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Weed harvest
Dear Editor,
This time of year is not only harvest time for wheat and my garden produce but also weeds, as the picture shows.
When I find and cut a large weed out, I let it set on the sidewalk for a couple days in full sun.
Once dried, it can be bundled up in quarter-pound bales. then placed in a graveyard, bone-dry place.
When the urge strikes me in the evening between my split shift jobs, I enjoy having a log fire in my copper bowl on the deck.
It throws my spirit back to a time just 100 years ago, before there was an income tax or sales taxes.
A time when there were 3,000 country schools and today there are none. A time before any world wars and the terrible cost in dollars and lives lost.
So instead of buying factory-made fire starter, collect your own for free. Few thing in life match using flint and steel to make a fire as our ancestors did for hundreds of years. As for entertainment, see if you can make a smokeless fire, or one that would make a good signal fire.
The more you can live in the past, the less you need fear the future.
Bill Donze
McCook