Aug 24, 2016 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener We are fast approaching Labor Day, that near the end of summer 3-day weekend holiday where I try to catch-up on all of the outdoor work that didn’t get done in preparation for autumn and the ultimately later frigid weather. Owing to alternating...
Aug 17, 2016 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener A Tom Swifty is a play on words that follows an unvarying pattern and relies on a punning relationship between the way an adverb describes a speaker and at the same time refers significantly to the import of the speaker’s statement. For instance,...
Aug 10, 2016 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener (This is an encore column from the Curt Comments archives.) When Elvis died it shocked me. Gone at age 42 a bloated poster child of what poor nutrition, drugs, and an opulent lifestyle can result. Now that was 39 years ago and many of us forgot. Some...
Aug 3, 2016 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener We have all heard of Murphy’s Law, “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” That is what Capt. Edward A. Murphy Jr., a US Air Force engineer once said and it has stuck in the American psyche. So much to the extent that there are numerous...
Jul 27, 2016 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener There’s another battle raging in the wilderness. This one isn’t with stinging insects building nests where they are too close for human inhabitants of the woodlands. I have a small fenced garden in the lower meadow. It is a decent walk from the house...
Jul 20, 2016 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener A few weeks ago I told you of my speculation of a promising crop of blackberries in the wilderness. I am pleased to report my prognostications were berry spot on. I have been three-for-three-for-three: 3- trips, 3- hours, 3-gallons over the past week....
