Al Batt
Baseball and bird watching
“What is the secret of a long marriage?” A husband and a wife should never be mad at ...
Al Batt
Chicken dairy was short-lived
I was at an eatery in a small town where four out of five people make up 80 ...
Al Batt
Man does not live by bread alone
1. Man does not live by bread alone. He needs peanut butter, too.
Al Batt
Party lines were chance to work in a comment
Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting. “I can’t remember anything today.” “Some days are like that.” “I hope ...
Al Batt
Time to recover from summer, wait for winter
Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting “I’ve been wearing some of those magnetic bracelets that are supposed to ...
Al Batt
Past, future come together at area fair
I was sweating the small stuff. I was helping herd five grandchildren around the fairgrounds on a hot ...
Al Batt
Google has robbed us of fridge pickle arguments
My wife, She Who Must Be Obeyed, asked why I don’t like refrigerator pickles.
Al Batt
Poison ivy: It’s wherever you might want to be
My neighbor says that he doesn’t mind when names escape him nearly as much as he minds how ...
Al Batt
Needed now: Cell phone app that cools the hot air
Alex Johnston of Albert Lea told me that he had obtained an iPhone. A cellphone is very important ...
Al Batt
Softball games a nervous breakdown split by innings
I sat on bleachers hard enough to cut diamonds and watched a granddaughter pitch softball. She threw incredibly ...
Al Batt
Memories are sweet at class reunions
The actor Monty Woolley was at a dinner party when he belched loudly. A woman sitting nearby gasped ...
Al Batt
Advice on shooing off skunk turned out to be a stinker
John Beal of Faribault writes that his uncle, Clarence Beal of Milan, Minn., had a skunk enter the ...
Al Batt
Ump to coach: ‘You’re just upset because we’re winning’
It didn’t seem as though the umpire was giving my team the benefit of the doubt. To my ...
Al Batt
Sensible shoos a better choice than bug zapper
“Do you own a bug zapper?” No. Countless studies have proven that they aren’t effective in attracting mosquitoes, ...
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