This year’s Grimsby swap meet was the first one in a while to feel “routine” to me. When we switched to the West Niagara Agricultural Centre in 2022, I found myself in a whirlwind of jobs to be done, and hopes that I wouldn’t screw something up. Don Goodfellow and I were concerned about table setup, crowd control, finding volunteers… all the back-end stuff. We managed to pull it off that year. And now, with 2026 being the fifth year at the WNAC, It finally felt like we have i

I can retire from my day job in a little over four years. I’m not quite counting the time down, but I am thinking about it more these days. Like many people who retire, I have plans. And there’s no telling how much time we get to carry out those plans. My plans are fairly specific, and I have a limited window of free time to explore them. My wife and I get along just fine, but we like a lot of different things. I’d go so far as to say that she dislikes a bunch of the things