That did not stop him from daily serenades. As in everything else he did, he did so at full tilt. He sang at full volume. He's been gone a year and a half now. My dad was a larger-than-life figure, ...

There, I declared it. Crates of sweet corn, piles of tomatoes, peppers, root crops and melons. Unwanted things are in abundance as well, such as weeds and more weeds, box elder bugs and the recent ...