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Friday, July 9, 2021

THE NOSY NEIGBOR REPORT: 7-9-2021

Catching Up: A weekend ago a crew showed up to put a new roof on the house and garage next door. They worked from 7:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. for two and a half days, stripping off the old roofing, patching some weak places, and installing a nice dark asphalt shingle. As I watched from time to time,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 8, 2021

THE STRUGGLE FOR HEARTS AND MINDS:

Dora and Donnie is good country people that live a bit south and west of here. They been listenin' to all that malarky on the tee-vee about how ever'body needs to step up and get vaccinated against the Covid. But his buddy in the militia told Donnie the truth: it's a known fact the government has... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 7, 2021

THIS 'N THAT

The tropical storm/hurricane known as Elsa has come and gone from the Tampa area, near where my daughter lives. Other than losing a limb off her mango tree - and having to rescue half a dozen not quite ripe mangoes and a brief power outage, no troubles - the water didn't rise as they'd worried... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, July 6, 2021

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GRANDMA PATCH

Woke up this morning with the idea for writing my obit - it's an exercise recommended for writing groups like the Write Your Own Story program with which I was formerly associated. I was going to start with Grandma Lucy and her first love, Grandpa Bert, who left her a widow with five young children... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 5, 2021

MISS KITZ

7-5-21 Miss Kitz had a rough start in life. She was the unwanted offspring of a working farm cat. Their owner took her as soon as she was weaned and near dusk one December evening, dropped her in a box near the university exit from Route 143. She climbed out of the box, mewing and lost, and was... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 4, 2021

ANOTHER THING --

Bumping into Mrs. Luan at the grocery store was also a reminder of how lucky I have been to get to know so many newcomers to this country. We moved to an outback village during the last six weeks of my 6th grade school year - from a bustling and progressive place where all kinds of people lived,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, July 3, 2021

Catching up in Aisle Nine

7-2-21 At the grocery store this morning I bumped into a woman I’d seen many times at the Main Street Center when I was working the front desk as a volunteer. This little Chinese woman seemed familiar to me then, but since she was there for an exercise class and I had a phone to answer, we didn’t... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 2, 2021

ANNIVERSARY '61 - ON GETTIN' ER DONE

It's a perfect day for a getaway, clear and sunny and mild. Let's lighten our load on the Great River Road and forget about stuff for a while. Or maybe a latte at Sacred Grounds that coffee shop up there on Main to share an old story of yesterday's glory and forget about dodging the rain. Let's chat... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 1, 2021

THE AMAZING ADVENTURE OF A GOLDEN GIRL IN TRAINING

MariEllen was in the fourth grade when she became famous at GoodEnough school as a tough girl. There was an incident where she was called to principal’s Jones’ office. Miss Jones was a single lady of a certain age, who’d made the school her mission and the staff and students her family. She was... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 30, 2021

COFFEE WITH A GOLDEN GIRL

A friend from the writing group at the Main Street Center had to miss the gathering of the golden girls a couple weeks back because she'd had a silly accident at home and broke the pinkie toe on her right foot - a particularly clumsy and devastating cycle of events that involved an electric cord, a... Sign in to see full entry.

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