The joys (?) of summer.
Officially, summer arrives on June 21. I think someone forgot to tell summer that. Already this year, the area I live in has seen multiple days with the temperature over 90, and the actual day summer...
View ArticleGrow, grow, grow!
Last year, I launched into an experimental garden with my potato crop derived from a few sprouted spuds. If you read this blog, you’ll know the results were somewhat less than great. With that in mind,...
View ArticleWhat do you do with an ‘embarrassment of riches’?
I’ve written several times about my adventures in black raspberry growing. This last year, I gave away some of my harvest, but kept a fair amount for myself, planning (or I guess I should say hoping)...
View ArticlePosturing for the “Home Crowd”, or Republicans fiddle while America burns
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } There are times when it seems the only thing some politicians can do in the face of a crisis is find something else to think about. This was brought home very strongly to...
View ArticleThe death of a farm house.
Back in the heyday of the Cold War, Ray Bradbury wrote a short story that he later incorporated into his marvelous “The Martian Chronicles”. The story, “There will come soft rains”, is one of the more...
View ArticleHow things are growing.
A while back, I wrote about my latest experiment in gardening, using bags of compost as containers. As of yesterday, the pepper plant had one fair-sized pepper on it and was going through another burst...
View ArticleLiving in the Land of Unreason
Last year, a small college in Indiana made a decision to change it’s traditions. You see, through it’s history, Goshen College, a small college founded by the Mennonites, had never played the national...
View ArticleHostages
This year has been a tough one for the US. We’ve seen tornadoes plow through population centers with devastating results. Snow falls that set records both for their totals and for the cost of cleaning...
View ArticleHi ho! Hi ho! It’s off to work I go!
Yes, that’s right! In about an hour, I’ll be working again. How well (or poorly) I’ll do, I haven’t a clue, but I’ll find out shortly.
View ArticleOdd observations.
Well, after a week’s worth of work, I’m still employed, but wondering if I’ll be able to bring enough of my “A game” to really feel like I’m doing all I can. My co-workers are great, but there are...
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