It’s a rainy morning here in Port Loring, Ontario. The rain will bring things along like the grass, trees, and flowers. It is nice watching things wake up after a long winters sleep. Highway 522 is bare and wet this morning and quiet. Through the day we are seeing a few new people moving into the area. The virus is still pretty bad here in town, with a lot of people being sick.

Yesterday, my wife and I got our outside shower house all set up for summer. I still have to hook up the water to the cottage, but I can do that when a nicer day is upon us. The gas prices are still very high, sitting around the $2.00 a Litre mark in North Bay, some places are a touch lower. On the reserve, they are sitting at around $1:72 a Litre. And I suspect it will remain high with summer entering into the picture, The Powers That Be likes to capitalize on everyone enjoying their holidays. The thing is, there is no reason for it to be so high here in Canada, where we have more natural resources than most other countries. What we need to be doing is building our own refineries, so we can be more self efficient. At the moment, we let the USA refine our oil, along with a few other countries. It’s no wonder other countries look at us as a joke. They are laughing all the way to the bank.

Anyway that is my rant for this rainy morning Ha Ha.

Today I will be working away in my woodworking shop on some more one of a kind items for our gift shop that we hope will be opening at the end of May. We will see how this virus is doing here in town when the time comes. I did light the wood stove this morning to take out the dampness and warm the shop up a bit. Makes things nicer. No black flies as yet. So with that, I am off for a boiled egg and a piece of toast that my lovely wife is making for me. Stay safe. GW

Here it is May 1st starting another month. Boy time sure flies by let me tell you. Or it sure seems that way. Starting things off, it is still pretty nice temperature wise in the early morning hours with the temperature sitting at 9.5 C | 49.1 F. It will warm up a lot as the day progresses. But the not so good part is we can expect some rain off and on for the next three days. Our temperatures should remain above the freezing mark at nights now for the rest of the summer. At least I hope they do as I am planning on turning on the water to our cottage and our out buildings today. That is, if I can beat the rain. Highway 522 is bare and dry at the moment, which will make travelling pretty nice today. There are a lot of campers moving into our area, along with a lot of cars and trucks I don’t recognize. Sign of what is to come.

On another note, my lovely wife and I worked all day outside yesterday. I dug and pulled out a huge pine tree and re-planted it in a spot where it can grow without bothering anything, like power lines, phone lines, and our driveway. It took a bit of doing, but we managed to get it moved. I kind of think I am getting a bit too old to be doing these things. At least my body says so. My mind now, it says go for it. Ha Ha.

We also cemented in a new post for our clothes line, as the old tree we had it hooked to isn’t in the greatest shape. We will see how that goes as I had a hard time getting a deep enough hole to put the post in being so close to the rocks at the back of our house. Might have to do some thinking on things if it doesn’t work. I will see when I go out this morning if the cement that I put around the post will hold it solid.

With that, I am off for a bowl of cereal this morning and a cup of coffee on our front porch with my little woman. It’s been quite nice out there for the past three days. No black flies as yet. The grass is starting to grow, and I suspect it will need mowing in about two weeks. Just one more thing to add to our weekly things to do. Have a great day, enjoy the sunshine while it lasts and stay safe. It’s amazing how many people are sick in our town. But It’s to be expected with hardly no one wearing masks or keeping their distance anymore. I for the life of me can’t see what the problem is in wearing a mask, LOL Keeps you safe, and protects you from all kinds of things … What can be better than that?