Saturday, December 13, 2025

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Kids These Days

When it comes to kids and ranching there are four distinct species we should be concerned about: #1- The queasy tattooed urchin- These are kids who grew up on a...

Just a Little Light: The Candy Cane Lady (Part II)

Dawn Phelps Columnist When Terri went to bed one night in 1992, she could see.  When she awakened the next morning, she was blind, and...

Lovina Shares About Winter Days and Memories Held Close

Lovina’s Amish Kitchen Lovina Eitcher, Old Order Amish Cook, Wife & Mother of Eight It is Monday evening, just after 7 p.m. here at the Eicher homestead. Supper is...

Daughter Verena Writes About Hosting Thanksgiving In Their Home

Lovina’s Amish Kitchen Lovina Eitcher, Old Order Amish Cook, Wife & Mother of Eight This is Verena writing. Mom is in the middle of frying chicken for supper. I...

Just a Little Light: The Candy Cane Lady (Part I)

By Dawn Phelps   The first time I met Terri was in December 2014 when I took another hospice employee with me to meet her.  Before...

Lettuce Eat Local: Making a list, Chex-ing it twice

Amanda Miller Columnist Lettuce Eat Local The last weeks before Christmas are here, and the air is filled with sweet anticipation — and sweet everything. Forget visions...

Bird hunting nostalgia

Getting old brings many irreversible life-changes. Most of those changes I've taken in stride as unavoidable. But, the life-change that I regret the most,...

Cranberry Sauce

Well our son and daughter in law got home from their honeymoon to multiple inches of snow in St. Louis, MO. They had no...

Whitetails, Shotguns and Turkey Shoots

One of the perks of having had an interesting and memorable childhood full of interesting and memorable characters, is having a treasure chest full...

Green Thieves

Normally I'm a pretty peaceful guy but you want to know what really makes me mad? It's these fake- meat veg-heads who are stealing...

Creative Cowboy Cussin’ (Best Of)

After attending a saloon session at a cow buyer's convention my wife made the astute observation that cattle persons have the disgusting habit of...