Jan 28, 2009 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener I was looking forward to the recent below freezing temperatures. Last summer I noticed some boards loose on the dock in the lake at the wilderness retreat. An inspection revealed some of the 25-year-old support boards were rotting and their structural...
Jan 14, 2009 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener A local businessman who epitomized the solid work ethic axioms “Nose to the grind stone” and “Shoulder to the wheel” lost a lengthy battle with cancer on Sunday. His parents named him Lee D. Royalty but we all knew him as “Sam”. He came from a large...
Jan 7, 2009 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Cold weather greeted us for a less than happy new year. But despite the Arctic weather outside, Miz Mary has been in the height of her glory since before Christmas. No, she didn’t discover where I hid the presents and took a pre-holiday peek....
Dec 24, 2008 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener I’m going to clue you in on a bedroom secret at our house. At ease, porn protesters, this isn’t X-rated but it is Z-rated as in ZZZzzzzzz. When colder weather arrives in this neck of the woods of the Hoosier State, our bed gets covered with flannel...
Dec 17, 2008 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener I suppose it was inevitable. But I didn’t think the lesson would be taught this quickly. Last week state leaders got the news they didn’t want to hear. Indiana’s projected (and already budgeted to be spent) income would be short by $600 million. That...
Dec 10, 2008 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener In a few weeks the John Grogan based book “Marley & Me” is to be released to theatres. It is about a newspaper columnist who has an incorrigible yellow Labrador Retriever and writes about the dog’s exploits and refusal to abide by civil house...
