Snake, Rattle, and Roll
Portage County may be well positioned to be the center of a new conservation push in Ohio, especially since , historically, we have had...
The News Front!
Folks are getting a little leary about eating items with lettuce from Taco Bell, right? Well, according to The Week, you might want to...
Want Some Lettuce On That Burrito?
Well, maybe, if it’s deep-fried. Or not. Looks like the origin of the cyclosporiasis outbreak has been spotted, so-to-speak. Being found in, of all things,...
How Are You Feelin’?
Thinking of joining the “Plague of the Month”Club? Get in line. The latest dread disease is a parasite apparently commonly found on fresh produce (That’ll teach...
Heckuva Horticulture
Things are actually growing in my ersatz garden by the side of the house–a bunch of pots, one raised bed contraption a little more...
Hotsy-Totsy–Scenes from SummerFest
Got my annual corn dog–sometimes it’s semi-annual, depending on however many fairs/festivals I get to. It’s one of the things about “fair food” that...
What’s Going On Out There?
Okay. Okay. I understand that the internet is a way for folks to make connections and get information and learn stuff but I seem...
A Curmudgeon’s Lament
Always something to be gained by attending an alumni gathering. Sometimes it’s just the satisfaction of realizing that you’re still alive and kicking–plenty of...
Horticulture Part II
“The farmer in the dell, the farmer in the dell, Hi Ho, the Dairy-O, The farmer in the dell.” Anybody else remember that one? Isn’t there...
Rummage Around
Rummage is one of those interesting words that can be both a noun and a verb–and two kinds of a verb, at that, both...
Local Highlights
Step right up ! Bargains galore ! OOPS. Cover everything. Garage Sale weekend had its moments–some of them rather damp. Lots of stuff out there...
Aww… Take A Hike Folks
The 28th Annual Portage County Park District Foundation Awards Dinner and Auction on April 25, was a full-grown success. The evening featured a celebration...
April Showers….?
Nothing was said about April snows, was it? Earth Day coming up on the 22nd is about it for celebrations this month but maybe someone...
Coming or Going??
What’s that old one about March ? Comes “ in like a lion and out like a lamb” ? Or is it “comes in...
Shop Til You… What???
Well, here we are at All Fools’ Day and I’m not even talking about politics–not yet, but the primaries are coming; are you registered? Never...
Mad Dogs and Englishmen
The saying goes that only, “mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.” (This was a remark from colonial times when the...
Annoying? …. “To a T”
This is high on my list of recent rants. We are all starting to sound like Brits–and not the upper crust, Oxford & Cambridge...
On The Road Again
The Road Apple Roubaix has come and gone once more, and left us with memories of probably the most “spring like” day yet. Makes...
Secret Recipe
I’m here to tell you how to lose twenty pounds–give or take an ounce or two–in one fell swoop…or maybe it was when the...
Olym-past… and none too soon
Okay, now I can actually get something done…or not. I had forgotten how enticing it can be to watch superior athletes do their thing. The...
Definitely Uphill
Whoa !!! The Olympics certainly have some MAJOR MOMENTS ! Lindsey Vonn and her ill-fated return to the Women’s Downhill, for instance. What a thing...
What’s Cookin’
So I am putting together my piece on the meeting of the Twentieth Century Club of Garrettsville, when all sorts of related topics and...
Bbbbrrrrrrrrrr
Well, here we are again. We definitely DO NOT need Greenland. We’ve already got the weather and claiming anything else would be a pile of...
Signs and Portents
Christmas trees abandoned on the “devil strip”. Wrappings and tinsel in the weekly trash pick-ups. Peppermint and/or chocolate overload. But the surest sign that...
Welcome To Nuuk
What? You didn’t know that Nuuk is the principal settlement in Greenland,( a province of Denmark in the Western hemisphere)? Have you happened to...
