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The 2018 Union County Fair has come. And gone. The celebration of Union County’s long and rich agricultural traditions came to an end last week.
And, in keeping with tradition, yours truly took approximately 46,000 photographs during various visits to the fair during the course of the week. This...
Each of us has experienced inflation at one time or another that required us to review and change our spending habits.
However Venezuela with its currency, the Bolivar, has entered uncharted territory. Last week Venezuela reported inflation for their national currency had hit 32,714 percent...
This one falls into the category of “I probably heard about such stuff, but didn’t really pay much attention.”
Lately, I’ve been doing my daily walkabouts in the evening hours. For one thing, evenings generally have been a little bit cooler. Not less humid, mind you. Just cooler.
For another thing...
A not so itsy, bitsy spider created a not so itsy bitsy web right in front of our house one night last week.
The creation involved a sweet gum tree in our front yard and what may well be the ugliest pickup truck on the planet. The truck, by the way, is ours.
Most of the time, the truck just kind...
While each week the media floods our newspapers, television and radio with hundreds of interesting and important items, in the field of international affairs the dominant theme this past week was immigration: both legal and illegal. While most of you are aware of the topic, today we will look at...
This week, how ‘bout a fox, or two, on the run, and a little bit of magic?
One morning last week, yours truly was motoring to Anna to begin another exciting day at The Paragraph Factory, where production was slated to once again focus on stringing together some vowels and consonants into coherent,...
Oh...to be a goose...in a pond...on a hot and humid summer afternoon in Southern Illinois...
...bear with me, dear readers. Once again this week, the focus is on critters. Feathered critters. Canada gooses, to be sure.
Before we get to the topic at hand, let me revisit, one more time (and then we’...
This week, we’re gonna be whistlin’ ducksie...and doing a little bit of deer hunting...
...sorry about “gonna”...
...and “whistlin’ ducksie”...
...and, no, I did not go deer hunting, at least not in the traditional sense of the word. I’m thinking that would have been vaguely illegal.
A couple of...
Corn and soybeans. Soybeans and corn. That, in a few words, is pretty much what Illinois is all about.
Well, at least in the view of a young fellow in North Carolina.
We’ll get back to corn and soybeans in just a bit. First, an update: you will note that there is a picture of a bird, of some kind,...
G’day, duck.
One evening last week, yours truly stepped outdoors...and was instantly reminded that Southern Illinois can get rather hot and humid during the summer time.
So hot and humid, as a matter of fact, that I actually saw dragonflies which were breathing fire. Sorry. That probably doesn’t...
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