Sunday, 8/1/10: "Death of a Farm"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/opinion/01sun2.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

Verlyn Klinkenborg is sad because a really old farm went out of business.

Sunday, 7/26/10: "Garden Time"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/opinion/25sun4.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

Special guest post from the blogger's dad!

As near as I can figure, here Verlyn grapples with Minkowski Spacetime.

I nominate his concluding sentence for 2010’s Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Blather award.

Sunday, 6/6/10: "Early and Back Home"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/opinion/06sun4.html?ref=opinion

Verlyn Klinkenborg is back on his farm! It is very early. He listens to the birds, prunes his Parrotia persica, notices a missing piston-shaft on his mower, and looks at a fencing catalog.

Welcome back, Verlyn! We missed you!

Thursday, 3/18/10: "Out of the Darkness"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/opinion/18thu4.html?ref=opinion

Verlyn Klinkenborg was driving in the dark, but then the sun came up, and then it was light.

Thursday, 3/11/10: "After You"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/opinion/11thu4.html?ref=opinion

Verlyn Klinkenborg loves driving through a four-way stop.

Monday, 3/1/10: "Sometimes the Smallest Things"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/opinion/02tue4.html?scp=1&sq=verlyn&st=cse

The Internet taught Verlyn Klinkenborg a better way to tie his shoes.

Sunday, 2/21/10: "Behind the House"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/opinion/21sun4.html?ref=opinion

There are cats behind Verlyn Klinkenborg's rented house in Claremont. There's a gray one and a long-haired one and a gray-and-white one and more -- nearly a dozen so far! He would, "of course," prefer birds.