Contents

Chapter 1: Country Living
In the Morning – Born to be Rural – If You Live in the Country, Wave – The Tree Swing – Skipping Stones – Out of Line – Country Hardball – Reading the News Backwards – Sunday Drive -- New Neighbors – Pardon My Language, It's My Boots Talkin' – View From The Trees – Where Oliver Found His Place – Incidents in a Small Town –  Ground Truthing Crop Circles ~ A Fist Full of Memories ~ Out Walking ~ Listen ~ Harvest Moon Eclipse ~ Barn Dance ~ Silent Sentinel of Crop Protection – In the Quiet – If It's Thursday Night, It's Bullseyes – Winter Lights – Midwinter Delusions – Gone Fishing – A Winter's Sleep – Family Values
 
Chapter 2: Animals
Uninvited Guests – Stay at Home Geese – Peril of Life With Pets – A Man and His Dog – We've Flown the Coop – Playing Ball – Canine Alter Ego – Bird Wars – Beware of Bambi – Strays – Night Life – Harnessing an Instinct – Rare Breeds – Country Music – Roadkill – Livestock Getaways – The Animals Within – A Wing and a Prayer – Not Far Removed – Cow Tipping – Where Did Dogs Come From?  – A Bite Most Deadly –  Small Souls

Chapter 3: Weather Windbreak -- Passing Clouds -- Keeping a Tornado Watch -- In the Hailstreak – A Change in the Weather – Man in the Moon – The Dog Days of Summer – Signs of the Weather – Weather Modification – Lightning Strikes – Equinox – Some Summer Days – Cold Hardening – The Sun Stands Still – Dark of Winter – What the Snow Reveals – A Chance of Showers – Rhymes With Weather Chapter 4: Tools In Praise of Older Trucks – Confessions of a Latter-Day Luddite – On the Block – Old Iron Disease – Witching – What Logs to Burn – Pushing Progress – Good Fences, Bad Neighbors – Privy to History – For The Love of Tractors – Real Cowboy Hats – Solar Reflections – Hitched to History – Scanning for News

Chapter 5: Growth
Full Bloom – Harvest Song – No Mere Coincidence – Parasites – Give Eggs a Break – The Natural – The Northern Spy and Other Edible Antiques – Know Your Oats – Yellow and Ripe with Autumn – The Gardener’s Redemption – Sacrificial Cells – Raspberry Rhapsody – Blossoms – Touching Discovery – Grandpa's Seed

Chapter 6: Self-Reliance
Rural Economics – Campgrounds of the Dispossessed – Sweet Spot– The World in Hattie's Jars – Who’s Whistling? – Against All Odds – Hippie Hoedads – Quondam Mechanics – Ascent of Man – Signs of Trouble  – To Market, To Market – "So God Made A Farmer"  –  A Place of Our Own – Folks – Christmas Letter – October Leaves – How to Make a Jack-o-Lantern – Boundary Art – The Stories We Tell – Our Place – Moving Away – A Carol's Tale – The Porch – Home for the Holidays – Final Harvest

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