Hide N' Seek

Submitted by Brooke Cox on Mon, 09/09/2024 - 21:50

Playing hide and seek was one of my favorite childhood games. I’m not sure why since I wasn’t very good at it. Not at all. First, I struggled to find my hidden friends. Most of the time, they would make it back to home base before I could tag or find them. I wasn’t any more successful at finding a place to hide in that I was usually found before anybody else. But there was an instance in my childhood where I couldn’t be found. To beat it all, I wasn’t even playing Hide ‘N seek.

Dad's Electric Fence

Submitted by Shirley McMurtrie on Mon, 09/09/2024 - 21:49
Artwork by Shirley McMurtrie

I have subscribed to the magazine Farm Show off and on for many years. It is full of inventive ideas farmers do to solve their everyday problems. It shows how creative farmers can be. Of course, you learn to “make do” with homemade things when money is tight. For a farmer, that is almost always. He probably had to borrow from the bank for seed in the spring, hoping to pay it back when he harvested in the fall. A farmer is always looking for ways to save money. Isn’t that the definition of invention, looking for a cheaper or easier ways to do something?

Late Summer Flower Show

Submitted by Steve Roark on Mon, 09/09/2024 - 21:40
Cup Plant is one of many late summer flowers that are in a family called Composite, where what looks like one flower is actually many.

Cup Plant is one of many late summer flowers that are in a family called Composite, where what looks like one flower is actually many.

When it comes to wildflowers that show up in August and September, two things stand out: yellow is by far the dominant color you’ll see, and many of the flowers have a complex flower structure termed a composite, made up of many flowers. You have to look close to actually see what’s going on here, so let me dive in.

Nursery Mission

Submitted by Brooke Cox on Wed, 09/04/2024 - 12:43

We were on a mission. When Tim and I walked into the back bedroom in our daughter
Sara’s house, we were ready to help turn it into a nursery. Unfortunately, we weren’t prepared for the damage we saw.