I was skipping across the yard.
My Grandma Waller was born in 1886 on a farm in Dakota Territory. Her family spent the decade of the 1880s on this homesteaded farm where thre…
And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” Genesis 1:20
I didn’t have to herd cats.
Angry hailstones the size of bowling balls had battered my poor car.
Hasenpfeffer, Euchre, Hucklybuck, Sheepshead and Pepper.
In the 1950s, the teen lads in FFA at Seneca High School, in the heart of Crawford County, learned how to test the butterfat content of milk. …
Who hasn’t had a flat tire?
My body’s check engine light came on.
When does a calf become a cow? is a question often asked by kids and city people.
Teachers did not have much of a problem with discipline at the Oak Grove School that I attended from 1948-1956. There were no big city temptat…
I gave a collection of “Gunsmoke” TV show DVDs to a friend going through a rough patch. A rough patch is how I describe things I don’t want to…
Whenever I see an auction ad in a newspaper that begins “Spring Farm Equipment Sale”, I still feel eager anticipation. Inevitably, my thoughts…
I accomplished a great deal in the last 12 months.
She had been the sickly one of a large herd.
There are marvels all over the world, but sometimes one need only look out your back door to find new ones.
History and geology sometimes come together to tell fascinating stories, such as the rocky outcrop just outside of Galesville known as Decorah Peak.
I pulled some old clothes from the closet the other day because I had some chores to do.
I heard a joke at the local café in Clinton the other day.
Winter found Dad and the Scheckel boys in the woods in the 1940s and 1950s on our 238-acre Oak Grove Ridge farm outside of Seneca in the heart…
Ski jumping was a natural activity in the southwestern part of Wisconsin since it was settled largely by Norwegians starting in 1848. By the t…
The latest controversy we are hearing about across the USA is the pandemic crisis; should we get the shot or shouldn’t we? The newest ailment …
When I was 10 years old, I was having some trouble socializing and getting along with my brothers and sisters. Mom and Dad had their hands ful…
The Northern Pineries and the resulting lumber businesses played a big part in the founding of pioneer farms in Wisconsin.
Look closely at the 1915 photograph: Father, Mathias Scheckel, and his wife Catherine, surrounded by their 16 children. All became farmers or …
Nothing is wrapped in family tradition as much as the culture of Christmas.
The weather was up to something. It always is.
With today’s dress in schools it is unbelievable that the blue jean situation caused unrest in Kiel High School, Kiel, Wis., in the 1950s. Up …