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