Around the end of August, school buses will be on the roads again carrying children back and forth to school. Why, some kids have to rise before daylight to be able to catch the bus. Some might have an hour ride to get to their school. Not only school bus drivers, but bus mechanics work hard to keep the buses maintained and as safe as they can for our...
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If you have ever visited a large flea market, you know that you might run across anything for sale. Why, it might be an African water bottle like I found at the Rockingham market several weeks ago, or just a bag of fresh cooked pork skins. Seems if you go earlier or often enough, there is no limit to what you can find. When walking up one row of vendors...
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Now-a-days during the month of August children are returning from camp or vacations. Within the next few weeks they will be headed back to school. Clothes and school supplies have to be bought and whatever else that is required for the start of the school year. When I was a young lad back in the fifties, I wasn’t thinking much about starting a new school...
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Most folks have enjoyed eating a tomato sandwich, but what about a tomato biscuit? Both are prepared basically the same way and that’s with fresh sliced tomatoes, plenty of salt and pepper, Duke’s Mayonnaise, and bread. I know I’m going to get a little slack from our northern neighbors on the kind of mayo to use, but everyone to his own. When I was a young...
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Several years ago I got the notion to make some home-make walking staffs. You know the way folks used to make them. Well I had plenty of young oak saplings growing on my place and a little time on my hands. The only tool I didn’t have to make a staff was a drawing knife to scale the bark off. The problem was solved when my wife’s cousin, Edward Snyder,...
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Who doesn’t like homegrown tomatoes? Why they’re good for breakfast, dinner, and supper, or even a snack. Eat them right out of the patch, between two pieces of bread with plenty of Duke’s mayonnaise or in a fresh salad. There is no wrong way to eat a good homegrown tomato. The history of the tomato goes back to about 500 A.D. The fruit was first...
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