If you have been like us you have been busy watching the Olympics and the summer Olympics have so much to offer. The events in the summer Olympics include archery, badminton, baseball, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, diving, equestrian, fencing, football (soccer), gymnastics, handball, ...

The summer is going so fast it's hard for me to realize fair time is here. Some are already over. County Fairs are full of traditions and good feelings and it is always a good feeling to enjoy a few hours there. When it comes to local traditions, few are so enduring as a 4-H fair. For children ...

How are you getting along with this hot weather? I know if I was a kid again I'd be hanging out at the pool. I suppose I could still do that, but it's too darn hot to even change my clothes to do that and I don't even like getting into a hot car even though I know the air will soon kick in. It ...

Another 4th of July in Reinbeck is over, and I have to admit we didn't take in as much as we usually do, the heat was just too much. Summer seems to be too much. I don't know if it was the heat or not, but I had the summer flu this last weekend and I'm still fighting the dizziness and blah ...

Have you ever had a few days that were just out of control-well, I'm having one. The Courier called a few minutes ago and said they hadn't seen my article yet, "It's an early week." I have been quite preoccupied. Our daughter, Vicki, is at our house waiting to go to Germany later this week. ...

Everybody's favorite season will soon be here. For children, summer brings wonderful warm weather and that glorious feeling of freedom from shoes, schedules and the indoors. For all of us adults (even those whose jobs are 9 to 5) weekdays don't end when summer starts. It is just the time to ...

Father's Day: 2012, what memories a day like this can open for us. Being a father has to have its hassles, a load of expense and a certain amount of frustrations. Fatherhood, like motherhood, can't all be happy times, but enough of them are. It's one of those things, that once you've been given ...

It's getting that time of year when home-grown strawberries are back in town. Many of you have your own strawberry patch. I know when I had one the whole family anxiously waited for those luscious berries to ripen. Now I buy them in the store, or go to a pick-um place. This year we went to ...

As I write this it doesn't feel like lovely day in June. However, it is the season when strawberries are back in town. That wonderful season of that tasty little red berry. The large imported strawberries have been in the stores the last six weeks and they have been remarkably good, but the ...

May is a month for remembering. Traditionally graves of loved ones are adorned with flowers on Decoration Day, cemeteries are trimmed and pruned to look their finest for the many visitors who come from miles away to pay tribute to their deceased loved ones. When I was a child it was called ...