TOP VIEWS
A 50-year career By: Jerry Nelson 05/22/2012 @ 7:40am

One spring, back when I was a little kid, the gear box went to heck on Dad’s John Deere corn planter. Time was of the essence. Nothing ever breaks down until you really, really ...

0 Comments Reply
Ready for simple By: Brent Olson 05/15/2012 @ 9:45am

I’m ready for some simple. Life has been feeling pretty complicated and there’s really only one solution for that.Less.That feeling rolls across me every now and then.  ...

0 Comments Reply
Weather man By: Jerry Nelson 05/14/2012 @ 9:08am

I recently bought one of those whiz-bang weather station gizmos. This type of purchase doesn’t exactly scream “look out ladies, this guy might be too studly for you!” It’s ...

0 Comments Reply
Cats By: Brent Olson 05/08/2012 @ 7:59am

Okay, first of all, I don’t hate cats.  For pete’s sake, I live on a farm, where I raised two daughters and now have three granddaughters who visit on a regular ...

0 Comments Reply
Graduation season By: Jerry Nelson 05/08/2012 @ 7:57am

Graduation season is here once again, that time of the year when many of our nation’s youth don goofy gowns and silly hats and promenade about in public.I find this troubling ...

0 Comments Reply
Order of the Arrow By: Brent Olson 05/02/2012 @ 10:00am

I was never Order of the Arrow material.  But it was a long time ago; I should probably just let it go.I had kind of a checkered career as a Boy Scout.  For one thing ...

0 Comments Reply
Angelina Macaroni By: Jerry Nelson 05/02/2012 @ 9:51am

My email inbox recently held a message from a young lady who hails from Argentina. And no, she wasn’t offering me a terrific deal on a sheep farm in the Falkland Islands.The ...

0 Comments Reply
Feeling like a farmer By: Brent Olson 04/24/2012 @ 7:51am

I’m feeling like a farmer today.  I’ve beaten the weather twice this year and it’s only April.Of course, the stakes aren’t really all that high.  I hauled in a ...

0 Comments Reply
It's Harvey's fault By: Jerry Nelson 04/17/2012 @ 7:43am

The way I see it, the blame rests squarely on the shoulders of one Harvey Metzger.I first met Harvey, who dairy farms with his family in northwestern Iowa, a few years back. To ...

0 Comments Reply
Exercise By: Brent Olson 04/10/2012 @ 11:06am

My son-in-law is a runner.  Last weekend when they were visiting, he left early in the morning for some exercise.  With a strong wind blowing in his face, he headed down ...

0 Comments Reply
Election year By: Brent Olson 03/27/2012 @ 10:00am

I was a pig farmer for thirty years.  I don’t mean to brag, and I’m not going to give any details, but I fairly regularly faced tasks that would gag a goat.Another line ...

0 Comments Reply
Food By: Brent Olson 03/20/2012 @ 10:44am

My wife hasn’t been feeling well.That’s bad news for me.Oh, of course, I feel bad for her, too.  Poor baby and all that stuff, but let’s focus on what really matters.No ...

0 Comments Reply
Pillows By: Brent Olson 03/13/2012 @ 8:03am

I need some help with gender issues.What’s the deal with pillows?I have nothing against pillows, in moderation, but I think the female of the species may lack judgment when it ...

0 Comments Reply
Science fair season By: Jerry Nelson 03/13/2012 @ 8:02am

It’s that time of the year when high school gymnasiums are thronged with excited young people. Palms sweat, mouths go dry and a visible fog of teenaged angst and anticipation ...

0 Comments Reply
Our septic saga By: Jerry Nelson 03/05/2012 @ 10:02am

The phrase “water in the basement” elicits a deep sense of dread in every homeowner. Those four little words could make even Rambo quail and wail. My wife recently mentioned ...

0 Comments Reply
Tax season By: Brent Olson 02/23/2012 @ 9:52am

Tax season can be tough on a guy; I practically bled to death just from adding machine tape. I should probably explain. There’s a calculator on the left side of my ...

0 Comments Reply
Shopping By: Brent Olson 02/13/2012 @ 10:16am

We visited our daughter in St. Paul over the weekend.  As we were standing in her apartment, I asked, “What should we do?”She looked at me and said, “Well, the last ...

1 Comments Reply
Old age barnacles By: Brent Olson 02/07/2012 @ 8:15am

My wife made me get a…thing…cut off my wrist.  It was just a little bump, shaped kind of like Australia, but she thought it was getting bigger and changing color.  I ...

0 Comments Reply
Work By: Brent Olson 01/24/2012 @ 9:23am

We had a tonsillectomy in the family last week and my wife spent a couple days out of town, assigned to kid-wrangling duties.  I called, just to see how things were going ...

0 Comments Reply
Valentine's Day dilemmas By: Jerry Nelson 01/23/2012 @ 10:04am

That critical February date is fast arriving, a day which will end with the thrill of victory for some and the agony of defeat for others.No, I don’t just mean Super Bowl ...

0 Comments Reply
Previous | 
« May 2012 »
S M T W T F S
29 30 1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31 1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9