Well it’s that time of year again, time to give thanks for all of our blessings and eat so much that we are in danger of injuring ourselves. :0) But, before you finish your pie and lie on the couch to succumb to your annual carb coma, take a moment to be grateful for one […]
I was in the kitchen with the Mrs. last night. We were having a serious discussion about an important topic…what kind of snack we should have. We are empty nesters now. Since the last few of our 15 kids grew up and moved away I find that the problems and questions that need to be […]
It’s a beautiful day in the apocalypse. The sun is shining, there is a lovely breeze in the air and no one has seen any Mutant Biker Zombies for weeks. Because it’s such a lovely day, your uncle Bob (who isn’t the sharpest tool in the drawer) grabs the sharpest tool from the tool shed […]
♪ Over the river and through the woods, to Grandmother’s house we go! ♪ I don’t know what your house is like during the holidays, but the Jones House becomes something akin to Grand Central Station. With 15 kids and about a half a gazillion grandkids (I don’t have the actual number but Grandma does) […]
Well, it’s that time again. The time that everyone in the country starts awake in the middle of the night in a cold sweat asking… “Yikes! What if THAT guy wins?! Yes, it’s a stressful question regardless of which side of the political football stadium you’re sitting in. We sit in the bleachers of that […]
I’ve been around for a little over half a century. I remember the civil rights movement of the sixties, the energy crisis and the Vietnam War in the seventies, the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, the crash of Wall Street in the eighties, and the rash of hurricanes and earthquakes in the nineties. In 2000 […]
Charlie is a young boxer. He had a busy morning last week running around his owner’s farm. First he ran through some wonderful mud. Then he popped over to the neighbor’s fence line to bark at their dogs for a minute so that they would remember to stay out of his yard. While he was […]
For the past three decades or so, I’ve been practicing as a veterinarian. Early in my career I discovered the powerful healing benefits of medicinal plants. Herbs have been a part of my daily practice ever since. I’ve used them for treating gunshot wounds, rattlesnake bites, gangrene, kidney stones, anxiety, serious infections, and about every […]
It seems, of late, that the world is trying to tell us something. And what is it trying to tell us? Bad Stuff Happens! We used to turn on the news to see what the weather was going to do tomorrow. Now we tune in to find out which city is in flames today or […]
Sir Isaac Newton, the famous physicist that discovered and quantified the law of gravity, codified the laws of thermodynamics, motion, mechanics and astronomy and (when he got bored with all of that) invented the reflective telescope and created the mathematical system of calculus, described himself as follows: “I do not know what I may appear […]
