Hi there! Churchville residents seem to be happier these days with their village life.  Over a dozen years or so we have been anxious about the busy traffic flow.  When out mowing our front lawn, I would often count 40 plus cars per hour zooming past our house on their way to work in the morning or returning home at the end of their day.  Our road was...

Happy Leap Day Everyone! Little brown and beige sparrows always seem to confuse me.  The other day when grocery shopping, surprisingly, I spied one on the floor scrounging around for a few crumbs while a couple of his relatives were flitting about up in the ceiling. How did they get in the grocery store? Normally, we see these God creatures in our backyard in...

Valentine greetings in advance to everyone! Do you know what a “berm” is?  It is an artificial embankment made of earth according to the dictionary.  At the beginning of this month, we were bombarded with a great deal of rain (imagine that in January!).  Our Credit River overflowed its banks. I’m sure our neighbours across the street were thankful for...

Happy New Year Everyone! Today Gary is celebrating his 75th birthday – the last day of 2019 and a tax write-off for his parents way back when.  It is hard to believe that he has reached this milestone in his life.  He still doesn’t know how to spell “retire.”  After his scare last spring over experiencing quadruple by-pass surgery he now feels younger...

Christmas Blessings from Our Home to Yours! Over the past few months four black squirrels have decided to fling themselves boldly from one of our evergreens in our backyard to another, a span of about eight feet.  I gasp every time I see them take on this dare devil fete as I am sure one of them will hit the ground unexpectedly.  Maybe they are trying to...

Quid et Quo Greetings! “Quid pro quo” is a Latin phrase we have been bombarded with over this past month from our neighbours to the south. Can you say it five times? Even experienced news reporters and politicians catch their tongues stumbling over it. I barely remember anything from my high school days when I did manage to pass Latin. The translation, however, is...

Hi there! The salmon are back in Churchville; it’s their time to return.  Gary and I stood on our bridge over the Credit River one evening last week at dusk and spied two three-foot gray salmon fighting against the strong current in the lower, dark water. They were travelling upstream to a spawning spot after three years of maturing in Lake Ontario.  The...