Life on the Blue Highways

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August 18, 2014.Reading time 6 minutes.

There are perhaps a dozen spots, each with electricity, set right next to a gem of a baseball field, the home of the Lyons Lions. It’s 350’ to dead center, with dugouts and a dark green batter’s eye…. There’s a community dump station and a potable water source, plus ample shade. You could stay there for up to two weeks, but ‘Hey, Toto: We are in Kansas.”

Cabin Fever

May 6, 2013.Reading time 3 minutes.

On May 2 and 3 the weather broke records all over Kansas, including Lawrence. The new temperature record is 43 degrees, both days, and that’s not a Low, it’s a High. The old record predates me, going back to May 2 & 3, 1944. The old recorded lowest High for these days had been 44 […]