Entropy

Good morning.  I’m repeating this column from 2010 because, if anything, the irresistible force of entropy has gotten even stronger since then.  In the past couple of weeks, things around Whiskey Creek that I didn’t even know were working have...

Entropy

If you’re like me, you look forward to the second Sunday of each month because that one of Bert Daniel’s Welcome column days–yes, he’s one of only two of our writers that does TWO columns per month.  Well, Bert’s indisposed today so...

Entropy

Before addressing the topic I’ve chosen for today, a brief update on Sarafina, our llama who I reported last week in my Welcome column was ill. She’d started losing her appetite a month ago and for the past couple weeks had stopped eating altogether. On Friday I...

Entropy

Before addressing the topic I’ve chosen for today, a brief update on Sarafina, our llama who I reported last week in my Welcome column was ill. She’d started losing her appetite a month ago and for the past couple weeks had stopped eating altogether. On Friday I...

Erin go… cough

Dear friends, Happy St. Patrick’s Day, grassers. Why we should celebrate anyone who was so anti-reptile is beyond me, but hey, any excuse for a party. Stay away from green beer and don’t drink and drive, please. Hopefully everyone got a sample of the innumerable...

Everything I Know I Learned From Bluegrass

Thanks to the colorful nature of bluegrass lyrics, I can learn much of what I need to know just by listening to the songs. I know the skies in Ol’ Kentucky are “so blue” – which I have verified since first hearing it. I have learned that you may be able to find a...