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		<title>Sherlock Holmes visits community barber</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 12:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles I heard the rumor down at the feed store, later in the afternoon. We had a real live Sherlock Holmes in our community, and he was our local barber, Curtis Naismith. What do you mean?” I asked Julie, the stout girl hired to carry 100-pound sacks of grain out to waiting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our dentist, Perry is a unique blessing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 12:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles Those of us who call this little valley home have a unique blessing in the form of Perry, our dentist. Yes, when we go to get the fangs fixed up at O’Dontall Dental, down in the old brick building near the office of the Valley Weekly Miracle, the grinding and scraping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rafter E farm branded recently with help of others</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 12:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles When the Rafter E branded recently, a bunch of us went out to help. It’s a badge of pride to have worked your way up the branding ladder. As a kid, you flank the calves; you grab them, throw them and hold them down. This is conducive to abrasions, muscle strain, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do you sell manure?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 12:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles Emily’s dilemma was obvious: how do you sell manure? Since she fell in love with Dewey Decker, she could think of nothing less than spending her life with him and embracing the fertilizer business whole hog, so to speak. Emily Stickles has never done anything halfway. In her job with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emily tells Dewey to capitalize on good things a bit more.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles “I don’t know about all this, Honey,” Dewey said. “It sounds pretty complicated. The way it is now, I go shovel manure into my pickup, drive to someone’s garden, and … safely … use the dump bed of the truck to put it on the ground. I get paid by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bahdziewicz clan gather for lunch at mule barn.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles The Bahdziewicz clan trooped into the Mule Barn for lunch the other day, happily and noisily as only eight Americans totally in love with spring can do. The patriarch of the clan, Abraham Lincoln Bahdziewicz, led the way to a large round table and seated his wife, Sally, before pointing to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doc, Dewey and Emily have serious talk.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles We were a bit perplexed … stunned, really … when we poured into the Mule Barn truck stop coffee shop at the crack of dawn and saw our fertilizer mogul, Dewey Decker, in earnest conversation at a booth with his girlfriend, Emily Stickles, and they had papers on the table wedged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irma is a bona fide egg-laying member of sorority.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles Irma has it figured out. She’s a bona fide, egg-laying member of the “Production Red” hen sorority and she knows her rights. This is really remarkable when you consider the braincase of your average barnyard chicken is wedged between some feathers and those big expressionless eyes and has about the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Town says goodbye to Ol&#039; Marsh.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles We buried Marshall Sprack last Saturday, and we will miss him. Ol’ Marsh was the cheerful old-timer who could be seen each day walking his two tiny dogs around the neighborhood. He always had a smile and wave for everyone. He was a very private guy, however. We all knew him, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old coot has wisdom corralled for rainy day.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles It occurred to me the other day just what a blessing it is to be a grandfather. The children think we’re all powerful, a fount of knowledge and wisdom. Then they turn three … We could all use coot lessons. Yes, the enigmatic old coot in every small town like ours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you feel the spring itch coming on?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles Do you feel that itch coming on? It’s time, you know. See the kids out flying kites? That’s a sign. See little green bladelets in the lawn. That’s a sign, too. It’s almost full spring, and that itch tells us it’s time to do something. This is when we need to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dud decides to write Celtic music</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles I believe I’ll write some Celtic music,” said Dud one morning at the world dilemma think tank down at the coffee shop. “I’ve been studying it.” I didn’t know you were Celtic,” Steve said. I’m not, but I do get occasional bouts of depression and that qualifies me. I’ve thought about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dud goes for walk through town</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles The weather warmed up the other day. On the weekend, where it would do the most good. And Dud Campbell dressed warmly and went out for a walk. His eyes saw our town, the old, dead, brick drugstore on the corner with the clock that hadn’t worked since the invention of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windy gives his version of history</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles When Windy walked into the Mule Barn during that cold snap last week, we knew he was getting frantic for an audience. He has a hard time getting us to listen to his version of history, his notions of what was going on now, and his prognostications of the future of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pincus gives out free love advice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles In the week before Valentine’s Day, Marvin Pincus had two new customers for his (free of charge, of course) love advice and fly-tying consultation services. He tied up a midge for one client, a salmon streamer wrapped in lead for another, and wished them well. This was his busy time, of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think tank members possess gray hair</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles The bonafide members of the Mule Barn truck stop’s philosophy counter and world dilemma think tank adjourned early Saturday to reconvene at the top of Geezer Hill. That wasn’t its real name, of course. It didn’t have a real name. It wasn’t much of a hill, either. More like a twenty-foot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pop Walker walks out of retirement home</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles When Pop Walker sneaked out the kitchen door the other day, it affected all of us. He’s been a resident of the Rest of Your Life retirement home for several years now. He still remembers who said what during combat in Europe, but has a hard time remembering if he’s had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Herb goes looking for the latest farmers almanac</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles It was Herb who discovered it. He went into the Read Me Now bookstore to ask Sarah if she had the latest Farmer’s Almanac (he always plants vegetables in the bowels of something) and found she had hired a Santa’s helper to talk to the children. Well, that’s good,” Doc said. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mrs. Richardson gets dolled up for trip to city</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles Mrs. Richardson doesn’t often go to the city, but Ardis saw the ad in the big daily paper for the singles group and which church they used for meetings. Mrs. Richardson got all dolled up, and she didn’t forget to take the “magic” fishing fly Marvin Pincus tied for her. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dud up early for opening day of deer season.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles Coffee always tastes perfect before daylight on the opening day of deer season, Dud Campbell thought as he sat in near-total darkness in his kitchen. He was being extra quiet so as not to awaken Anita. Turning on a flashlight on the kitchen counter, he wrote: Honey, I’ll be up Pine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morning is great time for a stroll.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpotts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles Sometimes it’s good to just walk around slowly and quietly and look and think. This morning was one of those times. I didn’t get mildly out of breath the way Doc wanted me to, but just strolled comfortably. There was what we still call the old drugstore, there in faded brick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resident cowboys enjoy morning coffee.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpotts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles Ahhh! Coffee!” said our resident cowboy, Steve, raising his cup at the philosophy counter. “Let’s raise our cups to whichever Brazilian came up with this stuff.” Very slowly, Herb Collins stood with his cup of coffee there in the midst of culture and education at the Mule Barn truck stop. Actually, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dud awfully quiet while reading Valley Weekly Miracle.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 13:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpotts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles Dud was awfully quiet all through the daily dissemination of anything on page one of the Valley Weekly Miracle, which wasn’t like him at all. Just sucked down caffeine and silently shook his head now and then. Anita okay, Dud?” Oh … sure, Doc.” You okay?” He nodded, then looked up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Herb takes Halloween to its extremes of horror and fantasy.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpotts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles To look at Herb Collins, you wouldn’t think he was like that. A nicer, kinder guy you never met. But for one evening each year … one little slice of time … he’s downright diabolical. Every small town has one, of course. There is always that one person who takes Halloween [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fall puts on its best for the world to see.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpotts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles This is the polished time, the pinnacle of life. This is fall, when everything puts on its best for the world to see, and that makes it special. The sultry heat of summer has passed, and in its place we have cool mornings when the tiny snap of winter’s promise briefly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve and Ol&#039; Snort take ride up mountain.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpotts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles Steve finished the ride up the mountain on Ol’ Snort and just sat there in the saddle, looking at his cabin for several minutes. Each board had been personally nailed in place, and the epicenter of his delight, of course, was the turret. After stabling Snort and feeding him, Steve went [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It was like buzzaards circling the body.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles It was like buzzards circling the body. The Jones kid, Randy, was out in the Mule Barn parking lot with the hood up on his car. He was staring down into it as a first-time parachutist would look out the airplane door. You never quite knew for sure what lay ahead. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lady visits Fly Tying Love Center.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles The car pulled up in front of the sign that said “Fly Tying Love Center.” Marvin lifted the magnifying lenses above his head and got up from his fly-tying bench and walked to the front room. He looked out the window at the woman staring at his sign. Do you know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The search is on for Jenkin&#039;s Cabin.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country   Slim Randles   We all know that someone will find Jenkins’s cabin. Someday. Oh, it’s up there in those hills somewhere. We all know that.   It’s become a friendly object of conjecture and speculation. No one living has seen it, as far as we know. Jenkins himself died quietly when he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The wisdom of age</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 10:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Becky Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a pay­off, Doc told us, for get­ting the aches and pains of old age. Doc should know. We have it on good author­ity that he is actu­ally older than a flat, brown rock. “A pay­off?” Steve said. Steve’s an old cow­puncher who has col­lected hurt places for a long time now. He kinda [...]]]></description>
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