Talking about the weather is no laughing matter in these parts.

A few yee-haws would have come in handy. Following the herd—critter or human—no matter how small, has never been a habit of mine. So when I walked out of church on Sunday and faced a local family’s 4-H project on the loose, I almost turned tail myself.

The old saying, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure‚” came true for a friend recently, when she placed a giant dumpster in their front yard.

A recent headline in a neighboring newspaper proclaimed the return of one of our northwest Colorado species with great fanfare — “Wolverine Returns.”

Recently one of the readers of this newspaper called the editor to report that people were complaining about too much of a focus on local news.

Mention cowboy fare, and most of us think of beans, beans and more beans.