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Friday, October 2, 2020

SUPER YARD SALE TODAY AND TOMORROW!

THE MAIN STREET BOUTIQUE It’s a resale shop, set up in a 12 x 14 former storeroom at The Main Street Center. Shop volunteers take donated clothing and linens home, wash & iron and bring them back for sale. People donate accessories, picture frames, vases and other décor items, craft materials for... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, October 1, 2020

HALLOWEEN IN SALKUM - 1949

Masks came from Woolworth’s or some other dime store in those days, made of some kind of fabric and stiffened in a mold using starch of some kind. This was before the age of plastic. We didn’t have TV, very few super heroes to inspire us. Trick or treaters used makeup or wrapped their faces in torn... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, September 30, 2020

I VOTED - AND GOT A FREE PEN

The line was out the door and around the building by the time I got inside on the first day of early voting. As each vote is put into the tabulating machine it is numbered. I was #130 that morning, about an hour after the courthouse opened, and there were at least 75 or 80 folks behind me. Each... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, September 29, 2020

MOONLIGHT AND RAINBOWS

MONDAY: 5:30 P.M. I was tucked up in my La-Z-Boy, crochet hook working on a new beanie, mist green and white – one of those thick ones I call chemo hats, when I noticed a sunbeam coming through the mini-blinds of the front window. It had been raining gently off and on for the past hour or two, and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, September 28, 2020

Income Taxes Paid last year

Teachers paid $7,239 Firefighters paid $5,283 Nurses paid $10,216 Donald Trump paid $750 'nuff said. Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 27, 2020

THE SUNDAY REPORT - SKIP IF YOU'RE HOPING FOR A SMILE

It seemed unseemly to me that the president joyfully made the announcement that he would replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg within hours of the sad news of her death. He already had candidates in mind - or rather his advisors did. I don't believe he has expertise about any legal expert's... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, September 26, 2020

How do you know that?

Two or three days ago I went grocery shopping during the early senior hours. The day was slightly overcast and pleasantly cool - I didn't have to fumble around with sunglasses and adjust them to the face mask. In the uncrowded store and among my peers, there weren't a lot of people going the wrong... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, September 25, 2020

Typical Tuesday - before Covid

Tuesday, Before Bingo Women friends gather at the tables to debate the vital issues of the day: ü What the grown-up kids are Doing Not doing ü Failures of The Establishment ü Vagaries of the weather ü Someone’s recovery process ü All the “ain’t it awful” possibilities ü Remember when… Kenny, who... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 24, 2020

SOMETHING MY SON WROTE - FOUND IN MY FILE

It was beautiful here today. While walking Kaylee on a bike trail through the woods earlier this evening, I was thinking that the quality of light filtering through the trees was reminiscent of sunsets seen when visiting friends and family in Key West. As I was walking and thinking along those... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, September 23, 2020

JUST WHEN SHE THOUGHT NOBODY UNDERSTOOD...*

Outsider? It was a big surprise to find such lonely thoughts had crossed the mind of a great poet, renowned and revered, introduced by Mrs. N., who stood at the front of the class and bore the brunt of our boredom with po-e-try most of which was beyond me, beyond my poor comprehension. Such study,... Sign in to see full entry.

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