David Hobson is a Waterloo-based writer and a freelance contributor for the Record, and can be reached by email at [email protected]. It was so hot and so dry in August it had gardeners longing for rain.

Just in time for the long Fourth of July celebration, a new firecracker makes it debut ― one that makes incurs only the sounds of a hummingbird's wings rushing in to feed. The Estrellita Little Star, ...

There was a new firecracker in town for the long Fourth of July celebration weekend and The Garden Guy couldn’t be happier. It's not the kind of firecracker to make noise (other than the sounds of ...