On Being Neighbors

It's not as old-fashioned as you think

There’s a farmer with a new house and huge machine shed about halfway between our place and Tipton, the county seat 15 miles away. A couple of years ago, his shed got hit by a tornado. For a year, busted joists and twisted metal lay strewn across the yard, exposed to the elements. When I drove by, I could see an interior wall that kept half of it still …