Chuck's Chat-Welcome to November 2024

I thought it only fitting that since we turn the clocks back an hour tonight that I’d be a day late with this edition.

Many thanks to all who helped Montgomery County Farm Bureau with another successful benefit silent auction. Your donations, contributions, and participation are greatly appreciated.

Did you enjoy the fall colors? Most of our trees here along the Northern Sycamore Urban Boundary lost their foliage during the three-day siege of 40+mph winds. At least the temperatures have fallen to more seasonal norms. The upcoming rains will probably knock a few more leaves off, but that’s ok. We desperately need the moisture. Not sure we’re ready to transform from drought to the predicted possible flood conditions, but we’ll take the precipitation nonetheless.

I was helping put away groceries today and noticed a package of “wide egg-free pasta ribbons.” In my day these were called “noodles.” I’m guessing sometime recently someone was offended by the name “noodles” and thus prompted a kinder more gentler term. Probably some noodle headed moron with nothing better to do than to stir up things that are better left alone.

Speaking of stirring things up, election day is right around the corner. You vote however you feel is right. I have my point of view, am unwavering in my beliefs, and the ballot I slip into the metal box at the Sycamore Township Hall will be marked accordingly. May the best man win.

I see that November is National Roasting Month. I know there are those who do not care for any kind of roast. As for myself, I enjoy a good beef or pork roast. Takes me back to Sundays in my early youth. I never paid attention to how it happened, but many times we’d come home from church to a kitchen filled with the aroma of beef roast with carrots and potatoes that were waiting for us in the oven. That meal would likely feed us for the next three days. And no microwave either. The old double boiler worked quite well to reheat those tasty meals. You youngsters will just have to google it to find out.

Until next month,

Chuck Voelker