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The onion calendar

I'd just pulled up to the post office to mail a couple of packages when Delbert Eszlinger called to wish me a Happy New Year from his ranch seven miles northeast of Ashley.

After we bragged about the size of our snowdrifts for a while, I asked him about the famous onion calendar he and Donna do every New Year's Eve, which predicts moisture for the coming year.

The way it works is you slice an...