Yesterday afternoon when I was driving the elementary school kids home a conflict arose between a couple of boys. I didn’t see what happened, I didn’t hear what happened, I just heard two of the kids calling out to me that one of the other kids was “bothering” them. So I told the “accused” kid [...]

Over the past week or so, there have been a few times when the school bus has driven through a “stinky” pocket of air.  Last week it was a pocket of the odor of fertilizer, today it was a dead skunk in the road.  It has been so funny to observe the reactions of the [...]

This afternoon I was driving the school kids home on the bus.  The day was very warm, so the windows were down.  I really could not see the farmland we were driving past, but I could certainly smell the odor of chicken manure fertilizer on the breeze!  The kids were all complaining “what’s that smell?”  [...]

Every couple of days a new rubber ball, about the size of a softball, appears on our front lawn.  I don’t know where they are coming from, or why they are appearing here.  My hubby thinks that one of our neighbors is finding them on his lawn and throwing them on our lawn.  That could [...]

I have to admit that I am quite surprised how quickly to roads and bridges flood around here.  It does not seem that we get all that much rain to be having that happen!  But every single time it rains, when I go out driving, it seems that I see lots of areas where the [...]