It’s apple harvest season with community festivals celebrating the fruit and many commercial orchards open for picking and family fun.
I’ve always been fascinated with bridges, ever since as a youngster our family drove across the Mackinac Bridge for the first time.
Why are the cardinals the last birds to leave the bird feeders at the end of the day?
“Which is better, one or two?”
I live near a phone.
They discovered the dried remains of a long-dead bird in a keepsake box.
It’s too hot, too humid, too rainy, too cramped.
No doubt many older folks are sometimes asked by their grandchildren what was their favorite fast food. Of course, the grandparents did not ha…
Continuing from last week, the Scheckel boys had plenty of wildlife all around them growing up. But every now and then there was still a surpr…
Wildlife on a farm? Yes, indeed. Not the exotic jungle animals of Africa or those of a zoo, but plenty of creatures to interest the nine Schec…
Cheap gas!
I was certain it was a trap to lure me out of hiding and bring me to justice for not turning in my slide rule.
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…
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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.