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Moving mountains
It started, as natural disasters often do, completely without warning. Mr. Wonderful and I were enjoying a relaxing weekend morning coffee and chatting about all manner of things in that scattershot way married people have. “We need more cat food, hey did you drop off/pick up/pay that?” “How about that crazy friend on Facebook?” Somehow
Barbara Stoll wrapping up 28 years with USDA’s Farm Service Agency
Stark County Farm Service Agency Executive Director Barbara Stoll is retiring Nov. 30.
First World Problems of the scratch and dent variety
We have recently been beset by a plague of First World Problems. First World Problems are defined as issues that arise from living in an industrialized nation that pale in comparison to the real troubles of the inhabitants of less industrialized cultures. (Example: If you are living in a mud hut on a war torn
You light up my life
When Mr. Wonderful came home and lit a candle before we sat down to eat, I was noticeably touched. Such a romantic! Scratch that. False alarm. He was looking for a breeze again. Off Being married to the man who considers it his life’s work to hold on to every last bit of energy our
Ky. researchers find new wheat disease that’s problem in S. America
LEXINGTON, Ky. — University of Kentucky College of Agriculture specialists are encouraging wheat producers and crop consultants to scout their fields for a new disease that could have important implications for future crop years. UK soil scientist Lloyd Murdock found wheat blast on a single wheat head May 18, 2011, at a UK Research and
Thankfully, whip-poor-will’s song is hard to forget
“Whip-poor-will! Whip-poor-will! Whip-poor-will!” The song wakes me at first light. It’s why I keep the bedroom windows open. The song of the whip-poor-will is my favorite alarm. I suppose I value it because I hear it so rarely. Over the last 25 years, I’ve heard it just a handful of times, and just for a
Rain muddies the crop prospects
Continued rain across the Midwest dominates all thinking about marketing these days. There was virtually no progress in planting last week, and will be none expected this week.
Early visitors this year: Hummingbirds are back
Bird migration epitomizes spring. But unless you spend a lot of time outdoors with binoculars, or you really know bird songs, the players often pass through unidentified. Hummingbirds Ruby-throated hummingbirds are the exception. Hang a nectar feeder, and you’ll know when they arrive. And thanks to a Web site that maps hummers as they return,
Life puts us where we are supposed to be
“The bright sun filtered through the clouds, warming the fields of alfalfa that my father was mowing. Within a day or two it would be put into bales of hay, gathered from the field, stored in the hay loft and used to feed our livestock. I stood at the fence line with the lunch my
How Not to Get Beat Up At The Movies 101
I am a nice person. I get through most days fairly happy and not generally spoiling for a fight. I just want that on the record. Still, there are simply times when a person has just had enough. Lately, I’ve become aware that there are a few folks who could be helped by a primer
