Yield, Milo

This is about my favorite time of the year. Why? My two favorite colors — purple and yellow — are everywhere I look, regardless...

A week ago my near life-long buddy, ol’ Canby Handy from Platte City, Mo., and his son-in-law, Kiwi Bourne from Smithville, Mo., called and...

A farmer, ol’ Downen D. Dumps, goes into his bank and finds a new ag loan officer who brisky wants to see his cash...

I think we humans are going to have to modernize the way we measure the history of time. Sound confusing? Let me explain: Up...

In the last week or so, I had to part company with two long-time friends. Happily, neither parting wuz sad. However, one was a...

Spring has sprung and the early arrivals keep showing up. In the last few days the killdeers and buzzards and mourning doves have arrived...

Well, good folks, it finally happened. We got enough rain for the runoff to fill our 4-acre leaky pond. More than 2-inches of rain...

Time marches on, but nostalgia lingers on. That truism wuz revealed to me last week when ol’ Nevah and I drove to southeast Kansas...

Well, Kansas proved once again to me that it’s got few peers in terms of changeable weather patterns. While we in the Flint Hills...

I can’t recall such a long stretch of frigid winter weather in Kansas — complete with sub-zero temperatures, some snow and lots of wind...