Jun 3, 2020 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener From my observations of the wilderness fencerows and open areas, this should be a bonanza year.It seems that all of the dynamics have come together for a bumper crop of wild blackberry.The winter was warm so few dormant second year canes were frozen....
May 27, 2020 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener(This is an encore column from the Curt Comments archives.)This column for post Memorial Day weekend is being written from the woodland wilderness. Many of these meanderings are inspired here, but this one for this time seems particularly appropriate.It...
May 13, 2020 | Curt Comments
by Curt KovenerIrony: (n) a state of affairs or event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects.Hypocrisy: (n) the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one’s own behavior does not conform; pretense.When is it irony and when is it...
Apr 22, 2020 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Back in the day…better make that WAY back in the day when I was a first responder on the volunteer fire department, we would get called out to put of grass fires, field fires and woods fires. And there were times that, using what was tantamount to a...
Apr 1, 2020 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener The Times has been in print for 40 years and we can easily count on one hand the number of times the Times was published on April Fools Day. There’s no question that April Fools’ Day is one of the most widely recognized non-religious holidays in the...
Mar 25, 2020 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Did you vote for candidates who wanted to cut government spending? Put government on a business basis? Eliminate government regulations? Get government off the backs of business and out of our private lives? So now how does it feel to travel 100 or...
