I just finished re-reading “Hatchet” by Gary Paulsen. I read it several years ago, but my son was reading it for his reading class so I decided to read it with him. If you haven’t read “Hatchet,” you should. It’s a great book.

I was invited out to lunch recently, and the hostess served soup and homemade Artisan bread.

What a treat! Of course, I had to have her recipe, although I admit I tweaked it a bit.

Failure to maintain proper coolant can result in engine overheating, engine cylinder liner cavitation (pitting), water pump failures, corrosion, coolant contamination of the lube system and loss of coolant.

Most manufacturers recommend testing annually or at specified hour intervals, such as every 500 hours.

April 1, 2025 headline: Wine and cheese banned from American diets

The presidentially appointed Director of Taste has declared the selling and/or dispensing of all fermented beverages derived from the fruit of the vine is to be prohibited in the U.S.

I can always count on my friends to add a new page to my scrapbook entitled “How to Mess up a Simple Calving.” This chapter would be entitled “Halter Safety.”

At a recent training event at the USDA-NRCS State Office in East Lansing, Michigan, 25 employees attended a technical course for two days. I helped deliver this course. When done, I was drawn to write a commentary about the course’s students. Here is it in this column.

In our world today, so many people feel that honesty is a matter of perspective. They think that they are still being honest if no one sees them and can testify against them. They feel that they can steal if someone left their property sitting around unattended.

“Finders keepers” is the rule of the day. Some even feel that they have a right to take whatever they want. The world owes it to them if they have a good excuse. Where are we getting such attitudes?