Well, the knock-down drag-out season of wishing, wanting, needing, demanding, and “I know best” attitudes (and that’s just the department heads), otherwise known as budget time, is once again upon us.
Good things come in small packages. This is the idea that makes an engagement ring box so identifiable. It explains the reemergence of cupcakes as a popular dessert.
Once again, July 20th comes and goes. I find it inconceivable and sadly familiar that America still fails to embrace the idea of a “Moon Day” holiday to honor, celebrate, and remember that “giant leap for mankind” offered by the small steps of Neil Armstrong in 1969.
Open Farm Day is a statewide annual event that this year occurs on July 21st; it is also a fabulous idea. Nowadays, the whole world eats, but only a few of us have the honor of generating foodstuffs for the rest of the population.
If you are of a “certain age,” you remember Euell Gibbons as a kind of guru of edible plants. Even if you did not purchase his well-illustrated books to stalk your own wild asparagus, you may remember his stint as an actor in an advertisement for a particular breakfast cereal — “Ever eat a pine tree?
Sometimes it’s hard to take the summer off. Due to the number of people who have questioned me about recent conversations at council regarding councilor’s compensation and last week’s letters to the editor, I decided to come in from the sunshine and go back to the keyboard.
Many drivers are probably wondering what is happening to the south end of Main Street this year. Last year this end of Main Street underwent some construction to prepare it for a paving project that is going to take place this summer.
Small children go through a stage in which any change requires a cautious approach … ”OK. You investigate. I’ll watch … just to make sure nothing awful is going to happen.”
Much of the information provided in the last Farmers Market column may seem like ancient history to current consumers, in spite of the truism that “failing to learn from history is to be doomed to repeat it.”
In my job, I tend to read a lot and I just read the article that follows about economic development in rural America.
