How odd. I’m watching TV the last several nights and that familiar weather crawl comes scrolling across the bottom of the screen announcing school closings all across Keloland. What the heck is going on? Did I fall into some sort of Rip Van Winkle-like slumber and suddenly its wintertime; with blizzards keeping our kids homebound?…
I’ve been a fan of auto racing since my dad took us to the races at some small dirt track near Lake Poinsett when I was a little kid. During my two years living in Pierre, I never missed a Sunday night at Oahe Speedway..even tried my hand at it ONCE. A guy I worked…
I was driving down to the Keloland studios this morning and couldn’t help but notice a couple things; Hoekness produce stand on the Austad’s east 20th street parking lot had just received another big flatbed full of sweet corn and people in the right lane were making dangerous moves across the flow of traffic so…
I love cars; always have. No one was more anxious to turn 16 than me so that I could get a driver’s license. Finally, when the day arrived, my mom took me to the Brookings Country Courthouse to put an end to my anxiety. I zipped through the written test but, during the driving part,…
Our first day back home and it’s raining which seems odd since we just left some of the world’s traditional rainy spots, Ketchikan, Alaska, (which was sunny on both days of our visit) Vancouver, Canada and Seattle, Washington which both are undergoing one of the worst droughts in memory. In my recent blogs, I’ve been…