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As I’ve often said, mini vacations are a favorite thing for the Seelys to do. Thus, with a few days off, we loaded suitcases in the trunk of the car and headed southwest to Branson, Mo.

Joe is outside cutting a quarter off the 1,740 pounds of beef we dressed Friday night. The boys go outside to help push the pony wagon Joe put the beef on down to the basement where we will cut up the beef.

“I wake up every morning and thank the Lord I only have rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis,” said Frances “Franki” Greiner, 63.

Many landscape plants were severely stressed by last summer’s drought, and some plants died. Make plans now to avoid further stress and injury.

Most Americans are aware that they need to save for retirement. It is a topic that is easy to brush aside to a later date because although the subject is important, it may not seem urgent. But the longer you put off some basic retirement planning, the harder it will be to catch up later.

John Mascari, 50, called the idea a message from God. During a motorcycle ride through the Rocky Mountains, he stopped at a spot 15,000 feet above sea level when the light bulb went off in his head.

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When Alexander Ralston mapped out the city of Indianapolis in the 1820s, he designed most streets at right angles that comprise the mile square, and added four streets radiating from a central circle, much like he had done when helping Pierre L’Enfant plat Washington, D.C., in the late 1700s.

M. Todd Pancake had and retains joy in construction accomplishments. “You’re taking a set of blueprints and you’re putting it in place out there in an empty field,” he said. “It has to be right. That challenge to me is really great.”

No matter how much impact the 2013 version of the Little 500 bicycle race at Indiana University had on its participants, it’s unlikely to equal the awakening it wrought for David M. Blasé in 1962.

When I see a soothing emerald patchwork of bright, brilliant yellow polka dots I perceive earth’s beauty, nutrition and generosity. Dandelions aren’t weeds; they’re divine gifts of food as medicine.

“I loved the idea of offering a space in which local artists, musicians and writers could present their work to the public and Irvington is the perfect location for that kind of venue," says Kathleen Angelone.

Recently, a Johns Hopkins publication reported on a study that demonstrated that of a million Medicare beneficiaries who had cataracts, patients who had surgery to remove and replace them had a 16 percent to 23 percent lower hip fracture risk than those who had cataracts but who didn’t have the surgery.

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