Country CousinIssue Date: July 18, 2019 Seventy days 'til fall
Summer is absolutely speeding by. Impossible as it seems, in less than 70 days, Autumn will officially be here! Just this week we had the Full Buck Moon. Strawberries are almost done, blueberries are ripening, and chipmunks are already picking raspberries - lots of them! Should be a bumper crop of raspberries and blackberries this year if we can fight off the furry little critters long enough for the berries to get ripe.
Summer may be going downhill, but the fun events in TIMESland keep happen...
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From My WindowIssue Date: July 18, 2019Janie Thibodeau Martin For those readers who wanted contact information for the Amish dinners, we have received our postcard for a July 26 fish fry. It runs from 3:30 to 8 p.m. The address is 122450 Big Rapids Road, Stratford, WI 54484. 2.5 miles East of Highway 97; or 1.5 miles West of County Road M. If you write to the address and request being added to their notification list, you will get postcards when meals are scheduled.
Regular readers know how much I detest the "self-scan" checkouts in stores. I first encountered this annoyance at "Mega-Retaile...
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From Our ReadersIssue Date: July 11, 2019 Letter to the Editor:
Our communities were built for a population greater than what we have today. Our public assets are greater than our declining population can support. Therefore, we struggle to maintain what we have, and we miss out on the opportunity to make improvements for the future. As taxpayers, each of us absorbs the higher cost of this shortfall which has been nine decades in the making.
By rebuilding our population to what it was 100 years ago and being shrewd in how we do that, we can nearly double our economy in t...
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Country CousinIssue Date: July 11, 2019 More celebrations....
The long Independence Day weekend drew record numbers of visitors to TIMESland, and for the most part the weather was unbelievably cooperative. The rain came down sometimes, but stopped at the right times. The summer skies didn't rain on anybody's parade, no fireworks were doused, and the extreme heat on the Fourth of July itself just made the cool drinks at picnics taste better, and made an afternoon splashing in the creek or at the nearest beach that much more fun.
We are truly blessed here in our...
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From My WindowIssue Date: July 11, 2019Janie Thibodeau Martin There are several ways to tell our dairy industry, here in the "dairyland" state, is in big trouble. The hard fact is we lost 300 dairy farms, mostly "family owned/operated," perhaps with some hired help, between January and May of this year. In April alone 90 ceased operation, about three per day that month.
I can see the trend looking through the local "shopping gazette" delivered to my mailbox. The last four pages are often devoted to "complete herd dispersal" auctions, including not long ago a venerable farm with hig...
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