Nature Corner/Storybook Room - Catkin Caterpillar

   Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning 5/9/26

Uncle Bob Devine gets a little visit from Clarabel the catkin caterpillar. Catkins are the long, stringy bundles of tiny blossoms that grow on birch, oak and willow trees in the spring. Clarabel and other catkin caterpillars disguise themselves like those tree blossoms to hide from preditors. These caterpillars and other animals eat catkin blossoms for food, but the blossoms help Clarabel change to look more like the catkin blossoms. In summer, Clarabel will turn brown like the branches she lives on. 

Now let Clarabel finish her delightful story of God's design for catkin caterpillars.

https://moodyaudio.com/products/clarabel-catkin-caterpillar

RB109 The Man Who Lost God

  Our RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning, May 9, 2026, is a strange, Old Testament style mystery:

RB109 The Man Who Lost God

Bill's rangers spot large campfires on the top of Razorback Ridge. Bill, Stumpy, and Gray Wolf go to investigate. They find what appear to be animal sacrifices like sacrifices in the Old Testament. No one is sure who is doing this and why. At the same time the wealthy Thompson family send out letters searching for their lost son. Bill has his hands full with two mysteries at once!

It appears as though RB108 The Wrong Valley and RB109 are both stories of men who have lost God, each in their own way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6v3aedPUFk

RB116 The Deadly Laundry Basket

  RANGER BILL for early Saturday morning , May 9, 2026:

RB116 The Deadly Laundry Basket

Bill gets a phone call from Sergeant Jim Donato of West Grove, IL. Jim's neighbor was bitten by a poisonous snake and is barely clinging to life. The snake was hiding in a laundry basket sitting in her garage. Bill thinks a rare plague of swamp rattlers has invaded the town. Bill and Henry fly to West Grove to try to deal with the threat. Then a child is bitten and the town begins to panic. What can the fellas do to protect West Grove from panic and this deadly menace? (A list of the RANGER BILL cast and crew is given at the end of this show.)

https://oldtime.radio/episode/ranger_bill-the_deadly_laundry_basket

RB211/212 Muscle and Prayer parts 1/2

   Ranger Bill for Thursday and Friday afternoons (5/7/26 and 5/8/26) is

RB211 Muscle and Prayer (part 1)

Frenchy DeSalle fears no one and nothing. But the huge, strapping French Canadian logging foreman, has gone out of his mind with fear. Frenchy and his loggers find a cougar and a bear, both crushed to death. Frenchy knows these are the calling cards of the one man he fears, "The Bear." Who is this Bear? Why does Frenchy fear this man so? And what has happened to Frenchy's faith? Frenchy's boss calls for the one man who may be able to help Frenchy - Chief Ranger Bill Jefferson.

https://archive.org/details/ranger-bill-adventures/RB211Muscle+and+Prayer+1.mp3

RB212 Muscle and Prayer (part 2)

Frenchy DeSalle and Boris the Bear want to fight to the bitter end, so Bill jails both of them until they cool off. Boris finally cools down and agrees to leave town, and Frenchy returns to work. But both men still harbor much pain and anger. Frenchy prays for an end to their feud while Boris depends on whiskey for strength. How will the Lord answer Frenchy’s prayer?

https://archive.org/details/ranger-bill-adventures/RB212-Muscle+and+Prayer+2.mp3

RB210 One Million Years Ago

  RANGER BILL for Wednesday, 5/6/2026, should leave you guessing and scratching your head:

RB210 One Million Years Ago

Huge LIVE dinosaurs are being seen in the Badlands at night and are scaring folks out of the Badlands. Conrad Vlandingum and his assistant Morgan are digging up dinosaur bones in the Badlands, but Bill doubts that they are real archaeologists. Vlandingum and his assistant are the only people who aren't afraid of these dinosaur sightings. Bill intends to find out how extinct dinosaurs have suddenly come to life.

This is another "new" Ranger Bill story that hasn't been aired in recent years. Enjoy!

https://archive.org/details/ranger-bill-adventures/RB210-One+Million+Years+Ago.mp3