Nov 13, 2019 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Now that the election is over, it doesn’t matter whether your candidate won or lost. The prophet John coined the title of this column: remember it often. And remember some of these when you’re feeling low…and especially when you’re feeling high &...
Oct 30, 2019 | Curt Comments
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...
Oct 23, 2019 | Curt Comments
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...
Oct 16, 2019 | Curt Comments
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...
Oct 9, 2019 | Curt Comments
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...
Oct 2, 2019 | Curt Comments
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...