Opinion

I sometimes find the news business to be all-consuming. I would spend a busy day and night churning out the news, and then I would get home and fire up the computer looking for entertainment.

Talk about the dog days of summer. The weather is the same every day, not too hot, just right for moving the crop along. Some Canola in the area is almost done flowering. Another month and the guys are going to be thinking about swathing.

Dear Editor I am going to make this short and sour. You are the editor of the local paper. And you have the power to accept or reject stories for the paper. Understandable.

Ed, my neighbour next door, has been pointing from his yard at my garden and shaking his head. "While you were off camping, your garden had every kind of weed in for a party.

Dear Editor Mr. Bullocks, a Brit who spent seven years in Russia, states that Russians have been on a 50- year bender. They are drinking themselves to death. He comes up with some very startling statistics.

One of the highlights of a holiday to northern Italy was to unexpectedly find myself in what I thought was the middle of a forest of Swiss stone pine (Pinus cembra).

Sometimes, things can just fly out of left field and hit you in the head. That seems to be what happened on July 30, and I'm pretty sure both Premier Brad Wall and Finance Minister Ken Kravetz are reaching for a bottle of Tylenol.

As part of my regular housekeeping routine I make bread, albeit in far smaller quantities than before.

By the time you read this the 24-hour news cycle may have shifted to a topic other than the royal baby. I don't pay much attention to the modern way of following the news - not minute by minute, but second by second.

The moon and Jupiter will share the morning sky in Aug. 3, followed quickly by close encounters with Mars Aug. 4 and Mercury Aug. 5.