Columns

While some of the memories seem like yesterday, the doors of Listowel’s most famous watering hole, Modeans, have been closed for over a decade. 

We are now almost back to normal with our meat draws. The hardest thing is remembering to put a mask back on when you get up to claim your prize.

Loosely keeping up with my theme of commentaries on historical vessel tragedies as of late, my fourth instalment on the subject will be of a slightly different variety this week.

I am not a soccer fan.

It was a heck of a week for Listowel’s Corey Conners.

It looks as if getting the new drug called Aduhelm will be almost impossible to get for several reasons that I do not consider reasonable. But, I won’t go there now – more to come in the future, I hope. This column is about what do I do in the meantime.

As the headline of this column suggests, I didn’t realize that there are not two but three dogs in my house. Sort of.

Last Sunday, the Walkerton Legion restarted the Catch the Ace Draw with a jackpot sitting at $10,211. Since President Rose is not allowed to buy tickets, she rolled the basket and pulled out a ticket purchased by Kellie O’Hagan of Walkerton.

Being at the beach for a few days last week, I had plenty of time to gaze out over the blue waters of Lake Huron and be thankful that I wasn’t way out there myself, out of visual range of the shore. The thought never fails to give me the willies.

As someone married to an “out-of-towner,” I quite often find myself playing six degrees of separation with my wife.

I recently learned that when a butterfly is struggling to get out of the cocoon and you cut the cocoon, or in some way try to help it out, the butterfly dies. It has to be left to struggle because the struggle to escape the cocoon forces blood into its wings so it can spread them and be able to fly.

As the end of another long school year comes to an end and the temperature continues to rise, I know a lot of us have been catching ourselves daydreaming about our fun-filled summer plans.

In the previous column, I talked about a ‘new normal’ after the current pandemic ends. I had my second Pfizer shot last Saturday and, in two weeks, I should be fully vaccinated.