Bit of a shock the other day. I was watching a very old country music show on You Tube. (Yes, I do that sometimes.) June  Carter (later Johnny Cash’s wife) commented on the fact that three of the male singers on the show had made a Western movie for Hollywood. The rest of us here, she said, are jealous of them “having all that fun ridin’ horses and shootin’ Indians“.

Esther, of course, has  as many stories as I to tell, and here I turn the column over to her to share one with you:

If my old oak dining room table could talk what a tale it could tell.

Does God have laws about towels? Esther and some friends were in a ZOOM conversation recently and were talking about folding towels. No doubt that subject was exciting enough on its own. They decided there were three acceptable ways to accomplish the task. But one lady broke ranks, she declared there was only one approved way--God’s way--to do it. Whether Catholics and Protestants agree on the acceptable method wasn’t made clear.

I hope by the time you read this  the terrible cold spell  I’m under as I write (New Year’s Eve) will be gone. A news story today tells me the air is so cold across the prairies it can be seen from space. That’s a new one for me. I thought the only things that can be seen on earth from space were the Great Wall of China and Esther’s Christmas light extravaganza when  on our acreage. The temperatures dropped so low and the Omicron variant went so high we didn’t know if we were going to freeze to death or if Covid would get us first.

I haven’t made New Year predictions for many years, people laughed at them and that hurt my feelings. But after much careful and intense study I have now come up with some forecasts that I think you’ll agree are credible, fascinating and, perhaps, brilliant. OK, fairly good at least. Here they are, news headlines  I expect to see in 2022.