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Al Batt: Financial realities of baseball cards

Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting This has been a day to remember. Why is that? I don’t ...

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Al Batt: Song of the songbirds

Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting A drought is a terrible thing. It said it’s going to rain ...

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Al Batt: The joys of pie

Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting The power was out in town for a few hours last night. ...

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Al Batt: Dogs can’t whistle

Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting Do you ever wonder why we can’t hear dog whistles? Yeah, why ...

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Al Batt: Buttering that bread

Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting I’m in a rut. Sometimes I wonder what I’m doing here. Oh, ...

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Al Batt: When someone holding a flyswatter says, ‘Don’t move!’

Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting My wife is always correcting me. I told her, “Judy, quit correcting ...

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Al Batt: Naming our mouse relocation program

Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting Hot enough for you? No, I wish it were hot enough to ...

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Al Batt: Picking up pebbles

Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting Do you have mosquitoes around here? Big ones. See that eagle over ...

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Al Batt: Featuring Big Tiny Little, Jr. at the Piano

Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting I ate at the Eat Around It Cafe. They ran out of ...

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Al Batt: People hate math until they get a receipt

Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting I didn’t catch a single fish on my trip to  Ontario.  How ...

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Al Batt: Sniffing the south end of a porcupine

Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting I’m glad it’s summer and not winter. Do you like hot, muggy weather? ...

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Al Batt: I wrote this while not rubbing a potato on my eyeglasses

Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting I had a Great Uncle August. My mother talked often about his funeral. ...

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Al Batt: No treating the cast like a piñata

Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting My dog can find anything I ask it to. What kind of dog ...

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Al Batt: A wish for rain

Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting I dropped my watch into the Le Sueur River and a year ...

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Al Batt: Overwhelming photo labeling

Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting Do you still have that book I gave you for your birthday? ...

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