Tag 'spring'

May 21, 2021 by Marty

Rain is like confetti from the sky!

I always try to listen and plan accordingly to my friend KAKE-TV Meteorologist Frank Waugh when it comes to the weather forecast. When Frank says it’s going to rain, it’ll rain.

October 9, 2020 by Marty

Bring a Bit of Holland Home.

I had just graduated from Wichita High School North, and my summer destination was to be Eikenlaan 12, Bennebroek Holland. My parents, along with the Heemskerks (Jon Heemskerk was our Dutch Bulb supplier at the time) had arranged for me and their son Niels to trade places for the summer.

April 8, 2020 by Marty

There's not much better therapy than getting earth on your hands.

I’ve had the thought that I would ride my bike on the Tour Divide every summer as long as I was able to do so. Being in my mid-60’s, I knew there would be one day that I wouldn’t be able to. With my good friends Hal Russel and Rick Ashton in their 70’s still riding from Banff AB, Canada to Antelope Wells, New Mexico along the Continental Divide, I didn’t know if I’d ever catch them - age wise.

March 6, 2020 by Marty

I'm with Phil. (He promised an early spring.)

With the great temperatures we are experiencing this week, I’ll go out on a limb and say that spring has sprung. Something I learned last week while on the mid- day news at KAKE TV, is that March 1st is the “meteorological” first day of spring. In the back of my mind, I have always felt that the four seasons seem to start about a month or so earlier than the official changing of the seasons.