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HavingREELFun
“No more wishin’ let’s go fishin” my good friend is always saying.
Well, the initial picture I was going to put in the paper was...
Esoteric Astrology as news for week December 6 – 12, 2023
St. Nick, Hanukkah, New Moon, Two Marys & Mercury retrograde!
We have a week filled with multiple festivals, a saint’s day, a festival of light,...
The Coffee Table
Fast Food Judgement
I just read about a judge who, in an effort to make the punishment fit the crime, sentenced a woman to work...
HavingREELFun
This week we had beautiful sunshine but chilly winds. A good outfitter told me one time it’s never bad weather just bad clothing, so...
Esoteric Astrology as news for week December 13 – 19, 2023
A Mercury Retrograde Season!
Mercury retrograde begins Tuesday (December 12) night around midnight after the Sagittarius new moon. Mercury remains retrograde ‘til the first...
The Dirt on Nicky
Worms in winter
A word about earthworms – wiggly.
There are worms in most all non-glacial, non-ice-covered areas of Earth. Even in deserts. How did they...
Elaine Louise Ballance-Wurmnest March 12, 1958 – Nov. 24, 2023
Elaine Louise Ballance-Wurmnest – Lany – arrived on this earthly plane to Richard and Shirley Ballance in Gibson City, Ill. on March 12, 1958....
Eminent domain on the table for wind farm
Scout Clean Energy has proposed a $300-million Nimbus Wind Facility in rural Carroll County and stated that it has all the leases from willing...
Forest Service plan raises hackles of Buffalo River advocates
The non-profit Buffalo River Watershed Alliance (BRWA) has raised objections to the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Robert’s Gap Project to manage a 40,000-acre tract...
Ranger touts forest burn benefits
The Ozark-St. Francis National Forest Big Piney District Robert’s Gap Project would have many benefits including a “wide variety of needed treatments which would...