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71Lawn Gone
Used to be, my neighbours would cast dubious looks at my yard from their own expanses of green. Now, they’re asking me for advice. This spring a ban on cosmetic use of herbicides, fungicides and insecticides came into effect. Their lawns are...
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69The History of the Persian in Northwestern Ontario
Unless you’ve lived in Northwestern Ontario, you’ve probably never heard of this dessert. It’s a delicious sweet bun topped with creamy icing, called a persian, and it has become legendary among expatriates. Art Bennett, founder of...
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67OVER THE STRAITS OF MACKINAC
Mackinaw City, in Northern Michigan, has the trappings of a typical resort town for summer tourists: hotel strip, sand beaches, tee-shirt and candy stores, mini-putts and a big marina where gawkers are...
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64Laser versus Ink Jet Printers
If you print large amounts in black-and-white and are using an ink jet printer, you can save a considerable amount of money, and get better quality prints too, by switching to a laser printer. I had been buying a new ink cartridge for the printer...
2 comments56Living with Wild Things
Another neighbourhood cat has disappeared. We don’t know where to find her, but her disappearance is not a mystery. This summer many residents have noticed foxes in their yards, and even spotted...
0 comments60Everything I Know about Access I Learned from the Paper Clip Guy
You don’t have to know how to write code to create and manage databases to handle your contact lists, book, video and music collections, sports memorabilia, or virtually any other information need. This...
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57GLOBALIZATION REVERSES DIRECTION
In his book, Why Your World is about to Get a Whole Lot Smaller, Jeff Rubin predicts that energy costs will take off when the recession ends, and this will reverse the globalization trend. I hope he’s...
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45Sure fire method of outlining and finishing a novel
After five years of slogging I’ve completed my first novel and I know without a doubt what enabled me to reach this point - the point where I'm ready to face the publishers. Along the way I gave a lot of...
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62How to Enjoy a Sauna by Lake Superior
HOW TO ENJOY A SAUNA BY LAKE SUPERIOR There’s nothing like a hot sauna followed by a cold splash in Lake Superior. This week we enjoyed our first of the season. Our sauna is a two room building made of spruce and located behind our camp...
1 comment63WHY I LOVE DATABASES
WHY I LOVE DATABASES - AND YOU SHOULD TOO It’s hard to get people to use databases. They’re happy with word processing, and warm up quickly to spreadsheets, like Excel. But the learning curve...
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