Empty Nest

Curtis Giberson from Hillsboro studied the '54 Chevy he saw on an on-line farm auction.  The picture wasn't very good.  The caption read, “Only 32,400 …

The bathroom floors in the Hotel Manning are heated, at least in the “Old Part” of the hotel.  I had gotten up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, and was …

Famed international French artist Cecile Houel (pronounced “Well”) is honored, pleased and excited.  Tourists aboard a Viking River Cruise will be visiting her art studio on …

It's going to the top!  “Task Force IED”, my third book, is going to the top of the best seller lists.  Amazon has it rated at five stars.  Unlike my first two book that …

Drive down Main Street of Mediapolis and there's nothing mediocre about this little Iowa town, population 2118.  The street is lined with flowers—petunias, impatiens, Boston ferns, …

Spenser Remick, formerly of Salem, is 35-years old, weighs 320 lbs ±, is 6'3” tall and is well on his way to being a competitor at the World's Strongest Man contest.  …

We have a yellow trumpet vine.  Not the standard orange trumpet vine that you see a lot of, but yellow. There was a huge growth of it just west of New London a few years ago.  It was …

Ginnie and I went to Yellowstone again this year for vacation.  Last year we were there and saw actual wolves in the wild feeding on a bison carcass.  Not only that, but we were treated to …

 I turn 74 this month.  I'll take and tell you, what Ginnie and I went through with COVID 19, I could see the end, and it wasn't pretty.  It made me realize that life is so …

Curt Swarm, Empty …

He's had two great pleasures in his life.  Most people only have one, but Paul Mohrfeld of Ft. Madison, has had two.  The first one was his wife, Rita.  Her name was La Rita, but …

Mariia, Olena and Sviatoslav (or Sviat, pronounced “Fiat”) were in a quandary.  All three are excellent students and college bound, but because of the war, their lives are torn apart.  Their …

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