Not often does a fellow columnist stir an interest in my literary line of thought. Not often do we…
Bits and Pieces
Dawg-days
Rain, rain, go away, come again some other day – are words that I never thought I’d…
Tombstone musings
The week just prior to this writing, a friend of mine, who shows up whenever I need wheels, and…
Grow your own
Since my first article appeared in this newspaper on hydrogen peroxide, I have received a deluge of…
No. No. Orica, No
What part of no don’t you understand? is a question I’m quite sure was originally…
Busy, busy, busy
If I were to say that I haven’t been busy lately, I would be stretching the truth far beyond…
Kitchen gardens III
The first on my list of annual food plants to be tucked into the soils of your garden would be, by…
Underground economy
Not often do I write an “I told you so” column, but let me suggest that you hang this…
Winters coming
This past week I have spent almost every day outside in the fresh air and sunshine. Though the…
Up, up, up
I have been toying with the 26 letters of the word-forming alphabet for more years than I care to…
Thunder
The lightning flashes and the thunder rolls as a downpour of rain splashes heavily on the overhead…
Rainy weather
“Rain, rain, go away, come again some other day” is a remembered childhood statement…
Im not kidding
“Mares eat oats And does eat oats And little lambs eat ivy, A kid will eat ivy, too,…
Hoe hoe hoe
That is not the Ho, Ho, Ho that you hear at Christmas time – I’m talking hoe, hoe, hoe…
Fair is fair
Is it fair that all fall fairs fall in the fall? That queer quirk of a query struck me as I was…