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Secret mushroom patch waiting in Highland Township
Posted Wednesday, April 13, at 12:41 PM Somewhere in Highland Township, there's a patch of mushrooms popping up that would fill a big brown grocery sack. There's no good path to find it -- it's a long journey on foot to a pretty little clearing in the woods and one must walk and walk and walk to get there. This place is so far back, it'll bout walk the legs off any little girl who is trying to keep up with her grandpa who's making the trek. I have first-hand experience...
With a Tomahawk Update: Watching the little guys win was fun Watching the final game of the NCAA March Madness was not quite as fun as I had hoped, but I'm not going to complain about not getting that last chance to jump up and down. After being so disappointed many times this year when I watched the IU games, following Butler and VCU to the Final Four was refreshing. I love it when the underdog wins, or when the little guy topples the big bad giant and both Butler and VCU were a thrill a minute...
Wilma was way ahead of her time Back in the days when the internet was young and just a few adventurous souls around my hometown were experimenting with a new gadget called a personal computer, it wasn't the youthful ones that were throwing cash toward a Tandy or other PC. That may surprise some, but I remember my friend Wilma McBride was the one on the cutting age way back when. Some might say Wilma has reached the age of great wisdom, and that's true, but Wilma is one of those people that is truly "forever young."...
Court news going online Change for the better is always a good thing, except when it upsets my apple cart. Go with the flow sounds good, as long as it's someone else that has to do it. On my beat, there's a big change under way at the courthouse. On the positive side, it's a change that the majority of the public will love. People who don't want everyone to know about their past criminal record -- might not love it so much...
Recent events make you count your blessings This is the safest place on earth. That's what my dad always told me when I was growing up -- that we lived in the best, safest place to be found anywhere in the world. I believed every word. He told me lots of things, and when I got a little older I questioned these things and decided he might not have told me the whole truth...
Marsh Madness means spring is near The days are getting longer and spring's getting closer. It seems like summer was so very long ago. Too much ice, too much snow this year to suit me. But this weekend is Marsh Madness -- a relatively new but definite sign of spring in Greene County...
Don't forget the three Cs Guess I didn't follow the three "C" rule to prevent flu and other maladies, or maybe someone else didn't follow the rules, because some kind of epizootic got hold of me last week and knocked me for a loop. The three "C" rules are Clean, as in washing your hands frequently, and Cover, as in cover your coughs and sneezes, and Contain, as in contain your own germs by staying home if your are sick...
It's best to think before you comment Do you post comments online? Lots of them, or one once in awhile? Either way, I hope you're keeping up on the news about how lawsuits against commenters are being won by the people who have been targets of nasty comments. For reasons that I don't understand, some commenters use their ability to comment on stories and blogs to rake others over the coals, and some of these comments are mean, ugly, hurtful and in many cases, downright wrong...
This weather reminds me of Frog As I sit down to write this week's column, the ice storm clouds are moving into Greene County, but it's not yet known what the landscape is going to look like when this appears in the paper on Thursday. They're predicting this will be a significant storm, one for the history books...
Ice Storm Warning for Greene County! The National Weather Service issued ice storm warnings for both Monroe and Sullivan counties earlier this afternoon, and I thought Greene County was somehow going to escape the "Icepacalypse." But no, at 1:36 p.m., an Ice Storm Warning was issued for Greene. The text is below.... Also at 1:30-ish, as I was driving from Linton to Worthington, the highways seemed okay and the trucks were out, yet some ice was building up on my windshield at the spot where my wipers stopped. Everyone be safe!...
Why can't we focus on good things? The news online lately has been one disturbing thing after another. There's that constant drone of talk about the healthcare crisis, jobs and the economy. Then there's the bunches of birds and fish and other various forms of wildlife that have died in mass in places here and there around the globe...
Sometimes it's best to keep quiet Following the weekend shootings in Tuscon, the sheriff out in Arizona used the word "vitriol" and basically said the political discourse needs to be toned down. Vitriol is not exactly a household word and it hit a national nerve. The world vitriol has a scientific meaning but in everyday speech, it means abusive or venomous language used to express blame or bitter deep-seated ill will; or a rude expression intended to offend or hurt; an attack in speech or writing; bitter verbal abuse; to lash out, attack, assault, snipe.. ...
What happened to peaceful transitions? In America we regularly have these peaceful transitions of power from one elected official to the next. I hear that phrase frequently during the transitions from one U.S. President to the next on the national level, also when the balance changes in Congress...
Be careful who you ask for advice Remember the days when we woke up, looked out the window and were surprised to see the ground covered in snow? Now we know it's coming days ahead of time, track it on radar and try to pinpoint the exact hour when it will start to fall. Ah, times do change...
One vote could make the difference The Pepsi Refresh Project gives away $1.3 million in grants each month and Pepsi decides who gets the money through an online voting process. It's Pepsi's way of distributing millions of dollars to community projects around the country and they accept grant requests from individuals, for-profit organizations and non-profit organizations...
Small gestures can mean a lot I don't know who wrote the following story, but it's been circulating around the web lately and I like it. The Pickle Jar The pickle jar as far back as I can remember sat on the floor beside the dresser in my parents' bedroom. When he got ready for bed, Dad would empty his pockets and toss his coins into the jar...
"She worked as a social worker for the State of Indiana for 38 years." Oh, Glenda Murphy. Must we say goodbye? I didn't know she was ill, but her obituary has appeared in the paper this week, a visitation was scheduled for Wednesday evening at Jenkins Funeral Home in Bloomfield, and there will be a graveside service in her native state of Illinois on Friday...
Election night goes smoothly at GCDW Congratulations to everyone who came out on top in this year's county and local elections. There were lots of candidates and their families and friends who were out there pounding the pavement, knocking on doors, shaking hands, throwing candy in parades, pounding signs into rock-hard ground along every highway and generally working very hard in the last few weeks...
It's time to watch out for 'gobble-uns' Halloween is in the air and there's no better time for a reading of Riley's poem about the gobble-uns. I love this one! LITTLE ORPHANT ANNIE By James Whitcomb Riley INSCRIBED WITH ALL FAITH AND AFFECTION To all the little children: -- The happy ones; and sad ones;...
Frost on the punkin? Fall is the time of year when poems by James Whitcomb Riley pop into my mind and I've got one to put in my column space for this week and next. My third-grade teacher, Mrs. Gilbreath, used to read these to her class every year. Riley, by the way, was a Hoosier, and a newspaper man...
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