Brother, can you spare a dime?
One of the oldest truisms in agriculture noted that "when farmers make money, everybody in town makes money.
Houses have their own stories to tell
A house may sometimes be more than just a home, but a tangible part of history. The house in which
Don’t just sit around this winter
When I opened the computer file that holds the farm calendar of events we print each week, I glanced at the little numbers that tell me how long the file is in column-inch terms.
Closing the door on the holidays
Make no mistake: down the road, we will pay for the prolonged January thaw which blessed us for so many days.
Not ready to let go of ‘early us’ cat
He's always been less a lover, more a fighter. We bought him almost 15 years ago, in our early dating days when buying a cat together was still giddily committed, "hey look at us, we're a FAMILY!" We found him in a pet shop, stuck in a cage in a roomful of barking dogs, eyes wide, fur on end.
A Bowl a Day…
I was a volunteer at the elementary school library when I first learned of the cholesterol- lowering affects of oatmeal.
You really need to do a balance sheet
Yes, it is time to take inventories and prepare balance sheets.
Worry doesn’t get a holiday
I knew all those years of selfishly tossing aside those urban legend chain letter e-mails that warned of dire consequences if I did not forward said chain letter to dozens of my friends posthaste would come to haunt me.
Happy New Year! Thoughts for the New Year
The sunrise lit up the bare winter branches along Route 11 for a beautiful view I would have missed had I gone home the night before and had I not been ill on New Year's Day.
Happy cotton pickin’ New Year
While other prophets and forecasters fill the first week of January - and endless inches of newspaper space - with predictions of what will happen this year, permit me 600 or so words to predict what won't happen in 2008.
