Oops'nstuff

The Environment Canada forecast is informing us of the continuation of this late summer/early fall heat wave. Today will be a scorcher, with...

Several Saturdays back when we took a pleasant early afternoon trip out to Merrickville on a very warm waning-summer day, we poked about at ...

Lovely long week-end here, the weather co-operating nicely, with clear blue skies, bit of a wind and sun, plenty of it. Enough, at 28 degree...

Existence is full of mysteries. Things that are, things that occur, things that puzzle us for which there appears to be no reasonable explan...

No lack of oops! moments of late. From discovering that someone opened a full carton of fresh milk when the already-opened one wasn't de...

The subtle but unmistakable signs of approaching fall remind us that the leisure summer days we've been enjoying are now limited. Night-...

The geology of the Ottawa Valley is a groundwork based on Leda clay and sand, a truly unfortunate combination. Leda clay is hugely unstable;...