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Like a yoke of oxen, brain hemispheres are hitched side-by-side, meeting the world head-on. If we think logically, and analytically, the left hemisphere is the dominant, nigh ox. For the more ...
A large, wooden ox yoke sits in Tom McKinney’s farm office. It’s the same one his ancestors used to clear the land they ...
The Ox Yoke Inn originally was one of 55 communal kitchens in the Amana Colonies at a time when all residents ate their meals in one of the kitchens. (Jeff Cook/QUAD-CITY TIMES) JEFF COOK ...
Fig. i is a vertical section, showing how one of the bows is secured by a spring in the hole of the yoke-beam, and figure 2 is a view of the spring which fastens the bow.
“Faith Matters” is a column that features pieces written by local religious figures. Have you ever seen an ox yoke? My late father had one. It was used to “yoke” or pair oxen together to pull a wagon ...
Like a yoke of oxen, our bilateral brain hemispheres are hitched side-by-side, meeting the world head-on. But also like the bovine, they don't always pull together.
THAN this black Bully, I never knew an ox that was an abler near wheeler —never a one that could sit back with such bull-dogged determination and put the brakes on a string of wild, wrong-headed ...
Dear Glenda: The Ox Yoke Inn, which serves family-style German and American food, opened in 1940. Anyone nostalgic for rich and hearty farmhouse cuisine will find comfort in this recipe.
Today’s item is a shoulder yoke. It is a three-and-a-half foot section of a large timber carved to fit a man’s shoulders with cylindrical projections on either end. The idea of the yoke is to enable a ...
A grass fire north of Ox Yoke Road in Anderson is causing the shutdown of one lane of northbound Highway 273 in Anderson this afternoon. The vegetation fire was reported about 3:25 p.m. near the ...
Erdt will be cooking dishes from the Ox Yoke Inn at his hotel in Germany throughout the month, and Romstadt will feature one of his recipes, a Gorgonzola and apple crusted steak with bacon wrapped ...
Out in the chilly Amana Colonies, the holiday season is always special. Garlands drape over fences, but whoa! Something isn’t the same. That giant Ox Yoke Inn sign, the one that has beckoned ...