Days of hundred degrees weeks with little to no rain but the crops are hanging on! Drummer Flannagan doin their thing black blanket tucked under green crops holding tight to subsoil moisture So when the crops should look like the unwatered yards in town still, they're growin green! Soaking up the sun converting elements [...]
The theme was mostly: "We went with him". as we traveled along life's highways He certainly covered a lot of miles And he always led the pack! Like icing on our cakes he flavored our lives in stories take this one: Finishing up a tour of duty at an army camp in Kansas a [...]
Half way through a marathon a runner grabs a cup a quarter inch or water there No time to grab another he throws it down rushes on the goal still far ahead Ten miles down sixteen to go the runner knows it's not enough from top of head to tip of toes cooling sweat [...]
Early morning darkness coffee, newspaper, coffee again Waiting for the sun to whisk away nights soaking Straight sticks adorned with seeds standing at attention in long straight rows waiting for the farmer to whisk and sort and steal away food for man and beast Soybean harvest is one of waiting soy seeds so tender, [...]
Indeed they are precious! The little ones have been molded Shaped to look like us just smaller? I don't think so! Each one, every one is unique! A combination, perhaps, of mom and dad and brothers and sisters grandmas and grandpas aunts and uncles... the list goes on. Maybe they're like a huge bouquet [...]
Significant women have made statements regarding the importance of 'table'. Barbara Bush said it this way: "The most important decisions in America are made around the kitchen table." As always, Barbara's wisdom was front and center. Grandma Warfel near pioneer drew a line defining: "True friends feet have been under your table and yours [...]
Leaves drifting down, early morning, as I pop out the door to snag the paper the air engulfs me like a big wet kiss! a wet air morning for certain. Soaking my world the fields and grass are laden humidity must be a hundred A pin drop would make it rain! Far to the [...]
High on my office shelf sits a sculpture done in love Albrecht Durer's Betende Hande a labor of love by a brother for his brother who loved Just this evening I came in weary from a day of labor hands smudged with grease and dirt from a day of farming Warm water flooded my [...]
randpa rolled out at 0330 to do the livestock chores Pitch the hay down from the mow shovel the grain into cow shined troughs slap the stantions on the milk cows necks and do the milking The walk to the barn only a hundred steps was lit by stars that twinkled and by the morning [...]
An Asian culture posits a greeting with hands at sides, and a bow Another culture folks fold their hands together prayer like, and do a head nod bow Somewhere back in our ancestry swords were often present firmly gripped in one's right hand Noted by their absence an empty hand was extended to grip [...]