Rural Delivery
Essays on the rural experience.
by Michael Hofferber

Trade paperback, 142 pages.
Outrider Books, 2006.
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Contents

Chapter 1: Country Living

Morning – Born to be Rural -- If You Live in the Country, Wave -- The Tree Swing – Skipping Stones – Country Hardball – Reading the News Backwards – Sunday Drive -- New NieghborsPardon My Language, It's My Boots Talkin' – Incidents in a Small Town – Out Walking -- Harvest Moon Eclipse In the Quiet – Winter Lights – Gone Fishing – Family Values

Chapter 2: Animals

Uninvited Guests – Peril of Life With Pets – A Man and His Dog -- We've Flown the Coop – Playing Ball -- Bird Wars -- Strays -- Night Life -- Country Music -- Roadkill -- Livestock Getaways – The Animals Within -- A Wing and a Prayer -- Not Far Removed -- Cow Tipping  – A Bite Most Deadly –  Small Souls

Chapter 3: Weather 

Windbreak -- Passing Clouds -- Keeping a Tornado Watch -- In the Hailstreak -- Dog Days of Summer -- Weather Modification -- Some Summer Days -- Cold Hardening -- The Solstice Sun Stands Still -- Rhymes With Weather



Chapter 4: Tools

In Praise of Older Trucks -- Confessions of a Latter-Day Luddite -- On the Block -- Witching -- What Logs to Burn -- Pushing Progress -- Privy to History -- Old Iron Disease  ~~ For the Love of Tractors









Chapter 5: Growth

Harvest Song -- No Mere Coincidence -- Parasites -- Know Your Oats – The Gardener’s Redemption -- Raspberry Rhapsody -- Blossoms –  Grandpa's Seed 
Chapter 6: Self-Reliance
Rural Economics -- Campgrounds of the Dispossessed -- Who’s Whistling? --Hippie Hoedads -- Quondam Mechanics -- Folks -- October Leaves -- Boundary Art -- Our Place – The Porch -- Final Harvest

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