A few years ago, my husband and I spent our weekends driving around looking for a retirement property. We wanted to relocate to the Blue…
There’s nothing quite as frustrating as having some know-it-all tell you why your cucumbers aren’t getting bigger than pickles, or why your tomatoes look like…
Today, the Great Plains is an area of great resources and beauty. Nevertheless, during past days and even current times, because of its size and…
A Tribute to John Barleycorn John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, ‘Twill make your…
Ozark banana. Quaker delight. Asimoya. Hillbilly mango. This relatively obscure fruit goes by many regional names, pawpaw being the most common. The humble pawpaw (Asimina triloba)…
Perhaps not surprisingly, some of the strangest things Out There are things that you don’t even see. The whippoorwill, or whip-poor-will, is a prime example. …
Different portions of society consider differing seasons as the “busy time”. For retailers, it might be the Christmas season. For farmers, it’s spring planting and…
“Oh, this is beautiful!” I sighed. My fiancé had brought me out to his property in the neighboring state several months before we married. It…
Words like cold-blooded, venomous, slithery, and cunning come to mind. Not very many living creatures hold such a place of respect, awe, and downright fear…
As we left our home in the city, where my beautiful wife, our well-mannered children, and I spent the last eight years of our lives,…
Bats are among the most misunderstood creatures on the planet. For centuries, these flying mammals have been associated with evil and death and reviled as…