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George Smith’s wife drove the little school bus that picked my up at the end of our driveway and dropped me off at Liston. One year earlier and I would have walked two miles to the Aarat Country school I understand that this Thursday will be the first day of school for the El Dorado

You’ve probably seen me on my walker. I have to use it to stay upright. It has been my constant companion day and night for at least the past year, probably longer. I don’t sit in it, but I park it beside my bed and when Kimball calls me to breakfast in the morning, I

A Jewish woman in Alaska said she is one o the Frozen Chosen. We could change half of her name in Southwest Missouri. – Kimball was impressed by a presentation from the new CEO of Cedar County Memorial Hospital, Terry Nichols. She said she had never heard a presentation like that since she got here

Sounds like Kimball and Davis’ TV station may have had an effect on the election Tuesday. She said the mayor of Stockton told her he thought he knew who he was going to vote for in one of the races and her interview changed his mind. She told him it wasn’t the first time she

Picnic over.. There were a few rides parked on Broadway as we came to work Monday, but Main Street was clear. Reese, at three years old, has already got the hang of the Picnic. She saw a ride outside our front window at the newspaper with enclosures that she called a room. She kept talking

Picnic here. At least on Monday the lot on East Spring Street is starting to fill up. When I was a kid I picked black berries and dewberries to sell so I would have money for the Picnic. I don’t remember the price – maybe a dollar or dollar and a quarter a gallon and

We got a response to my hummingbird question. James W. Rosbrugh sent an email to Kimball: “Yes, we have several hummingbirds feeding daily at our feeders just a few miles NE of Taberville in St. Clair County.” I think maybe it is the kind of flowers. She has purslain in her four pots on the

Kimball has several pots of beautiful blooming flowers on the picnic table on our south deck. One or more hummingbirds visit the flowers several times a day, usually one at a time. Does anybody still have hummingbirds? Kimball looked on the internet. It said they arrive in April and May and start leaving in mid-August.

Our condolences to the family of Jesse Watts. Nice man. Nice family. Adrian and her two boys left for home Friday morning to spend the night in Little Rock then finish the trip to St. Francisville (30 miles north of New Orleans) Saturday. Cain had to work and didn’t accompany them. He’s allergic to cats

I’m alone in the office with no adult supervision and it’s time for my weekly chat with you. Let’s be sure to pick a spot in the shade so we don’t cook our buns. The fishing reports were kinda skimpy because nobody could take the heat. Hope it cools down before the Picnic. Exactly two