FRIDAY ALREADY?

We woke up to another gorgeous day! The temperature

fools you though because it looks warm but overnight

the neighbor's roof developed a bit of frost. It warms

up beautifully during the day and the part time

people are really pouring into town now.

It's funny because one of the ways you can tell

them apart is A) they are naturally tanned and

B) they are always in the grocery store lines

asking for something that isn't available.

Case in point: A tanned man in creased slacks

was holding up the entire line at the store by

insisting that there HAD to be at least one

piece of blah-blah-blah cheese in this

building. I say blah-blah-blah because

I have no idea what he was asking about.

It's not like we don't have cheese, we have a

lot of cheese. In fact, the deli case has some

pretty weird sounding cheese in it that did

not come from this country.

Plus I saw a man in the store last night

with a pomeranian under his arm.

Now that is one of my pet peeves, sorry.

I go into the grocery store for food and

the last thing I want are your dog's

cooties floating around my food. Blech.

Can't they sit in the car and wait for

you like all of the other canines?

Oh, and another tell-tale sign that you

are a visitor. Camo. Believe it or not,

head to toe camouflage is not what

people wear here everyday.

I saw a woman yesterday that had the

entire outfit, from her safari hat

to her hunting boots, all completely

covered in camo. And the reflector

sunglasses added the perfect touch.

I don't know if she was hiding from

someone or if she thought there was

going to be a grizzly walking downtown,

but she definitely caught my attention.

This morning:

Our older daughter worked all day and then went out

and split all the wood my brother gave us from the trees

in his yard. Our younger daughter went to school all

day and then went and worked with my husband at

his job site. I love ambitious kids, don't you?

Speaking of the job site, my husband was replacing windows

on a very old house. He pulled one of the original windows

out and there was a paper rolled up underneath it as

a shim. He unrolled it and it is an original newspaper

from Seattle in 1938. Look at the headline:

We are unrolling it slowly so it doesn't fall apart!

The beginning of the wedding order that is going by

plane out to a village; fish cookies for the groom:

Back down to the kitchen--Happy Friday!