Two of the B&B guests  here for a wedding in the area last weekend stayed an extra day to take in more of what our area has to offer.  Met them in Colchester on Sunday after the parade.  They…

  The holidays are the worst.  If you are a widow or a widower, you know what I mean.  Thanksgiving and Christmas, there are other people around so they usually are not so bad.  Then there is Labor Day.  It…

  In April the Voice printed a map of the future location of wind turbines in McDonough and Warren counties.  Since I have a physics degree and am very much in favor of conservation and trying to save our planet…

  Many years ago when I taught at Central, I taught with Anna Veile. I see her son Bernie often at auctions. Her family lived in Camp Point.  Noted in the paper that she passed away on Wednesday.  Our sympathy…

  Noticed that two of my kitties were eating a lot more.  Then I noticed that they were getting their water dirty.  Have to admit that I was a lot slow about the fact that a coon was getting into…

  A really big thank you to Donna Harrison who headed the Back Pack Giveaway at Living Faith United Methodist Church in Bowen today.  The give away is open to all students in the Southeastern School District.  We served 76…

Have decided it is “all downhill” from Bloomington to Plymouth.  My van has a mileage setting.  The miles per gallon kept increasing on the way home.  As a result, the distance to empty decreased very little.  I find it hard…

  Our sympathy to the family of Analie Wright of Plymouth who passed away on July 16th.   Saw her every year at the Tennessee School Reunion. Also our sympathy to the family of Gladys Koehser of Quincy.  She died on…

  I was asked to help judge 4H projects in Carthage on Monday.  Was happy to help as 4H was a great part of my formative years.  4H made it possible for me to  speak before people.  “Back in the…

Hope you had a great 4th of July week.  I know one of my neighbors has.  Hopefully they run out of those really loud, house shaking fireworks soon! On Monday evening I went to Quincy to the “Celebrate America” concert…