Good Morning! Well, we are finally having some sunshine here this morning in Port Loring, Ontario. Over the past few days, we have had our share of rain. But it was needed, for sure. Highway 522 is very busy these days with campers moving in and around our area from all over. Is it a good thing? Time will tell. Let’s hope so. One good thing is that them pesky blood sucking parasites haven’t been all that bad lately. Mosquitoes are somewhat annoying in the evening hours, or in the shady areas. On another note, I have pretty well got our new wrap around deck finished which we are adding to our cottage. I am now in the process of adding a new facer board on the cottage and will then get to staining things. My lovely wife picked out a nice grey stain. Should be nice when all said and done. On another note, we decided since it was a rainy day to go to North Bay and pick up our groceries yesterday, which we ordered online. The stores were packed with people going about their duties as if nothing was or is wrong. The numbers though has dropped dramatically with the vaccines that has been administered over the past couple months. While in town, my wife and I had our second shot of the Pfizer vaccine, so we are fully vaccinated now. Our arms are a wee bit sore as if someone punched us, but other than that we are both fine. No other issues to speak of. So we will now see how that works out. I hope almost everyone eventually sees that it is the thing to do. The only way this virus can carry on and get stronger is inside people without the vaccine. At any rate, what will be, will be. Today my wife and I should take a break, but we have mowing to do as the grass is getting a touch long. We will work slowly at that in a bit. My wife’s leg and back is still hurting her a lot. Hard to keep her down. With that bit of info under your hat, I am off for my breakfast and will then see what the day has in store. You just never know. GW

Good Morning! It’s a cloudy day here in Port Loring, Ontario, waking up. We probably will see some rain later on in the day. Highway 522 is very busy these days with folks coming in from all over. My wife and I are staying put, working around our home. For the past week, we have been working on a wrap around deck for our cottage. Which will make it nice for friends and guests when they come to visit. It has been a lot of work as I am using rough lumber, planing it down making my own decking and 2x6s. I figured I saved half of what it would have cost if I was to buy lumber already dressed. With the prices they are charging today for lumber. So things are working out. I hear though that the price has dropped somewhat. I hope it gets back to normal soon. There are a lot of companies taking advantage of us humans. Today I will continue on working away. My lovely wife has been laid up for a few days now with a sore back and leg. All the work we have been doing this year has taken its toll on her. So she is now sitting watching me in a lawn chair under a tree. But she is still moving around a bit making meals and a few light duties. Hard to keep her down. With that, I am off for my morning bowl of cereal and will then get to work. That is, if the rain holds off. I hope so, as one more good day of work should pretty well finish the deck, other than staining it. Take care and stay safe. GW

Good Morning! So how you all doing? Good I hope. You know, I have found that no matter how a person’s day is, there is always something good in it. Be it rain, pain, anguish, sadness or … what ever. The trick is to find the good parts. For me, just getting out of bed is a great start in my search. LOL And at night I like to look back over my day and see if I missed anything. Usually I find I have done quite well. Anyway … I got carried away there this morning. LOL. Highway 522 is quiet today, but it will pick up as soon as our sun is back out showing off. But I don’t think we will see too much of it today. Tomorrow, though, things start to change for the better, weather wise. The temperature waking up was actually a touch cool, sitting at 10.8 C | 51.44 F. It will warm up a wee bit later on, but not much. We also had some rain through the night, and it will continue on and off for most of the day. Yesterday started off with rain, much like today. I was just about to give up working outside, when I said … “You could stop raining now, as I would sure like to get some work done on the deck I am building around our small cottage.” You know … it did, and my lovely wife and I got a lot done. We even had a few glimpses of the sun. You know, over the years, even when we lived on the farm. No matter what I had planned outside, when I asked the weather, to cooperate, it did. It’s been that way all my life. Coincidence? Hard to believe that. Maybe it’s because the weather and I work together and understand each other. What ever the reason, things have always worked out. Today though we have mowing to do, but it is raining quite hard, so, I don’t think we will get to doing that. But you never know. I haven’t put in my request yet this morning. LOL LOL With that. You all take care and stay safe. GW

Good Morning! It’s a cloudy, wet morning here in Port Loring, Ontario. The rain will remain with us for most of the day, tonight and into tomorrow. So I guess my deck building will be put on hold for a day or so. We did however get a lot done yesterday, which is nice. Now though, since we have gone this far, my lovely wife says we should continue on with a wrap around deck instead of just one on the front of the cottage. LOL So giving it some thought, I decided she was right, and we might as well get it all done this year and out of the way. It will be an extra expense, but it will make it real nice for family and friends when they come to stay or visit. Highway 522 is still very busy these days with folks moving around our small community. The rain will slow them down a bit today. Since it is raining, I will do some inside work, after I have some bacon and eggs that my lovely wife is making me. With that, take care and stay safe and have a great day. GW

Good Morning! It’s a cloudy, muggy morning here in Port Loring, Ontario. But the temperature isn’t bad at all. Getting out of bed, it was sitting at 19.9 C | 67.82 F. It will warm up as the day moves forward. We could see some showers later on in the day and into tomorrow. I am hoping not, as I am in the midst of building the new deck on our cottage. But there isn’t much we can do about that. The weather will do what the weather wants to do. Come to think about it … the weather these days are kind of like our Government. They do what ever they want to do. I heard one time a joke which makes a lot of sense these days. Goes something like this. The problem with political jokes is that they keep getting elected. Lot of truth to them, few words. LOL Anyway, highway 522 is very busy these days, and I suspect it will get even busier as the days move forward, with the lockdown easing off. People are tired and getting away is their escape. I just hope their escape, doesn’t turn out to be a disaster for them or others. Time will tell, as it always does. If folks do what they suppose to do, and follow the rules and get vaccinated, they should be okay … for now. Some have asked me. “GW, how is that for years you have said that getting the flu shot isn’t the way to go, and that a lot of medicines of today do more harm than good. ? And now you are all for the vaccine.” Well … I am still inclined to go by what I have said, but when it comes to a virus like we have in our midst now, and all the science that is out there now, I would think a person would be a …. not to at least take a serious look at these new vaccines we have today. Which my family and I have done. And after taking a serious look at things, we have all had our first shot of the Pfizer. And we will get our second shot in a month or so. I honestly think that the one shot will go a long way in helping folks, more than what is being said. And I also believe that waiting for a while before the second shot will be a lot more beneficial. Why is that? Glad you asked. Simply put, the body is an amazing machine. And with these new vaccines that teach the body what to do, I suspect that once it sees things as they truly are happening, it will react on its own and get into doing what is right. I also like the Pfizer as it is, is German Made. And the Germans are very health related. They also make some of the best products in the world. Which we could do here in Canada if our Powers That Be got off their … and started to do. But hey who am I, just one old feller sharing what he thinks is right, in a world, that well, at the moment to me is one mixed up mess. Take care, my friends. Stay safe. GW

Good Morning! The sun is shinning and the temperature waking up was sitting at 16.4 C | 61.52 F. It will warm up a bit more as the day progresses. No one should have any complaints with the weather in our area at the moment. You could say it’s weather you can almost do anything in. Highway 522 is still very busy with folks moving around from all over. I am not sure where they are all going, or doing, as we only have two stores and a LCBO here in town. Oh, and three restaurants, LOL. But they seem to find places to go to. LOL I suspect most are sight see’rs taking in what we and Nature has to offer. Which is a lot if you really think about it. At least on the Nature end of things. Yesterday we had a busy day. Orders are coming in from all over for my wife’s paintings. She is lining them up to do some now, some later on this winter, when she has more time. For myself, I hooked up a hot water heater for our cottage and installed an air conditioner It was a job, but it is sure nice now and will be a great asset to what’s to come. Once I had that finished, I managed to finish up our new swing set and will add a picture at the end of this post. It turned out really nice, and today we will do some swing settin” LOL I am also planning on adding a new deck to our cottage, so I might get busy working on that. I have to move some plants first which resides around the cottage. I am thinking it will be a good week’s work, that is if the weather and body allows. So with that I am off for some homemade pancakes my lovely wife is making, and I will get to work. Work I enjoy doing, that is. Take care and stay safe.

Good Morning! Well … it’s a nice sunny July morning here in Port Loring, Ontario for change. Sure looks nice out there, especially after my lovely wife and I mowed our lawn yesterday. The blackflies are gone now, and the mosquitoes haven’t been all that bad so far this year. The horse and deer flies are also easing off too, which makes me smile. Yesterday I got to work in the afternoon building the tripod affair that will hold our new swing that I made last winter. I have to admit, there is a lot of work involved in getting everything all done up the way we want it. I will take a few pictures and share it with you when all said and done. If lucky, I should have it finished sometime today, other than putting some wood preserver on the tripod. And picking up some bolts and chain at Home Hardware here in town, so I can hang it. So it will be another busy day. But we are doing the things we like. And along with that we live in the nicest part of all Ontario, Fresh air, beautiful scenery, animals and birds of all kinds that visit our bird feeder. Heck! Just to sit on our front porch is sure something. With that, I am off for some bacon and eggs that my lovely wife is making me, and I am thinking a coffee out on our front porch is in order this morning. Just because we can. Take care and stay safe.

Good Morning! And happy July 1st to you all. Boy, time is sure flying by these days. It’s a cloudy morning here in Port Loring, Ontario. And we did have a touch of rain through the night. The good news weather wise is, we should be seeing some sunshine later on in the day and into tomorrow. We needed the rain, but now we need the sunshine, so folks can get outside and soak up some vitamin D 3, that pretty well everyone is low on these days. And being low on vitamin D can cause all kinds of problems health wise. Highway 522 is really busy these days with folks from all over coming into our small community. Extra care will have to be taken. Truth be told, we have more cases of this virus now in our midst here in the North than ever before. Reason being, a lot aren’t doing what they should be doing. It seems that now that they have had the vaccine, they think they are invincible. But they aren’t. There are 62 active cases, 57 in Nipissing. On another note, my lovely wife and I went to town yesterday to pick up our groceries that we order online, so we don’t have to go into any stores. The stores though were packed with people. Time will tell how we make out with all this going on. I just hope the virus doesn’t evolve into one that the vaccines can’t fix. As they are saying …. we really haven’t changed things that much yet because of the delta variant, and the fact is, the vaccines, with only one dose, are only about a 30 per cent efficacy. So a lot of people can still get really sick. Again, time will tell. While in town, we visited our son in his apartment’s parking lot and chatted for a bit from a distance. We then ate our lunch in our car and headed on home. We had a great day, actually. Other than my car needing a new battery, which my good friend Kerry here in town has ordered for us. I will get that put in today some time, after we finish up our mowing. With that, I am off for my morning bowl of cereal and will then get to work. Take care and stay safe. GW

Good Morning! It’s another cloudy morning here in Port Loring, Ontario. We did have some more rain through the night. Things are sure green now. Just what we needed. The temperature getting out of bed was sitting at 20.1 C | 68.18 F. Not to bad, but it will warm up as the day moves forward. For those with allergies our air is pretty good today, even with the high humidity. We should see some sunshine a bit later. Which will make things nicer for those that want to do some outside work. Highway 522 is still busy these days, and I suspect it will get a lot busier nearing the middle of the week with the long weekend closing in on us. On another note, if the rain holds off I am going to build a tripod affair that will hold the new swing I made last winter. Then when my wife and I get tired or want to rest a bit we have it to sit on. The swing itself turned out great. The tripod is going to be a challenge. We will have to see how that goes. The reason I want to build it, is that if we ever want to move it, all’s we have to do is unhook the swing and away we go. With that, I am off for my morning bowl of oatmeal, or Porridge as we used to call it years ago. There is nothing better to lower your blood pressure than Porridge. It also helps with a lot of other health issues too. Take care and stay safe. GW

Good Morning! It’s another warm, muggy morning here in Port Loring, Ontario. The temperature waking up was sitting at 20.5 C | 68.9 F. It will warm up more as the day progresses, and we could see some more rain. But in saying all that, we might if lucky see some sunshine later on. Speaking about rain, we did have a really nice rain through the night, which was needed as things were very dry. You can almost see a smile on the trees and plants. My vegetable garden is growing leaps and bounds these days. We also have been eating fresh lettuce salads from our garden, which is sure tasty. It’s amazing how fast it grows after a rain. We also have blossoms on our zucchini, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, squash and pumpkins. So it won’t be long before we start seeing some other vegetables. Which will be nice. I can’t wait for a tomato sandwich. This year I planted a bunch of low acid tomatoes, thinking they might be a bit easier on the old stomach. We will see how that goes. I had some very old seeds from years ago, and they all grew. Yesterday I worked on my old Stihl Weed Eater which has been giving me some problems. I have had it for over twenty some years and hardly ever had a problem with it. I got a few prices to fix it, and they all wanted almost as much as a new one. LOL So I decided to order a brand-new carb for it complete with a new plug, gas line filter, gas line plug for the tank and a few other things. Total price 30.00 with free delivery. I installed them all, and it runs nice but still not the greatest, but maybe I can touch it up a bit as I use it. I will have to see how that goes. There is always something when it comes to older machinery. The problem is, most of the new things they are making today isn’t worth a damn, being made so cheap. Oh well, what can you do? With that, I am off for some pancakes my lovely wife is making, and will then do some work in our new shower house. Take care and stay safe. GW Click on Picture Below to Enlarge.

Good Morning! It’s another cloudy day here in Port Loring, Ontario, Canada. We can expect some more rain off and on throughout the day. It is muggy outside and warm, with the temperature sitting at 20.5 C | 68.9 F. It will warm up even more as the day progresses. Highway 522 is super busy these days. Yesterday was almost non-stop campers, boats, you name it going by. But as I say, it is that time of year and things are slowly opening back up. One good thing will come out of this opening up, and a lot of people having the vaccines … We will see if the vaccines are working. If we see the numbers rise substantially, we will then know we have some other issues to deal with. So far, though, it is looking good for Ontario. Time will tell the story. This morning I had to pick up some things at Home Hardware here in town and was it busy. You know, I didn’t know one person. We have had so many new people move into our area you can’t keep track of them any more. LOL, Maybe that is a good thing. On another note my wife and I, in spite of the light showers yesterday decided to take down the last four dead old pine trees on our property. Took us all morning, but it is done. Now I can get onto other things that we have planned. Taking down trees for me is very stressful, so I am happy that job is finished. In the end my wife and I took down 14 very large trees, cut them up and cleaned up the mess. I think it will take a week to settle down my stomach, LOL. With that, I am off for my morning bowl of cereal, and maybe I will have a cup of coffee this morning for a change. We usually have a coffee after lunch. Just because we can. Take care and stay safe. GW

Good Morning Folks! It’s a cloudy day here in Port Loring, Ontario. We can expect some showers to enter into the picture and the rain will linger around for the next 4 days or so. We sure do need the rain, as it is very dry out there. The trees, plants and grass are crying for moisture. Highway 522 is very busy, which is a norm for this time of year, with all the vacationers from the cities wanting to get away. On another note, my wife and I are still busy getting things done up outside around our home. We still have to take down two smaller old dead pines, but after that we are done with the tree’s for the year, hopefully for a few years. Our life these days are stressful enough, without worrying where a tree is going to fall, and all the hassles of cleaning things up after the fact. LOL But in saying that, our property now is sure looking nice and along with it being usable, with a cottage and a place for a small camping area ready to go for family and friends. We still have a lot of other things to do like replacing our back deck and adding a small deck onto our new cottage along with making one of our back bedrooms in our home into a store where we can display my wife’s paintings along with my books and flutes. All that it takes is time and money. LOL LOL With that I am off for my morning bowl of oatmeal with my lovely wife and will then get to work. That is, if the rain holds off. Yesterday it was too windy to do much in the taking down the tree department. Take care and stay safe. It is getting better but not enough yet to let down our defences, pertaining to this virus.