If anyone ever wonders if they’ve moved to a small town, they have only to open to page three of the local Daily News and Planet and check out the police blotter. Here are some of my favorites from the last week:
Thursday
12:38 Two cups of yogurt were thrown at a patrol car from Gannon Hall.
3:58 A [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 24, 2008
Police Blotter
October 24, 2008
End of Summer
Ok, the leaves are falling right this very minute. The rowan trees have turned their bronzy green, rust and gold beneath their red berry ornaments and the maples are ablaze. But summer actually didn’t end until today, October 23. I filled a bowl with homemade granola, spooned on the Mountain High yogurt and sliced the last [...]
October 11, 2008
Planning for hard times
Tomorrow is an open house in Beanspore, WA. You should all come. I’m thinking, with the economy the way it is, and given the location, it’s very likely NO ONE will come. Ordinarily, the Love of my life would be hosting the year’s big event, but he has to show houses, so I’ve been elected. [...]
October 9, 2008
Strange Juxtaposition
So, the Love of my life was reading to me from one of the online investment sites for which he pays large subscriptions and I was knitting. Purl three, knit two, purl two, c2b, purl three…. We were sitting in our well-lighted, warm and cheerful living room, well fed and listening to Evening Classical on [...]
October 9, 2008
Personal/Not
This is a personal note to someone I don’t know. So I guess it’s not technically “personal”. On the first day of my blog, you kindly greeted me and wished me well. I freaked out because I didn’t recognize your user name (included “jim”), so I got rid of you without thinking. Now, I’m getting [...]
October 5, 2008
Wish You Were Here
It’s a drizzly Saturday morning. The locals are driving around with their lights on and their windows up. They don’t seem to be in any hurry. Stalwarts have made their way to the farmer’s market in their jeans and hooded jackets,….. cloth bags slung over their shoulders, laden with new crop apples, red chilis, striped [...]
October 3, 2008
Torn
I know the house of representatives is about to sign on to the four hundred page ‘bailout’ of their own government boondoggle. I know that hidden in those pages are even more ways of spending my money–ways that have nothing whatsoever to do with bailing anything out. More bridges to nowhere. Hundreds of bridges to [...]
