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Quippy, Lippy Purloined One Liners

by Curt Kovener For many people, they say the wheel was the greatest invention. I disagree. For me, copy and paste is the greatest invention. Without it, I could not borrow these signboard messages from across the U.S. to share with you. •Dogs can’t operate MRI...

A Volunteer Outshines Enigmatic Garden Crops

by Curt Kovener An enigma is a person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand. Thus, like farm crops, our garden this growing season was an enigma. The usual plant/transplant time was unseasonably cool and wet. In May 8.5” of rain washed out...

Grandpa Used To Say…

by Curt Kovener My Grandpa was a farmer. In the middle of the 20th century Depression, he took a repossessed, run-down, top-soil eroded 160 acres of weeds and spent dirt and with equipment he bought used, a lot of sweat and faith renovated the land and made a living...

Number Pul-leeze

by Curt Kovener (This is an encore column from the Curt Comments archives.) For some this may be a walk down memory lane, for others it could be considered a local history lesson. For the youngest of our readers this could be a “You’ve got to be kidding” column. Back...

A Season Without A Drink

by Curt Kovener Farmers have had it tough this growing season. Cool wet spring, rains that came as a deluge (there was 8.35 inches that fell in the wilderness this spring), and then the faucet turned off and it got #$%^& hot for the summer. But crop producers are...

September In The Morning

by Curt Kovener September is a glorious month in the wilderness…all except for the fall pollen that periodically sends my sinuses alternatively switching from plugged up to running like the water in the creek below the dam. While this year the month has been warmer...