I arose from this, to write just for you Another week in the bag, like a late night snipe. Did you ever have someone who cared enough for you to take you snipe hunting? Few if any young folks these days will ever know the sheer joy of bagging a snipe and having a snipe supper feast the following evening, if your mommer cared enough for you to makes grits and biscuits to go with it. Unless Tencent or Sony produce a video game called, "Snipe Hunt," young folks today will look a

Kang and Emporer Wade 1st, Princes Conway & Merle, ruler of all of the Canoochee-Garfield Metropolitan area, and Emporer of all of Pinetucky I know some of you have murmerred a bit about my crown and why it is really a half-crown, have you seen the price of gold lately? Have you seen the cost of shicken these days? We are not a wealthy kangdom, at all. I know as your Kang, I have always run on the platform of not taxing squirrel eggs, nor pine cones from oak trees, but that m

HEY Y'ALL Welcome my friends. Let's sit and talk about some things. For some reason saying that brought to mind one of my favorite bluegrass tunes, "Hot Corn, Cold Corn." Many recorded it over the years including Flatt and Scruggs, but my hands-down favorite was "Ole Strang," Stringbean's version. The line I thought of was, "come along boys, make less noise while the old folks is sleeping, come on down to the barnyard and have us a little banjer pickin'." In that song, the co

Tuesday, April 21, 2026 HEY YOU! YEAH, YOU! Hello. It's nice to see ya. It's been a long tiiiiiiii...oops, wow, oh shoot, gosh, I sure am glad I caught myself! I was getting really close to sounding like "him," that guy with the bouffant hair that couldn't sing worth a whit. I am glad I pulled out of that dive, woof, man, that was a close'un. My hands are still shaking. Lawd'amercy, now that was a close call! Let's start over. Howdeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Oh, heck fire, now I

Monday, April 20, 2026 It is once more Monday, and like all of the recent ones, it is a dry one. Our forecasts say some rain later in the week, but they said that last week but it was all frittered away before we got any. I would so love to sit under my carport watching it rain all day. We say the words about our concern for the farmers, and many pray daily asking God for rain for them and for us. But, you must be a farmer to understand the import (no, I did not mean to use t