Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Columnist Judith Sutherland shares tidbits from a good read, and a good soul-searching.
oats

Bryce Angell shares why he loathes oatmeal in his latest poem.
lime

The dry conditions across many parts of Ohio provide an opportunity to take soil samples and apply lime where needed. 

More than 350 delegates and guests from 22 countries gathered for the 21st International Farm Management Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Marking another first for me, the mom who could be a grandmother by now, I smoothed down the drama and trauma of missing my youngest daughter's recent visit to the family doctor.

It's hard for me to accept something that was new in my lifetime becoming a classic. From my tail-end-of-the-baby-boomers perspective, compared to the antics of Crosby, Kaye, and Clooney in White Christmas, the animated escapades in A Charlie Brown Christmas are new.
hands

Give kindness where we can. It seems so small, but it is our only hope of making the world a better place.

A rap on my kitchen door told me that our neighbor Zoe was outside. She's developed a bold, persistent knock, probably because there is such a delay before one of us answers.
Item No. 1246

Keith Greathouse, of Uniontown, Ohio, submitted Item No. 1246. The jaws open up and clamp down when contact is made.
John Deere planter in action

Shortly after he turns 86 on April 10, Eugene Glock will begin planting his 70th corn crop on the Butler County, Nebraska, farm he operates with his son.