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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 15:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 county, she has kept [...]]]></description>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“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 it a lot. Maybe [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 mankind. But it was [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 course. He knew another [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 elevation. The youngsters called [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 breakfast. The call went [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Twas the morning after Christmas, and all through the Mule Barn truck stop’s philosophy counter … “Happy Boxing Day!” said Herb, settling in and flipping his cup to the upright and fillable position. “Boxing Day?” said Steve. “It certainly is,” Herb said. He’s like that … a lot. We looked at each other. Doc put [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slim Randles   ‘Twas the morning after Christmas, and all through the Mule Barn truck stop’s philosophy counter … “Happy Boxing Day!” said Herb, settling in and flipping his cup to the upright and fillable position. “Boxing Day?” said Steve. “It certainly is,” Herb said. He’s like that … a lot. We looked at each [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. “Maybe [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  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 solidity on the [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 with a wistful, philosophical [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 in, built a fire [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 her, Marge?” “Mrs. Richardson. [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are some who say Jim Albertson, our school principal, sometimes goes a bit too far, but when asked, they can’t really say why. Ask one of the students at the school about “Mr. A.” and they’ll tell you in a whisper that he’s everywhere … and knows everything. Just yesterday, one of the school’s [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 15:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hassled, red-faced man cruising the neighborhood Saturday morning in the pickup truck is good ol’ Bert, of course. It’s a Saturday in summer, which means only one thing in our part of the country – yard sales. That’s why the charming lady riding next to him, his wife, Maizie, was wearing a big grin. [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the world is hot and my skin is fried, scratching from the constant dry, let the clouds boil up, boil up high, and then shade the earth with the darkening sky and bring the secrets and the smell of rain. The coolness and the blessed rain, again. Our land is brown but blessed, stressed [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[“One of these days,” said Pete, out behind the sale barn where he works, “I’m going to be elected emperor, and then, by smash, I’ll change everything around.” Now several of us from the Mule Barn coffee shop’s philosophy counter were out back there with Pete to look at an Angus bull that he thought [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slim Randles   There are so many things to consider when writing a book, Dud thought. Sometimes, as now in the middle of a hot summer night, he wondered how anyone actually finishes a book. The odyssey of his writing passion, tentatively called “Murder in the Soggy Bottoms” by him and “The Duchess and the [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The closed-season school board meeting was called to order half an hour late by its chairman, J. Buckdancer Alcott, because the board members saw Windy Wilson sitting in the audience. Windy had no children, and he sure as sugar wasn’t a teacher, but he could talk. And he was patiently biding his time. Despite [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Amazing,” Dud said out at the corrals the other day. Bill and I looked at him a bit strangely, because there were just two horses in the corral and neither one of them had been amazing since Ronald Reagan moved to Washington. “What’s amazing, Dud?” “Kids. What they’re doing today is just amazing, compared to [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It started out as one of those mid-June, lazy kind of Sunday mornings … the kind where you wish the Valley Weekly Miracle had a Sunday edition just so you could read the funnies. At the Fly Tying Love Center, also known as Marvin and Marjorie Pincus’s house, it was a time for toast and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Country</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Ain’t nothing in the world dumber’n a horse,” said Dud, pulling up his chair at the Mule Barn truck stop’s philosophy counter. “I swear they have just enough brains to walk and breathe at the same time.” Steve, the full-time professional cowboy of the outfit, looked over at Dud, who was part-time at best. “Ol’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Country</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 16:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Ain’t nothing in the world dumber’n a horse,” said Dud, pulling up his chair at the Mule Barn truck stop’s philosophy counter. “I swear they have just enough brains to walk and breathe at the same time.” Steve, the full-time professional cowboy of the outfit, looked over at Dud, who was part-time at best. “Ol’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Country</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know, it isn’t always easy being a crossing guard for the kids. It especially isn’t easy when you’re an old crossing guard, and Martin is old. One of these days we’ll find out he discovered fire, I think. This isn’t meant as a slight, because there are few people around here who don’t treasure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Country</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 14:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The newly-formed love firm of Dewey Decker and Emily Stickles (she of the incredible cheekbones and watchful county eye) began yet another sensation here in the valley. Ever since Dewey told Emily he was actually in the manure business and not just enamored of the stuff itself, and ever since Emily admitted to Dewey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Country</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone has his own favorite spot on Lewis Creek, I guess. Some of us favor the swimming hole below Miller’s old place, with its rope swing and the kids who frolic there on hot summer days. For Doc and Dud, it’s the big race below the rocks where the huge lunker trout lives. All our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Country</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Down at the sale barn Saturday, the think tank had coagulated there with coffees to go to celebrate spring. Doc and Dud had their dogs with them, while Bert and Dewey and Steve went stag. Dud tried to start a conversation, but the loudspeaker soon drove them outside, where they arrayed themselves on dropped tailgates [...]]]></description>
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