I am visiting my daughter and her family in Pennsylvania right now. My grandsons are celebrating their birthdays and I always like to be with them, if at all possible, during that week. They are 10 and 12 and are just so tall. I just don’t get how they could go from those sweet, cuddly little two-year-olds to preteens so quickly! …
After being teased for the last few months by the white blooms of the blackberry vines in yards, pastures, and alongside roadways, the fruit is finally beginning to ripen. Being the only species of blackberry found in Missouri, the common blackberry is easily identifiable. White blooms are witnessed between the months of April and June. …
I remember it like it was yesterday! I had all the requirements for the Boy Scout cooking merit badge accomplished — the menus, buying the food for the patrol, making the fire — all except for preparing a main dish that would be cooked over an open fire. My grandmother lived with us while we…
By Bob Brennecke Fall is the time when there are a lot of squash available. In fact, I found some butternut squash on my porch the other day and no note, so I started experimenting and was glad I did. I was so surprised how easy it was to make a delicious soup for this…
We’re all too painfully aware these days of disease and sickness, so I thought I’d throw out there a few more old Ozark folk remedies, some of which I don’t think I’ve shared before. A few may actually work. Others are probably not to be taken seriously. I’ll leave those decisions to the reader’s discretion. …
I grew up eating oven-baked turkeys. No matter how mom did it, no matter how much basting, stuffing and fussing, the breast was always dry and had very little taste. I just thought that was just another Thanksgiving tradition. As I got older and started killing wild turkeys, friends suggested I fry the…
People look forward to camping in the great outdoors for many reasons. The reasons are many, and vary fro person to person. These can include getting away from the pressures of everyday life like work, the telephone calls from salespeople or survey takers, the constant negative news that is being reported on television and in…
The lowly armadillo has finally arrived in Missouri. It has only taken several million years, but he made it. And in case you did not know it, prior to the point in time when North and South America were linked by the formation of the Isthmus of Panama, there were no armadillos in North America;…
