A time to plant…

I’ve been busy, and haven’t been able to post much. But today I took the whole Saturday to work around the farm with Larry. He had prepared the garden for planting, and today we finished (OK, we are a little late, we know) planting the onions and potatoes and one row of corn. Two more [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day

This morning I realized I hadn’t posted in several days, and missed my chance to talk about Friday the 13th. But here it is, Saturday and Valentine’s Day, so have a great day everyone! The graphic on the left was a free download from this site: http://www.stvalentinesday.org/valentines-day-pictures.html
Valentine’s Day is special in the Kilby household. This [...]

Icebound

Well, folks, I live in McDonald County, and we are apparently getting the worst of it here.
I keep telling myself that we will be OK, we won’t have a power outage, and everything will get back to normal in a couple of days. After all, I say, we had enough damaging ice storms in the [...]

We who are about to be snowed (iced) in salute you

It’s Saturday, and I’m enjoying the winter sun. The sky is that color of watercolor blue that only winter can produce during a January high pressure zone, but it is cold outside – 22 degrees at high noon. All the better to stay inside, do light housework, grade papers and study, right? 
The forecast on my [...]

A front row seat to history

 
A student  asked me today what it was like, growing up in the 1960s and experiencing all the assassinations and other things that were happening at the time. The question, which came in the middle of a discussion of this week’s historical inauguration of our first African-American president, took me by surprise for a second. [...]

About comments

Just a little note here, guys: I’m really glad to get readers from the world out there, but I’m not going to allow just any post to live, especially when they add nothing to the blog as a whole, and when they misspell words and make the poster look foolish. So, whoever left the one-word [...]

Hard Times? Put Lipstick on that Hog!

OK, it’s official: the bad economy is endangering the American dream. It’s not enough that Christmas shopping in 2008 was as dismal as Sunday afternoon at a nursing home, that people have lost their 401Ks, their jobs are either gone or going and they are either unable or afraid to buy a new car. [...]

The geese at the top of the page are “ours.”

I say “ours” in quotes because they are wild geese. And as anyone can tell you about wild geese, they really belong to no one. But yes, I took the picture on our farm down at the big pond. We have four ponds, and this is the old original pond that also has a “twin” [...]

Bible dousing anyone?

I’ve been watching the History Channel again, and they have a new show on Bible Codes. I won’t go in to great detail, but basically the deal is that somebody figured out that in the Torah and the Bible a code is imbedded that reveals things. In order to find the code, you need [...]

Cooking again – Cornish Hens Giverny

I told Larry not to get used to my cooking every night; as of next week, I’ll be back on a very tough schedule, and this will end. But today, at home with gray skies and cold temps, I decided to get busy in the kitchen. I had some left over homemade cornbread from the [...]