Snowfall On Iowa Farm
Month: October 2019
Wildflower Sunday
When The Crackers Have Gluten, And Gluten Makes Your Date Homicidal
Depression-Era Santa Starved From Lack Of Milk & Cookies
Actually, Santa wasn’t the one lacking that year. The UT Zeta house hosted a Christmas party for needy children, and a makeshift Santa proved too svelte for the outfit. It does make you wonder if folks left out perfectly good milk and cookies for Santa during the lean years.
The irony is that the tradition didn’t even START until the lean years. In an era of such economic hardship, many parents used the gesture as an example of generosity and gratitude for the gifts they would receive on Christmas Day. The Greatest Generation indeed.
Halloween 1949
It’s Halloween of 1949 at the University of Texas at Austin, and Nautical Nellie is excited to see the ghoulish costumes of her peers. 
Just a girl and her horse. That seems normal, right?
When The Hallmark Movie Is A Rerun
Hybrid Cats & Hybrid Corn
Four-year-old Trent Petersen enjoys three parts corn to one part cat at his family’s farm in Exira, Iowa.
Only Interesting People
Ooh-la-la! Très exclusive. Only for the interesting people! Why, you’ll find novelists, actresses, professors, and big-game hunters on French Line! Only the best and brightest are allowed aboard, where they serve table wine complimentary. Much fancy! The servers even speak the English because that’s civilized.
One wonders how the French ever got pegged with a rep for snobbery.
Slick City Street
“Children Are A Poor Man’s Riches” – English Proverb
What a blessing has Johann Inauen, and I don’t mean his pipe. Son Reto could not be more smitten with papa, enjoying a childhood on a small Appenzell dairy farm in Switzerland. Idyllic indeed.
Falling Into Place
Great-Aunt Minnie Loved Her Some Charles Marion Russell
*CMR created over 2000 Old West paintings, such as the one above.
I Don't Get It 