Showing posts with label midwest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label midwest. Show all posts
Saturday, April 17, 2021

Jack's Pulpit

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Yesterday I led a quick guest tour of the property, including Waterfall #1, Waterfall #5, and "the beach." Sloshing our way up a r...
Saturday, April 13, 2019

Rainbow Chaser

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Thursday afternoon's high winds became a brief thunderstorm about 7 p.m., and as I drove the last lap home across floodplain, a tall, ...
Saturday, March 16, 2019

Undaunted

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Emma was born in 1892, and in 1980 I lived in her basement and she gave me a 1940 seafood cookbook pamphlet, me being a Midwesterner livin...
Sunday, January 26, 2014

The Nest

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I fitted out one room to live in and keep warm in while propane prices do whatever they want; just leave me out of it. I will NOT pay a pe...
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Sunday, October 20, 2013

The Recipe Box Collection

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 Housekeeper Debbie and I spent two days cleaning and winterizing the Divine Cabin, now 85 years old with cracks in the foundation big eno...
Saturday, March 23, 2013

Midwestern Graffiti

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Back East where I used to live, when a car window or a truck was dirty or dusty as they so often are in late winter, people wrote vivid an...
Monday, July 2, 2012

Drought's First Casualty

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I heard "CRAACK!" and turned just in time to see this fully-leafed branch from the huge twin oak peel off and land, completely ...
Sunday, July 1, 2012

Welcome to Utopia

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Carol invited me to stay with her at the Poet's House, 404 Granary Street, in New Harmony, Indiana, population 800, founded in 1814 b...
Thursday, April 12, 2012

Threatening Sky

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In our corner of eastern Missouri we're all still so shell-shocked by the tornadoes that tore a concourse off the airport last year an...
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Saturday, September 17, 2011

The Middle West

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Fall is Church Supper Time in rugged rural Missouri; praise the Lord for ham, potato salad, slaw, green beans, white beans (savory not sweet...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

Th*ngs Demetrius Used to Say

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"I'm so glad people are much more polite to me than I am to them ." "I speak on the phone. Others yack on the phone...
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Sunday, March 6, 2011

Bring Back the Wooden Picnic Table!

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At Dickey Bub's a patient man named Lowell looked at the long and rusty 1/4-inch-wide wood screw in my outstretched palm and said, ...
Monday, May 31, 2010

Ma and Pa

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Both these people started out in difficult circumstances, on farms without amenities, and because of The War, got shaken up like dice and sc...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

First Hummer of 2010

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Approximate arrival date of my hummingbirds is usually 24 April. But I'm so eager to see them, so hopeful, I filled and hung the hummer ...
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Sunday, June 21, 2009

Dinner is Served

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Knights of Columbus barbecued in the parking lot by the ballfields today, and at dusk I got my dinner there, and would like to share it with...
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Monday, May 25, 2009

Midwestern First-Date Advice

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A third drink before dinner shows a lack of respect for oneself AND one's date. At such piggish behavior, put $10 on the table and leave...
Sunday, September 7, 2008

Black Blue Butterfly

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Trying to ID this butterfly for you, I googled "black butterfly," "black with blue," "black with iridescent blue,...
Saturday, June 28, 2008

Midwest Scarce on Hummingbirds

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No hummers. Day after day, I watch my three feeders. Usually they're buzzing with five or six dive-bombing rubythroat males and elegantl...
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Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Backwoods Beachfront

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You wouldn't know by looking, but this house was once a beachfront house, and it's sitting on a fortune. Aeons ago a shallow lake co...
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