The weather has been just fantastic here in Nodaway County this past week with temperatures hitting the upper 80s during the daytime hours and dipping down into the 60s overnight. The humidity has also been quite tolerable making outside activities quite enjoyable

My husband entered the kitchen, walked right up to me and uttered a phrase never before said in the history of mankind.

Wow! I thought for about an hour or so Sunday afternoon I was caught up in a time warp.

Turning 60 — well, any age for that matter — is inevitable. It’s something that is expected from the time a person is born. Granted, not everyone has the opportunity to reach the lofty age of 60, but there are many who do.

We are experiencing some pretty nice weather in the middle of August here in Nodaway County. Although it has been hot with high humidity, it certainly could be a lot worse. It seems like it has been several years since we all worried about hot drying winds blowing out of Kansas burning up crops and no rain predicted for the entire 10 day forecast.

Maybe it is a sign of maturity. Maybe nostalgia?

I don’t really know, but I catch myself thinking back more often to how things used to be. Maybe I just don’t have as much to think about these days, I don’t know for sure. But I do know things are different.

Bad news! My performance for the annual B.J. Town and Country Days celebration will have to be cancelled for this year.. That’s right. My belly dancing routine is just not going to happen this year.

Our three-year-old must have been going through some kind of past-life storming the beach at Normandy trauma while her mother, brother and I were trying to eat. 

We were in public … at a busy restaurant.

We are finally getting some relief from the hot humid days that plagued us for several weeks here in Nodaway County. The cool front that moved through our area this past weekend not only brought us some much needed rain, even as "spotty" as it was, but cool temperatures that seem almost cold in the early morning hours and late evenings. It is a welcome change after watching the corn leaves roll up tight and the soybeans go almost dormant with the blooms drying up and falling off.

Very hot weather has hit us here in Nodaway County due to a high pressure "dome" that the science fiction forecasters say is "parked" right over the top of us.

I suppose if I wanted to fancy myself as a really up-to-date journalist, I would make more of an effort to be recognized as a “blogger” rather than the more traditional, but now passé, “columnist.”

My oh my, the trouble you get yourself into when you can't say "no."

I guess we must be in what I have heard all my life called "the dog days" of summer.

Nothing brings out the stupid like a summer vacation and a little family rivalry.

And people in their 40s should sign medical waivers before performing cannonballs and back flips off a lakeside swimming dock.

There are jobs that are fun to do; jobs that folks around the office line up to do.

There are other jobs, when those same folks trip over each other scrambling to get out of the way when the boss comes looking.

I was perusing an internet news site the other day and a headline jumped out at me, causing me grave concern. It said Baskin-Robbins was retiring five of their flavors to the permanent deep freeze — the big deep freeze in the sky, I'd imagine.

I suspect that very few of us subscribe to all of Al Gore's theory on global warming and climate change. I would suspect that we humans would be very pretentious believing that our actions alone can change this planet's weather in such a short time frame that is merely a blink of an eye considering the duration of Earth's life.

How do you figure out this younger generation?

Less than two weeks after gathering with granddad (“Tiger,” to them) to celebrate my mother’s 100th birthday on the Fourth of July, the Fort Worth crew loaded off on a grand trip to England and Ireland. I was invited, but had to decline — at least the folks down at the bank suggested that was the better decision for me right now.

Ah, Yes! It's fair time again in Nodaway County. Beginning the last week in June with the Independence Day celebration in Elmo and continuing through Labor Day weekend, we, the citizens of this great county, will be frequenting these annual events.

There is nothing like the sound of chainsaws on a hot sultry Sunday to make the deep snows of winter a bit more attractive.