Tag: outdoors
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Rural Routes
For 25 years, from 1982 to 2007, I wrote a weekly column that appeared in the Portage Daily Graphic and the Herald Leader Press, both published out of Portage la Prairie, MB. Entitled ‘Rural Routes’, the column was mostly about day-to-day life on the farm. In 2000, I self-published a compilation of excerpts from those…
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SKUNKED
SKUNKED Two days ago, my mother-in-law spotted four baby skunks along the road to our farm and was concerned about their proximity to her yard. I was not empathetic. As I told my husband K, the skunks were not hurting anyone. And besides, baby skunks are cute. That same night, I was awakened by a…
Rural Routes, Blog Version 