Feel free to advertise any item you wish to sell or purchase on this page. The item should be nature related and can include a broad range of items from binoculars, field guides, etc. to canoes, kayaks, and even sailboats. If you have an item to advertise, simply e-mail me the details for consideration. Advertisers are responsible for their own financial arrangments. Please include an e-mail address where people may contact you and the nearest town or village where your item is located. To place an ad, simply contact Terry Sprague. There is no charge for this service. If you are looking for general merchandise related to the outdoors, also try looking under "Where To Look For What In the County" .
FOR SALE: Kayak Paddles
Traditional Greenland style kayak paddles. Hand made in South Bay, Prince Edward County. Custom made to your specifications - spruce, pine or cedar. For more information, contact: Grenville Wilkinson
Just published in August, 2009. Silhouettes & Reminiscing. An 80-page book of poems, written by Nola Sprague of Prince Edward County. Separated into three different sections, the book is a compilation of Nola’s best efforts, divided into Early Beginnings, Influential Experiences, and Nature’s Themes. The collection of 35 poems looks at her life growing up in the community of Coe Hill, south of Bancroft, with poems like ‘Northern Pioneer', ‘The Blue Glass Beads’ and ‘This Old House.’
The book then merges into topics which have further inspired her such as ‘Tribute To A Barn’, ‘Kente Bay’, ‘Motherhood’ and 'Oh My Son.’ Influenced somewhat by her naturalist husband, Terry Sprague, Nature’s Themes offers such poems as ‘Walking With Nature’, ‘Travellers of the Woods’, and ‘The Old Maple Tree’. The book is illustrated with more than 40 black and white photos.
Silhouettes and Reminiscing is available from the author at $15/book, or by mail at $20/book (includes postage and handling).
“Up Before Five – the Family Farm” by Terry Sprague is a humorous look at an era of growing up on a small farm at Big Island, on the shore of the Bay of Quinte, near Demorestville. It is 200 pages containing stories of ornery cows, spring tillage, baling hay, picking tomatoes and doin’ chores. Sprinkled in among the misadventures are a few sad stories of losing beloved family pets and the tragic crash of a jet plane, only a few fields away. Included, are stories of school days with one teacher for all grades, and how one of those teachers had a love of nature that was infectious. It is the story of a father and a mother, and their two kids, who learned to drive tractor at the age of nine, toiled and laughed in the fields together, and sat down to a meal, together.
“Up Before Five” is a nostalgic look at how farming was done in the 1950s to 1970s, when “we all got up before five, to work the family farm, together”. It was an era of neighbour helping neighbour and dropping in unexpectedly for a social visit, and impromptu family picnics. This book serves to preserve that disappearing era, when the farm was a friend, a business, and actually a place where one could escape the day to day problems. The 60 black and white photos are from the family archives. The full colour cover was designed by Milford artist, Sacha Warunkiw.
Each birdhouse is built to provide safety and security to our backyard friends. The design includes a predator guard, ventilation, drainage, and can be opened for yearly cleaning.
The entrance is 1 1/2 inches in diameter which is ideal for attracting Eastern Bluebirds as well as various other cavity nesters.
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