Golfers look forward to the day they can shoot their age. I play golf three times a week in groups with Fran Bertram, 81, and once a week with John Patrell, 80. Fran has been shooting his age over 10 years (and still is) some 150-plus times. John took 13 holes to shoot his age […]
Doubling up: 2 favorite topics in one column Bacon ‘n Shayna! If you’re not interested in either of these subjects perhaps you will tune in next week when I try to explain the origin of the universe, how automobile companies know how to build cars that get 1,000 miles per fill up (but won’t manufacture […]
About a month ago I read, heard or smelled that bright colors were ‘in? for men this Spring. So, I immediately bought a yellow, short sleeve shirt. If I have a favorite color it’s yellow. Mommy’s influence. In the good ol? days of golf, wild colors were the rule on the links. Plaid slacks or […]
Does your train of thought have a caboose? Don’t you think talk radio has way too much talk? I missed the National Hockey League. Did I sleep through it?? Enough with the questions. Here’s a favorite license plate: PB4WEGO. We’re into the golf season, and here’s a golf- ing definition John Patrell would like you […]
Here, Shayna; come girl; Don’t leave me, Shayna For exercise I like to walk. And so my dog doesn’t get bored I’ve taken to finding/visiting new, exciting places to exercise. On a recent day the new ‘exciting? place was Meijer’s parking lot in Oxford. It’s a half-mile around the extreme edges of their property, by […]
I loved the riff between UAW president Ron Gettlefinger and Marine Lt. Col. Joe Rutledge. If you recall, in mid-March Gettlefinger banned Marine reserves from parking their foreign cars with Bush bumper stickers from parking in the Union lot. Nothing wrong so far. Having served in the Navy in the Pacific theater during WWII I […]
Manure spreaders were not invented as a joke I was born on a farm in Laingsburg, Michigan. Though Dad wasn’t a farmer, he played at it. Other farms we lived on in Shiawassee County were near Bancroft, Durand and Vernon. We had chickens and hogs, not cows, hay, grain or the machinery to plant, care […]
A personal letter to my dog, Shayna Dear Shayna, I have come to the conclusion that you have selective hearing, so I’m going to see if your reading would bring better results. When I say move, in either a mild or forceful voice, it means putting your whole body someplace else, not rolling your eyes […]
Granddaughter Karen qualified for the Michigan High School Athletic Association Ski Tournament, which was Monday, Feb. 28. She skis with the Brandon-Oxford ski team She reminded me I hadn’t seen her ski in any of the tournaments this year, so I got the hint and went to this one. It wasn’t a hint, it was […]
When you call the office of an elected official (at any level of government) and you get a recording saying, ‘I’m either taking another call or out of the office,? don’t you first assume they are attending a conference in Orlando or the Bahamas? Especially in February? Ms. Granholm, please explain to me again, remembering […]