This has nothing to do with veterinary medicine, but I’d like to share it with you. You know how you’re supposed to get five servings of fruit and vegetables every day? And that you practically never do? This stuff is a fruit "smoothie" that has no sugar added, and is made from nothing but […]
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In the fall of 1973, I started working at the Equine Center of the College of Veterinary Medicine. I stocked shelves, cleaned and sterilized instruments, fetched and carried, swept and mopped, and shoveled out many a stall. At the end of the semester, I spent most of what I had earned on my dream stereo […]
The Cherokee District of the Boy Scouts held its annual Klondike Derby this weekend. This is one of the three district-wide camporees where all the troops in Southeast Missouri get together to camp, get acquainted, and have fun competing in activities using their Scout skills. The Klondike is always held in the winter (hence the […]
When I was growing up, I’d say that two thirds of the shows on TV were Westerns, "oaters", "horse operas". That was just in prime time. On Saturday mornings I’d get up at six AM and watch the test pattern Indian until Hopalong Cassidy came on. The first piece of classical music I came to […]
Last fall I had the privilege of serving on the instructor staff of Wood Badge Course 37-06. You can see from this chorus line that it’s a fun group, though it involves a lot of work and time. When new boys enter the Scouting program, they bring new parents with them. These new leaders […]
The Cherokee District scouters held their annual recognition dinner tonight. It was a lovely banquet. I have been the District Commissioner for three (and a half) years. Tonight I got my walking papers (okay, it’s a wooden plaque). Of course, our district’s volunteers are a great bunch, but they’re not a big bunch. That means […]
I had lots of paperwork that needed doing Saturday afternoon after we finished seeing our regular patients. It still needs doing. The temp was 53 and "partly cloudy", which means that a motorcyclist is hoping for partly sunny. I bundled up and saddled Ol’ Red. I had worked through most of the New Year’s holiday […]
At the Kiwanis meeting on Wednesday, our treasurer announced that the club had received a bill for safety-deposit box rental from Kennett National Bank. This was the first billing she had received for the box. She was not aware that we even had such a box and wondered what was in it. It developed that […]
There is a small balcony overlooking the sanctuary in the First Presbyterian Church. Tradition holds that it was built (a hundred years ago) to seat the hired help who came to worship with (though not seated with) the rest of the congregation. One ascends to this lofty, if somewhat cramped, perch by a narrow, spiral […]
About thirty years ago, Viretta Sexton became the choir director at the First Presbyterian Church in Kennett. She is a hugely talented musician and choral director. At that time, her only outlet for that talent and energy was the church choir, and the Christmas Eve musical services were big productions. The choir began working months […]