For the second time this week it rained at work but I got none at home. It is supposed to rain twice next week. Hopefully the storm track will drop about ten miles.
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Cool down
Summer may be finally over as high temperatures will drop into the 80s early next week. It hasn’t rained here for over three weeks. Hopefully that will change tonight as storms are expected in the area. We got some at work Tuesday morning but none of it fell here at home just 10 miles awayContinue reading “Cool down”
CCC Centennial
This year is the 100th anniversary of Coffeyville Community College. Except for 1924 and during World War 2, CCC has had a football team for each of those seasons. In those early days colleges scheduled games against whoever they could find. In that inaugural season they played six games. Three were against high schools, oneContinue reading “CCC Centennial”
Sunflower State
Kansas is known for sunflowers. They are not evenly distributed throughout the state. Northern Kansas has fields of wild sunflowers, while in southeast Kansas they have been a rare sight. In the 15 years I have lived in my current house this is the first year sunflowers are growing in the right of ways. TheseContinue reading “Sunflower State”
Holiday ghost town
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Working on Labor Day
I always found it ironic people celebrated Labor Day by not working. For the first half of my working career I did exactly that. Most of the last 20 years I have had to work on Labor Day and all holidays that fell on Mondays. This is my fourth year in a row I haveContinue reading “Working on Labor Day”
Weeding out the help again
The good news this holiday weekend is groceries are getting to the store. The bad news is we don’t have enough people to get them on the shelf. We lost yet another person this week. She had barely been here a month and in addition to missing several days managed to fall asleep at workContinue reading “Weeding out the help again”
High School football doubleheader
There has been quite a bit of talk about the shortage officials in high school sports, especially in football. Some areas in Kansas have had games rescheduled because of a shortage of officials, but not in southeast Kansas. Tonight presents a unique opportunity to watch two games in one day. Altoona-Midway hosts Chetopa in aContinue reading “High School football doubleheader”
Happy Turd Day
Tomorrow is September 1, the day major league baseball teams can call up additional players from the 40 man roster to the majors. These players were called turds as in “turd, carry my bags.” “turd, go shag some flies.” because they were considered lower than rookies. It was a great deal for the turds becauseContinue reading “Happy Turd Day”
Spring out again
For the second time in less than a year the spring by my house has run dry. I have not been there for two weeks and it was a trickle then. It has not been flowing for most of that time because the pool of water below the pipe is gone and the exposed groundContinue reading “Spring out again”
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