ISawArkansas

Seems like we had a recent huddle about miscommunication in texting and guess what? Failure-to-communicate happens in regular old phone conversations! Who knew? Not hearing...

HavingREELFun

The heroes of the week are Fred Perry and Carl Caso. They teamed up to get this monster trout-eating machine out of our White...

The Nature of Eureka

On Henbits and Deadnettles There’s two weeds that you all see and probably don’t give a second thought to. You find them in lawns, along...

The Dirt on Nicky

Mullein vs. demons and catarrh My first awareness of mullein (Verbascum thapsus) occurred in southeastern Washington. I lived in the bunkhouse of a Jolly Green...

The Coffee Table

The Smiling Impairment If anybody should be opposed to wearing a mask, it’s me. I am moderately hearing impaired—enough to wear hearing aids. Except masks make my little...

ISawArkansas

Loggers cut down old-growth trees insisting, “We hugged it first,” and tell us if they didn’t cut the trees, we’d be using plastic toilet...

HavingREELFun

I had the pleasure of taking the Anderson family from Texas out on my boat this last weekend. Tag, Karla, and their beautiful daughter,...

The Dirt on Nicky

The beet goes on Aphrodite was the goddess of love in Greek myth, and what special food did the myth-writers claim she favored to enhance...

The Coffee Table

I finally decided it was time to mow the grass. I’ve been putting it off for fear I couldn’t get the mower started. As long...

ISawArkansas

A friend had a quadruple heart bypass several months ago. When he went dark for five or six weeks I finally texted him, “Are...