Monday, December 31, 2012

Country Medicine




What the mouse saw.

How many farm families are served by small medical facilities?   Does anyone think about that?   One such not quite so small facility is the Borgess Pipp Hospital in Plainwell Michigan.   It was in the emergency room of this medical facility where a serious case of pneumonia was diagnosed to require admission to the main hospital twenty miles away.   Without the links between the small facilities and a major hospital, it is questionable whether proper diagnosis, and treatment would bring about the desirable result of recovery and return home.

So, once again home, recovering from a most memorable experience, there is the opportunity of viewing the silhouette of the Christmas Tree against the full misty winter moon.   A Christmas that will, though delayed, once again be celebrated with a most treasured family.

Sunday, October 7, 2012

The drought has broken, and fall approaches.

Once again, the trees prepare for the coming winter.  It has been a long hot summer.   Farmers felt compelled to irrigate their crops this year, as never before.  


Yet the season has ended, and the crops are being harvested.   Will we return to normal weather patterns, or will the aberrations continue?  Time will tell.

Friday, April 6, 2012

A brighter future!


South of Alma, North of Ithica, East of 127 on the eastern side of the state, a new wind farm is going up. Power for homes and industry that will never run out.