BENTON COUNTY — As I scan the paper this morning, I read about Petrino, Judge Karren and the mother that took a child to the scene of a crime. Here I sit reading about someone else’s downfall. Then I remember raising my eye sight just in time to see the stoplight at Avoca turn red as I went under it. Also, after dealing with a rude clerk at the drive-through window and I pulled out to the street, I realize she’s given me 30 cents too much change, so I pull on out into traffic. Then I think about the saying, “If you live in a glass house, don’t throw rocks.”
If I were rich and famous, I would be “ground meat” for reporters! So, I better just go on to reading the lovelorn column, editorials and funnies (I was told last week that those are calledcomics) and think, “There but for the grace of God, go I.”
Two outdoors men told me to be very careful of copperheads this year.
They had a good hatch-out after a mild winder. Another person overhearing that conversation added ticks were bad this spring.
The barn Tom cat looked terrible this morning. His ear was torn, he was dirty, had matted hair and very thin. I asked him where he’d been, before I realized that that was his business and none of mine. But, as I petted him and fed him, I suggested he take a few days off and recuperate.
It was two or three years ago that I began to worry about my short-term memory. It isn’t any better or worse, so I suppose I wasted my time worrying, but I have started writing everything down. A friend tells me I’m just making my brain cells lazy by doing that. I prefer to think that I’ve been so many places, seen so many things, heard so many stories, that I used up most of my brain cells, and the few I have left, I’ll ration them out and write things down to preserve them.
Some more of those questions with no good answers. Why do we curse the deer and then put up plastic ones in our yard?
Why do we speak so slowly when recording our answer machine greeting and then speak so quickly when leaving someone a message?
I have a choice of five interesting things to do this weekend and I choose to sit on bleachers and watch ball games. I figure I’ll get old some day and not be able to do that anymore! I better do it while I’m still young!
Also, who designed athletic gear for football and baseball players to wear white pants? They probably didn’t have to do their own laundry.
I knew we needed rain but I saw how dry it was while watching Conner and his daddy planting a tree furnished by Carroll Electric.
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Editors note: Edith Lammey has been a resident of the area for nearly 40 years. She can be contacted through The Times at 451-1196 or [email protected].
Opinion, Pages 4 on 05/02/2012