Dear Amy: I have a beautiful, smart and wonderful 16-year-old granddaughter who is anorexic. She has been at a special care facility for the past two months and will be returning home within a couple of weeks.
I certainly hope April showers bring May flowers. I am looking forward to bright colors and lots of green. While I wait to grow things outside I am enjoying “Decorating with Plants” by Baylor Chapman for wonderful ideas about ‘what to choose, ways to style, and how to make them thrive.’ I am looking at doing more of my growing in pots, primarily to be able to bring things inside at night and protect them from deer and rabbits. “Grow Plants in Pots” by Martyn Cox provides lots of suggestions and tips for growing fruits, vegetables and herbs in containers. I am also looking at our selection of books on pruning and getting ready to prune my apple trees. I really like “The Ultimate Practical Guide to pruning and training” by Richard Bird.
Old adventurer here remembers early TV years of ubiquitous weekly western programs. Old age with cable TV makes many early programs available once again; some seem better today.
Spring leaped out at us in New York last week — suddenly one day it was 80, just like me — it sprang at us shang a lang lang as once we’d sung so we were sprung from the steel corset of winter and I took a couple of Londoners to lunch at the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station where, when I was 11, I ate my first oyster on a trip from Minnesota with my dad. I saw him eat one and so I ate one and I trace my independence back to that 1953 oyster — when you eagerly devour something that would disgust your beloved aunts, you’ve taken a step toward becoming your own person.
In 1901 Harold Westover was born in a log cabin, his father a homesteader, his mother only one of three white women living between the Sioux and Manitou rapids Indian reservations. Harold noted that at time there was a population that registered many bachelors and not many ladies. He also iterated there was no such thing as bakery bread and that folks ate pancakes and bannock which he described at a thicker pancake dough baked in an oven.
We can’t stress enough that the International Falls Area Chamber of Commerce has made good decisions in selecting Lee Grim as Citizen of the Year, Koochiching County Historical Society as Small Business of the Year and Hardee’s as Large Business of the Year.
Garrison When you look at the body camera video of Nashville cops, guns drawn, dashing into the school, throwing doors open, shouting, “Shots fired, shots fired, move!” and a line of cops moving swiftly down the hall and up the stairs and shooting the attacker, you see men doing as they were trained to do, pursue a killer and take the killer out. From first call to completion of mission: 14 minutes.
@YOUR LIBRARY April showers bring May flowers. Does that include snow showers? I am ready for green and spring and growing things.
NEARLY NORTH OF TWO Death bell rang twice, loudly and clearly in this senior camp during the past couple weeks. Hometown High School classmate's spouse and local longtime, close personal friend’s brother passed away.