It’s the Little Things They showed their pretty heads this week. After a cold and snowy winter, the crocuses, and the snowdrops magically showed their lovely heads and broke winter’s spell – at least for a while. One day the ground was covered with snow, then the snow melted and brown, muddy dirt was all that… Read More »
It’s About Time Well. here it is again… the weekend of the time change. Just last year I learned that calling daylight saving time, “Daylight Savings Time”, with an s at the end, is horribly stupid, dumb, and incorrect. They say it makes me look like an idiot to everyone who knows better. Daylight Savings Time… Read More »
In Like a Lamb The wet, freezing, morose winds of winter must have eyes and those eyes must have been looking at a calendar because, on the first day of March, those harsh winds of winter ceased, and March came in like a lamb. The walks and ways and forest trails that were just last week… Read More »
The Greatest Man I’ve Ever Known On February 26, 1971, the greatest man I have ever known passed away. And though he passed away that bitter February night, he lives on in my heart and in my memory. There hasn’t been a day that has gone by in these last fifty years that I have… Read More »
February is the Longest Month of the Year February is the longest month of the year. And here I am stuck smack dab in the middle of February. The calendar says that February is the shortest month but it seems like the longest month to me. February this year, like most years, has twenty-eight days. By… Read More »
Winter in Farm Country It’s been brutally cold here for a brutally long time. I haven’t seen the ground for weeks – it’s been buried under a foot of snow. It’s boring here in farm country in winter. And this year, with the pandemic still in full vigor, it’s even more boring – if… Read More »