Quietly Retired on Waughs River

Quietly Retired on Waughs River

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Gone Fishing

Gone Fishing circa 2005  The Light I missed my daughter’s birthday this year and it wasn’t for the first time. During my working days even pressing business would not have that prevented me from sharing special days with my family .No this special milestone was missed because I had to get into my canoe and […]

A True Bargain

Circa 2002 The Light I am not looking forward to another drive to Truro. Worse than the drive itself will be the traffic to deal with. Robie Street will be crazy, bumper to bumper chaos. It will stretch all the way from Zellers to the Irving. You only had to see the color picture and […]

Making Soup

Tomorrow night at the Fables Club in Tatamagouche, three of us are making our favorite soups for 35 guests. Three Soup Night is a co-sponsored event between Fables and Slow Food “North Shore”. I will making Caldo Verde or as most people refer to it, Lisboa Soup. An everyday soup from Portugal. This light melange […]

Is Spring just around the Corner?

When is Cold , Cool? circa 2004 The Light The thermometer outside my kitchen window indicates 10, but then a voice on the radio announces that because of the wind, humidity and a fast-moving front from Quebec it will soon feel like 56,000 degrees below zero. And I thought that our February blizzard was the […]

Today’s Picture

This is Roosevelt. All of our cats for the last twenty yeares have been given Presidential names. It all started with Kennedy, then Nixon followed by Clinton who had to go to the Vet to be neutered. Bush was with us for several years and Roosevelt came to stay as a guest because his new […]

Next Story

Over the past twenty years I have written scores of short stories. Many are humorous, none are truly sad and all of them are between 1200 and 1500 hundred words. Characters or themes come and go but a few are real keepers to to speak. Murphy is top of the list. Our Springer Spaniel has […]

First Story

The Hen that wasn’t ready to give up the Ghost. circa 2000, first published in The Light Retirement allows one to take on new hobbies. In my case I thought that a few hens running around the garden would be nice. They would fill the gap now that the stress and strain of nine to […]

Fresh Start to an Old Story

Hello from my new Web Page  ” Quietly Retired on Waugh’s River” Many of you will be somewhat familar with the short stories or yarns that I have written over the past 15 years or so. In the beginning they were in The Light and of late they could be found in The Colchester Weekly […]