A moment to remember Fat Albert, who was actually as skinny as the sandhill cranes that bugled from his cornfields.  I sat in his living room one day while he…View post

Yesterday I Twittered (and Facebooked) that I was boiling apples in order to get the pigs to eat them.  Several folks wondered how much it was costing to boil apples…View post

…and my father the farmer, and my mother the nurse, and my sister-in-law the dump truck driver, and my brother-in-law the machinist, and my sister the factory worker: I have…View post

Interview I did back during COOP tour will re-air today on WUWM’s “Lake Effect” at 10 a.m. and 11 p.m. (CST) today.  I recall I was overtired and spoke mostly…View post

Rain when we woke, gray skies, fed the pigs and chickens several bags of old bread and buns from the bakery outlet because we’re out of feed, so it’s off…View post