 F 31/10 14:24    73.0 F Hi 77.2 F  9/11 19:10
                    Lo 23.2 F  7/11 19:35           Lo 61.0 F  2/11  8:25
   Humidity:   68 % Hi   97 % 12/11 18:41      42 % Hi   46 % 31/10 13:12
                    Lo   35 % 31/10 14:31           Lo   34 %  6/11 21:27
  Dew Point:   32 F Hi   46 F 31/10 19:35      48 F Hi   52 F  2/11 17:46
                    Lo   32 F 31/10 14:50           Lo   36 F  2/11  6:39
Wind Gust:237WSW@  0.0 mph    Wind Gust Hi:288WNW@ 26.2 mph   31/10 19:54
      Avg:237WSW@  0.0 mph      Wind Chill:  39 F   Lo:   1 F  6/11 23:17
Rain Rate: 0.00 in/h  Yesterday: 0.00 in Total:32.48 in since  1/ 1  0:00
Barometer: Steady at 28.67 in  29.55 in  sea; 12-24hr forecast: Sunny

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Gardening

Tea Time Problem Solved

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Well not a bad day here.  Decided on cleaning the shop a bit along with my shop vac.  Then since it’s such a nice day would leave  the door open to air out the place, the shop that is.  You know I have been giving this tea a bit of thought. One thing us folks in the country have to deal with is scum on our tea.   It’s nothing to do with anything being wrong with it, it’s the hard water we have.  The minerals and things tend to cause this scum.  Over the years folks have tried all kinds of things to eliminate it with out to much success.  The folks that raised me years ago had a simple remedy and thought I would share it with you.  Simple and one doesn’t need a diploma hanging on the wall to figure it out. Lemon, yep that’s it.  The acid in the lemon counter reacts with the scum and prevents it.  Simple huh?  Well I got to be honest here as I didn’t remember what the solution was till one night while I was sleeping.  I dreamed that Laura the lady of the house was putting a touch of lemon in her tea pot.  Then it all came back to me. So in the morning I got up and tried it. Took a bit to get it right as I don’t much like the lemon taste in tea. But after four or five mornings of making tea we finally got it right.  About a 1/4 tea spoon per tea pot.  Works slick and no more scum.   Talk Soon

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Weather

Nice Day

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Well had a nice day here temperatures got up there a bit today and well, it was just a nice day to be outside.  I kept busy in the shop working on a few Flutes and things.  Got to say this year I sort of took an allergic reaction to white cedar for some reason. Kind of makes one feel like he is catching a cold but in reality he isn’t.  Guess I might have to switch to another type of wood. Thinking Basswood once I get these done that I have on the go. Such is life, as it is never with out something to stew over.  Talk soon.

WX200 ff:            localhost:9753  13/11 20:14:42  
  1.3             Display:    Clock/0/0          Power: AC  Battery: ok 
             ---------- Outdoor -----------  ----------- Indoor -----------
Temperature: 42.1 F Hi 61.5 F 31/10 14:24    75.7 F Hi 77.2 F  9/11 19:10  
                    Lo 23.2 F  7/11 19:35           Lo 61.0 F  2/11  8:25  
   Humidity:   81 % Hi   97 % 12/11 18:41      38 % Hi   46 % 31/10 13:12  
                    Lo   35 % 31/10 14:31           Lo   34 %  6/11 21:27  
  Dew Point:   37 F Hi   46 F 31/10 19:35      48 F Hi   52 F  2/11 17:46  
                    Lo   32 F 31/10 14:50           Lo   36 F  2/11  6:39  
Wind Gust:218SW @  0.0 mph    Wind Gust Hi:288WNW@ 26.2 mph   31/10 19:54  
      Avg:218SW @  2.2 mph      Wind Chill:  43 F   Lo:   1 F  6/11 23:17  
Rain Rate: 0.00 in/h  Yesterday: 0.04 in Total:32.48 in since  1/ 1  0:00  
Barometer: Steady at 28.85 in  29.73 in  sea; 12-24hr forecast: Rain

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The Old Craftsman's Woodworking Shop

Shop Work (Native American Flutes)

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Well figured I had better get at some of my shop work today, been awhile and got to be in the right frame of mind to work on my Flutes. I usually make around fifty a year as that seems to be the magic number for sales though out the summer months in our small store. I have been making them for a lot of years now but I had a good teacher, old Grey Wolf. He would sit for hours getting them just tuned right. But as he said “they have to be done right, as who wants a Flute that doesn’t sing properly.” I make most mine out of white cedar that I get from a local bush. The fellow that owns the bush is a good friend of mine and I am very luck to know him. The cedars I use are not live, they have long passed on and it gives me a good feeling taking an old dead piece and bringing it back to life. Got four ready today and tomorrow will work on tuning them. Talk soon.

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In Closing, I Would Like to Wish You Well!

George Walters | [email protected]