BALLAD of the BACK ROAD FARMER My good wife, Sarah, as you know, Just loves her little radio, She thinks the programs are so nice, And listens to their good advice. One day she heard them say just how A radio would help a cow To feel relaxed and give more cream, And milking […]
BALLAD OF THE BACK ROAD FARMER Our parson, he has left this town So he went down To where the farms are not all stone, Where cattle are more beef than bone. He’s settled there, seems full of cheer, Though missing friends that he’d made here. Our new man came from Barbot Lake, A good […]
BALLAD OF THE BACK ROAD FARMER Well, now, the time is here again, we’ve waited for this moment when We’d start to tap the maple trees, when days are warm but nights still freeze. The snow is melting in the bush, and in the fields it’s turned to slush, That’s when I get my auger […]
BALLAD OF THE BACK ROAD FARMER The price of eggs is down again, I’m glad that I am not a hen; Just think of all the work it takes to lay an egg And then the aches from sitting on a cold, cold nest, with just some feathers for a vest. Our grain, it doesn’t […]
BALLAD OF THE BACK ROAD FARMER March is a month I love to see, the sap starts rising in the tree; the sun shines warm and melts some snow, we hope that soon it all will go. And though the wind is cold and raw, to-day I heard an old crow caw. The snow, which […]
BALLAD OF THE BACK ROAD FARMER Ah me, my bones do throb and ache – I think sometimes that they will break. My joints they seem to be filled with glue, caused by that bad old devil, flu. It sneaked up on me, some days ago, It hit me hard and laid me low, With […]
BALLAD OF THE BACKROAD FARMER Some fellers love their cigarettes, but me, I’ve never liked one yet. They burn so hot and smoke so fast, three minutes is all … one will last. And others love a good cigar, to them it is the best by far, but its aroma some call stink, a “foul […]
MEMORIES OF CJNorthHastings – from 1975 A recent news item in The Bancroft Times rekindled the memory button within my grey matter for I was among the first on-air volunteers for CJNH AM radio in North Hastings. The station was an outreach of CJBQ in Belleville. As I recall George Robinson, recently retired at that […]
THE TIMES TRAVELLER by BARNEY MOORHOUSE For Reproduction Rights call Access 1.800.893.5777 FLASHBACK – 937. December 1953 Readers may recall this item. CAR CLIMBED BRIDGE GIRDER THEN FELL 18 FEET TO FLOOR “I guess we are lucky to be alive,” was the comment by Thomas Elliott, 30, of Highland Grove, owner and driver of a […]
An Urban coyote story While out for his constitutional Mississauga resident Alex Biron saw what he took to be a coyote on the Port Credit Village Marina docks and it appeared to be ‘trapped’. Seeking some advice he called the Toronto Wildlife Centre. “They were concerned about how long it had been there, if it […]
