Opinion

This week I packed my suitcase, stocked a small cooler with food, gathered up my laptop along with a pile of printed notes and then I left. After months of waffling I'd finally made the decision to head out of town.

Have you ever wondered what the plants look like that produce some of the tropical fruits you may have on hand? These days Google provides easy answers to questions like that, but a more satisfying path is to grow it yourself.

Dear Editor In December I had the pleasure of travelling with Dr. Tom Wolf to Regina for a meeting at which he was speaking. We got talking about the CUplex in the Battlefords and how impressed Tom was when he experienced the facility.

Dear Editor A white piece of paper, hanging on the bulletin board in the Neilburg post office lobby, caught my eye.

Ed, my neighbour next door, has a remarkable constitution and attitude. This last week we had wind chills ranging from -40 C to -50 C. It seemed to me that, in that time, I froze up along with my van and neither of us will thaw out.

Dear Editor We have, along with most of the Western World, a system of government that we like to call "democratic.

Ahhhh, a January thaw! Nothing shortens a winter better than a January thaw. The days are now noticeably longer and for a change, it's not 30 below. That was some wind back on Wednesday going up to 100 kilometres an hour.

I'm not really sure whether it falls into my journalistic professionalism to give public accolades in my editorial but to heck with the rules, I'm going to anyways.

All-America Selections (www.All-AmericaSelections.org), a non-profit organization, has been testing and providing unbiased recommendations for new flower and vegetable varieties for more than 80 years.

I type this under a burned out pot lamp in our family room. It's one of nine incandescent spot lamps in the room. And since it is Dec. 29, I theoretically have two days left to replace it before incandescent bulbs are banned for new sale.