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January 14, 2026

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Outstanding in His Field

Caution flags

We regularly see caution flags or those bright orange cones along the roads that we travel. We have also bounced through a deep pothole or

Soooo what did we learn?

2020 has been a year of very fast learning. Our first lesson was that technology gave us a way to learn from home.  It took

The train of death

The most dreaded train of death in past history took a race of people to the concentration camp at Auschwitz, which was merely a holding

Not all engineers have degrees

Kids like to tinker. Parents have noticed that the kids from an early age who liked to take things apart just to see and build

Science is not new

I have always been amazed at how birds can navigate their way south, thousands of miles for the winter and then come all the way

Yes we are thankful

Every year we take some time to reminisce about happenings over the last year as we enjoy great food and drinks with family and friends.

Don’t lose your head

2020 has been a very trying year for us all. Since early spring, we have been living through the uncertainty of an unknown and unpredictable

Pollution on the farm

Now that we are looking closely at what we have been throwing away, such as things that don’t break down for hundreds or even thousands

Week twenty-six ­— different food

More than six months have passed since March when most of the world realized that COVID-19 was a serious, deadly, virus. Where and what we

Water

“You never miss the water till the well goes dry.” This old saying still holds true today. We just take water for granted. When our

Caution flags

We regularly see caution flags or those bright orange cones along the roads that we travel. We have also bounced through a deep pothole or deep cut-out in the pavement where work is only partly done but the paving gang

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Soooo what did we learn?

2020 has been a year of very fast learning. Our first lesson was that technology gave us a way to learn from home.  It took our schools and universities a while to adjust from in person to learning from a

Read More »

The train of death

The most dreaded train of death in past history took a race of people to the concentration camp at Auschwitz, which was merely a holding pen until people were sent to one of the gas chambers and their bodies evaporated

Read More »

Not all engineers have degrees

Kids like to tinker. Parents have noticed that the kids from an early age who liked to take things apart just to see and build stuff, will likely be mechanically inclined. Girls as well as boys like to tinker.  Kids

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Science is not new

I have always been amazed at how birds can navigate their way south, thousands of miles for the winter and then come all the way back to nest in the same tree or barn loft each year.  Astronomy has been

Read More »

Yes we are thankful

Every year we take some time to reminisce about happenings over the last year as we enjoy great food and drinks with family and friends. This year was very trying for all of us. With the sudden onset of the

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Don’t lose your head

2020 has been a very trying year for us all. Since early spring, we have been living through the uncertainty of an unknown and unpredictable virus. We have been thrust into a different way of life. Some of us learned

Read More »

Pollution on the farm

Now that we are looking closely at what we have been throwing away, such as things that don’t break down for hundreds or even thousands of years, it’s time the farmers justify their pollution habits.  Let’s start with manure since

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Week twenty-six ­— different food

More than six months have passed since March when most of the world realized that COVID-19 was a serious, deadly, virus. Where and what we ate went through a drastic change. It took a while before the logistics of getting

Read More »

Water

“You never miss the water till the well goes dry.” This old saying still holds true today. We just take water for granted. When our pioneer ancestors chose a piece of land to farm on, the first thing that they

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