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...
Sep 25, 2019 | Curt Comments
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...