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What happens in Missouri should stay in Missouri

Dani — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:10:11 +0000

I tried to keep things simple. That is why I suggested to my husband Ken that he just saddle him up and ride him on over to Nana’s. Privately, I believe Ken feared he could not stay on for the required eight seconds. Or perhaps he feared the aftermath of falling [...]

Canned food storage rack made easy

Dani — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 04:24:07 +0000

At the urging of several friends, I have completed plans for a homemade food storage rack like the one I built several years ago. They are available at the bottom of this post. A few years ago, I did a vague post with a couple of photos of the rack that I drew inspiration from, but [...]

Slipforming, part 18 – The Bogart Home

Dani — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:07:44 +0000

This post follows Slipforming, part 17 – Turret’s Syndrome. To see a complete index of slipforming posts, click here. For an index of comical posts, click here. Ken Bogart, who lives in New York, was inspired to build a slip-formed stone home and has graciously agreed to [...]

Elmo cures cancer

Dani — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:26:43 +0000

This post follows Some girls ruin all the fun. To see a complete index of slipforming posts, click here. For an index of comical posts, click here. *Yippee! This article just won First Place in the Humorous Column category of the Colorado Press Association Class 2 Weekly Newspaper competition for [...]

Slipforming, part 17 – Turret’s syndrome

Dani — Wed, 11 May 2011 17:09:10 +0000

This post follows Slipforming, part 16 – Balcony railing…at last. To see a complete index of slipforming posts, click here. For an index of comical posts, click here. I’m calling this chapter “Turret’s syndrome” not because I intend to mis-spell and discuss Tourette’s Syndrome, which, for those who do not know, is an [...]

Some girls ruin all the fun

Dani — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:31:59 +0000

Of course, I’m speaking of Heidi. In the last column I mentioned that she had shown up with a new boyfriend who got initiated to our clan by way of Ken’s chicken pen…er…cathedral. Jayde, as I must now call him—instead of buggar, eraser head and hey you—is a great guy. Just the kind of [...]

Chicken mansion and the renegade hens

Dani — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:33:32 +0000

I repeatedly mention that my husband is from Denver. It explains his innocence and gullibility and his resistance to accepting my core Redneck values. Last spring we bought some chicks from the farm store. Buff Orpingtons. Golden Rolls Royce’s of the chicken world. They were cute. They were fuzzy. They quickly morphed into flapping balls [...]

Slipforming, part 16 – Balcony railing…at last

Dani — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:17:37 +0000

This post follows Slipforming, part 15 – Snow and the balcony. To see a complete index of slipforming posts, click here. For an index of comical posts, click here. So, some people wonder how Ken and I have stayed married so happily for so long. It’s easy. Whenever we come across a problem we do [...]

In the Buff–Orpingtons, that is

Dani — Fri, 28 May 2010 19:44:49 +0000

Ken’s from the city. He thought when I said I wanted fertilizer for the flower gardens that I meant for him to buy a bag of the stuff at the local garden center. Silly Ken. In the world of chickens, the Buff Orpington variety are big, fat hens that are hardy and lay brown eggs. [...]

Colorado Tax liens for high school students

Dani — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:02:10 +0000

To see a complete index of slipforming posts, click here. For an index of comical posts, click here. Colorado tax lien sales are a mystery to a lot of people. For that reason, I took my freshly-turned-18-year-old out of school to attend her first tax lien sale in nearby Montrose County. She was wide-eyed at the [...]