Rock Wall

It was an unusual Picnic for three big reasons. No. 1 – because Adrian was here with our grandson, Van. At almost nine months, he couldn’t have cared less about the Picnic. He’s just started crawling and pulling up on things (and toppling them if he can) so he requires constant supervision. He’s a happy

Picnic here. At least the rides are – parked everywhere all over town. Wednesday night the Street Dance with Rekoil will kick off the festivities. We’ll have an Eagles Burger to prepare our innards for three days  of Picnic food. I just asked Kimball if we had any Class Reunion pictures scheduled for the Picnic.

Kimball just showed me her cell phone with a photo of Van with all of his teeth, both of them, barely breaking his bottom gum line. He just turned eight months. Adrian cut her first tooth at four months and two days. – I got out of the hospital on Tuesday, July 3, and felt

My thoughts have been off the wall since Friday when Kimball checked me into Cedar County Memorial. I heard the nurses repeatedly refer to UTI which got totally out of hand during the evening. I was so sick I couldn’t even stay awake and stand up for the nurses to clean me up. But they

Hey guys, we appreciate all the news you send us. We really do. But if you are trying to get us to NOT print your news, I’ll tell you how to accomplish that – PUT IT IN ALL CAPS, LIKE THIS. Why? Because we have to re-keyboard every bit of it. True, if you bring

It’s been an eventful week. – I started getting phone calls Monday about a massive fish kill at Shell-Osage. Davis recommended that I go take pictures. I did. He was right and so was everybody else who called. Tuesday I received a press release from the MDC. Also on Tuesday, I received a call back

Monday evening I was looking for something and attacked the in basket on my desk. As I was finding items that went back several years, I came across an unopened Christmas card. A gruff looking Santa glared at me. When I opened the card, it said, “He saw everything.” A scary enough thought. Then Adrian

I talked to Monday to Wyatt Graves about his part in the East-West All Star game over the weekend and wrote an article based on our conversation. Then, I received an email from his mom, Jodi, in much more detail and mentioning the entire family. I told her that her version was much more complete

Exciting news broke at the last minute Tuesday. Governor Greitens announced his resignation which means that as of Friday, Friend of El Dorado Springs and Cedar County Mike Parson will step into the governor’s office. I guess he may not have time to come cook hotdogs for us at the annual Christmas lighting any more,

Justify won the Preakness, the second leg of the Triple Crown, without our help. Our satellite receiver lost contact during a deluge so we had to catch it on the news later. – School was out Wednesday, so give the kids a brake. – The Virginia Ryan Strain Pool opens Tuesday, the 29th. -Memorial Day