Tomorrow is my operation and it reminds me, until this prostate business, I haden't been in a hospital for fifty years. (Not counting vi...

The weather for this week is rain. I think all week. We had a couple of good days last week, where we were able to cut the grass. I wanted t...

That's it, the election is over. The silent majority will be quiet for another four years, or maybe five. With a majority, they can scre...

We sometimes think the Americans are fairly dumb, as to their preception of Canada. There is a lot of truth to it, especially when you see t...

Gee, I haven't written anything here for a week. Time does fly. Especially when you're older. True. The temp. today is 0C/32F and it...

What am I doing up at 5:AM? And to top it off, I look out the window, and the ground is white. Maybe that happens every night, and by the ti...

Arizona is the only state in the United States that does not recognize daylight savings. Saskatchewan is the only Canadian province that d...

Quake Shakin' Up Young Readers! Electric Shorts Hi! If you are reading this, you have found the next best place to get super fantast...

All over, American kids are crying out, “I don’t like to read!” What they really mean is I don’t want to read THAT! Electric Shorts is de...

Welcome to Quake. You’re probably wondering where we got the name for this division of Echelon Press LLC. It’s pretty simple, really. Having...

I wrote a nice long blog the other day, posted it and it never came up. That CNBC is disgusting. The other day, all they could talk about ...

I'm convinced spring is on its way. Yesterday, Home Depot had a full page ad for lawn mowers. That must be a good sign. Todays newspaper...

Temp -3C/27F  Windchill -9C/16F  and it is nice and sunn otside. So now they are warning us food prices are going up. They talk like price...

Temp. is 0C/32F. That one is easy. Most of the snow is gone, thanks to the rain. I'm glad I'm not living in northern New Brinswick. ...

Temp is 7C/45F and windchill feels the same. It appears they only put the windchill in if it's below 0C. In the newspaper, it must be ...

Today it's 3C/37F and feels like  -2C/28F. It was supposed tp rain, but now it's changed to tomorrow. Ever wonder what happens to ...

Temp. -10C/14F  Feels like -17C/1F It is supposed to be getting warmer this week. I read  that in British Columbia prison inmates want to ...

Ate a quarter of a cheese bagle this AM. Yuck! Darn cold out this morning. -14C/7F and windchill is -19C/-2F. And the sun is shining. Here...

Out on the lawn, there rose such a clatter, I jumped from my bed, to see what was the matter. And what to my wondering eyes did I see, A ...

♫ I couldn't sleep at all last night ♫ Tossing & turning ♫ A song based on fact rather than fiction. Temp is -12C/10F windchill i...