Milo Yield

This is a year of weather abnormalities. I’m writing this on Nov. 11 and to date we have not had a killing frost —...

This week is one of those weeks when you find out the benefit of making new friends in high places. Well, let me be...

Ever since the internet brought live weather maps into my life I’ve become a weather-map junkie. I look at the U.S., Kansas, and local...

Br-r-r! It was 39 degrees this morning when I first looked at the thermometer. That’s too close to frost and winter for me, but,...

The weather thankfully changed for the better this week. We received right at 5 inches of rain combined in two short thunderstorms. It wuz...

My brain has been in slow motion this week, so thankfully some thoughtful and generous readers pitched and e-mailed funny, rural stories for me...

Well, this week started off with a bummer problem. I went out yesterday morning to do my chores and water the garden and discovered...

Fall is already into the calendar and fall weather has come into view. This morning the temperature was 48 degrees. Yesterday was a fall...

The fall corn harvest is in full swing in the Flint Hills and in eastern Kansas. From early accounts, the harvest is pretty good...

My desk has been accumulating and collecting odds and ends of stories and sayings. I need to “clean ‘em out.” So, here’s the first. *** A...